As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

Microsoft allows you to create custom views in Event Viewer on their Windows operating system to hide all the unnecessary logs and only display the ones you need. This saves a lot of time and hassle ...

Want to see your PC Startup and Shutdown History? Finding out the last time the PC was correctly turned off or booted up is the way to start troubleshooting many Windows issues. Another scenario is a ...

Using the Windows Server 2003 Computer Management Console Event Viewer snap-in Your email has been sent Windows Server 2003 admins can benefit from using the various snap-ins included with the ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

I have Splunk setup with the universal forwarder installed on all of my Windows machines sending the event logs to Splunk. Collecting all of the event logs with Splunk is working great. Now I was ...

Take advantage of the Windows Event Log to store the log data of your .NET Core applications running on Windows The Windows operating system logs data into the Windows Event Log whenever a problem ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its latest updates for Windows 10 and below cause a problem in its Event Viewer app when using Customer Views. The problem may occur for anyone who installed cumulative ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...