# Filebeat on Windows seem to not use the registry file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-seem-to-not-use-the-registry-file/76241>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-seem-to-not-use-the-registry-file/76241 "2017-02-23T14:47:33Z")\
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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, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-windows-seem-to-not-use-the-registry-file/76241/11 "2017-03-16T15:39:36Z")

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@ruflin Another similar issue: [Duplicate events with Filebeat on windows on service restart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743/1)

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