# Duplicate events with Filebeat on windows on service restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743 "2017-03-15T16:27:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743/4 "2017-03-16T17:43:43Z")

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Thanks for showing the registry before and after.

This sounds similar to another post: [Filebeat on Windows seem to not use the registry file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-seem-to-not-use-the-registry-file/76241/1)

(edit: oh, just saw you posted there too. good)

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