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title: Audit Handle Manipulation (Windows 10)
description: This topic for the IT professional describes the Advanced Security Audit policy setting, Audit Handle Manipulation, which determines whether the operating system generates audit events when a handle to an object is opened or closed.
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# Audit Handle Manipulation

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

Audit Handle Manipulation enables generation of “4658: The handle to an object was closed” in [Audit File System](audit-file-system.md), [Audit Kernel Object](audit-kernel-object.md), [Audit Registry](audit-registry.md), [Audit Removable Storage](audit-removable-storage.md) and [Audit SAM](audit-sam.md) subcategories, and shows object’s handle duplication and close actions.

**Event volume**: High.

| Computer Type     | General Success | General Failure | Stronger Success | Stronger Failure | Comments |
|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|------------------|----------|
| Domain Controller | No              | No              | No               | No               | Typically, information about the duplication or closing of an object handle has little to no security relevance and is hard to parse or analyze.<br>There is no recommendation to enable this subcategory for Success or Failure auditing, unless you know exactly what you need to monitor in Object’s Handles level. |
| Member Server     | No              | No              | No               | No               | Typically, information about the duplication or closing of an object handle has little to no security relevance and is hard to parse or analyze.<br>There is no recommendation to enable this subcategory for Success or Failure auditing, unless you know exactly what you need to monitor in Object’s Handles level. |
| Workstation       | No              | No              | No               | No               | Typically, information about the duplication or closing of an object handle has little to no security relevance and is hard to parse or analyze.<br>There is no recommendation to enable this subcategory for Success or Failure auditing, unless you know exactly what you need to monitor in Object’s Handles level. |

**Events List:**

- [4658](event-4658.md)(S): The handle to an object was closed.

- [4690](event-4690.md)(S): An attempt was made to duplicate a handle to an object.

- 4658(S): The handle to an object was closed. For a description of the event, see _[4658](event-4658.md)(S): The handle to an object was closed._ in the Audit File System subcategory. This event doesn’t generate in the Audit Handle Manipulation subcategory, but you can use this subcategory to enable it.