How I get the server I want: #1 Disabling the shutdown event trackerhttp://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/06/16/how-i-get-the-server-i-want-1-disabling-the-shutdown-event-tracker.aspxI think that the shutdown event tracker came in in Server 2003, and I'm sure that in some data centres it is a very useful tool for logging why servers were manually shut down. On a demo system, it tends to be a nuisance. Hyper-v, for example, disablesen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)