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title: Audit Security State Change (Windows 10)
description: This topic for the IT professional describes the Advanced Security Audit policy setting, Audit Security State Change, which determines whether Windows generates audit events for changes in the security state of a system.
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# Audit Security State Change

**Applies to**
-   Windows 10
-   Windows Server 2016


Audit Security State Change contains Windows startup, recovery, and shutdown events, and information about changes in system time.

**Event volume**: Low.

| Computer Type     | General Success | General Failure | Stronger Success | Stronger Failure | Comments                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Domain Controller | Yes             | No              | Yes              | No               | The volume of events in this subcategory is very low and all of them are important events and have security relevance. <br>This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so there is no recommendation to enable Failure auditing for this subcategory. |
| Member Server     | Yes             | No              | Yes              | No               | The volume of events in this subcategory is very low and all of them are important events and have security relevance. <br>This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so there is no recommendation to enable Failure auditing for this subcategory. |
| Workstation       | Yes             | No              | Yes              | No               | The volume of events in this subcategory is very low and all of them are important events and have security relevance. <br>This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so there is no recommendation to enable Failure auditing for this subcategory. |

**Events List:**

-   [4608](event-4608.md)(S): Windows is starting up.

-   [4616](event-4616.md)(S): The system time was changed.

-   [4621](event-4621.md)(S): Administrator recovered system from CrashOnAuditFail.

>**Note**&nbsp;&nbsp;Event **4609(S): Windows is shutting down** currently doesn’t generate. It is a defined event, but it is never invoked by the operating system.