ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "C:\SplunkUnive...

Getting Data In

In the Windows event stanza make sure it's
[WinEventLog:Application]
NOT
[WinEventLog://Application]
this fixed it for me

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ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "C:\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-winevtlog.exe" WinRegistryApi - RegKey::open - RegOpenKeyExW returned error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.