Event 578 May Be Logged During Logoff or Shutdown (266282)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q266282

SYMPTOMS

Event 578 may be logged in the Security event log when auditing is enabled for tracking Privilege Use problems. This event is logged twice during logoff and Windows 2000 shutdown.

CAUSE

During logoff and shutdown, Csrss.exe tries to increase its priority. After it has notified all of the running processes of the shutdown, it tries to decrease its priority. Since it is running in the System context, this does not succeed and generates the audit event.

RESOLUTION

You can ignore these events because they are logged in error.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time       Version        Size     File Name       
   -------------------------------------------------------
  1/4/2001   02:30p   5.0.2195.3105   34,576    Csrsrv.dll
  1/4/2001   02:30p   5.0.2195.3105     5392    Csrss.exe

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/23/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbOSWin2000fix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB266282