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 ...

Event Viewer is a handy tool that allows you to view and analyze detailed logs of various events on your computer. It is pretty useful when your system goes through a crash and you are trying to find ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 4, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The next time you are at a yard sale and want to buy a used computer, a quick check of the Event Viewer can tip you ...

Have you ever needed to look for a certain event with the Event Viewer logs? If you did, you probably went through the normal method – opening the Event Log viewer, and performing a filter on the ...

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 ...