Every time I log in to my Windows Servers, I am greeted with the Shutdown Event Tracker. I know I cleanly shutdown, restarted, or only logged off, though. This has been an issue in my lab as well as on customer networks. I wanted to see if there was an easy and reliable fix, which turns out, there is!
Open Registry Editor (regedit.msc).
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability
There are likely two keys here, DirtyShutdown and DirtyShutdownTime that are present. Simply delete these two keys and you should no longer get the Shutdown Event Tracker on subsequent logons.
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