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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to use Event Viewer to check for unauthorized use of a Windows computer. While Windows Event Viewer comes across as a useful tool for viewing event logs and fixing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them. Have you taken a look in the Event Viewer lately? Are you afraid to? Does it just ...

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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 ...

Printer logs enable you to keep track of print jobs on your business's printer. If, for example, you find a 100-page print job of a personal nature on your office's printer, you can find the culprit ...