This was a good chance for Microsoft to add something funny to the end of an error message.

I was trying to start the “Performance Logs and Alerts Service” on a server, and it started and then stopped immediately. I then received this error message.

“The Performance Logs and Alert service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some Services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service.”

Microsoft could have saved some words if they just said “for example, this one”. Another option would be to add “Dumb A$$” to the end of the message.

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Art, over at Incoherent Mumbling ran into this issue with WordPress and Windows Live Writer Beta, and found a fix for it. Windows Live Writer started giving him the error “Image upload not supported by weblog”, which we all know is a blatant lie!

This is something that I should keep handy, because I use Windows Live Writer Beta, and I’m sure now that people are having this problem, my computer is going to want to follow the crowd.

Art called me and asked me about it, and my suggestion, to delete the account in Live Writer and recreate it, didn’t fix it.

Good Work Art!

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