Powershell command can help you retrieve all software installation and removal events from the Event Log. The WinEvent option can go through the log files, filter based on source, and show the result.

The Event Viewer on Windows 11 is an application that collects system and app event logs on a friendly interface that you can use to monitor and troubleshoot problems. Also, it can come in handy to ...

Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. The tool is designed to assist in the first-response ...

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 ...

If the Windows Event Log process is taking a high CPU, disk, memory, or power usage on your computer, here are the methods to fix the issue: End the Windows Event Log task from Task Manager. Stop the ...

In brief: The Windows event log and Event Viewer are supposed to help users diagnose security issues and other problems in PCs. However, Kaspersky researchers encountered one hacker who used the event ...

I'm trying to trouble shoot a crazy installation issue installing a published app on WTS. For the life of me I cannot figure out why the Microsoft Installer keeps rolling back and the only thing I can ...

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day flaw dubbed EventLogCrasher that lets attackers remotely crash the Event Log service on devices within the same Windows domain. This ...