How to Use Event Viewer

hello and welcome to our Channel today we are going to talk about the Event Viewer Event Viewer is a Windows administrative tool for troubleshooting problems it displays detailed information about specific events you can use the Event Viewer to find and troubleshoot problems in your PC there's a variety of even log files such as administrative operational analytic debug and application log files we're going to show you the techniques to use and utilize the even fewer here in this video so keep watching carefully till the end of the video now the types of the events that are displayed by The Event Viewer you will discover many errors and warnings from The Event Viewer app you may feel anxious to see so many errors occur on your PC but trust me there is nothing to worry about because the maximum of these errors are fixed by the windows itself now you need to know about these events at first before using the even viewer so I'm gonna show you how to open the Event Viewer first so click on your search bar and type event and there you have it so here's the description of the event log error The Event Viewer shows a significant problem if the data or the functionality of a program is lost and unable to load during the startup an error will be logged by The Event Viewer warning The Event Viewer does not always indicate the specific problems so sometimes it makes a log of the possible future Problem by Awana information the successfully loaded operation of applications drivers or Services is logged as information by the even fewer the success audit The Event Viewer logs a success audit when a security access attempt passes successfully as a successful event failure audit The Event Viewer logs a failure audit when a security access attempts fails as a failure event so how to use the Event Viewer for troubleshooting right so you can detect specific problems with your PC by observing the time of the event log and can identify the cause of the problem by the event ID maximum minor errors are corrected by the system automatically that's the reason why you can watch the errors but will never be able to find the problems but if you have a specific problem that you are facing with your PC and cannot find the reason behind that you surely can find it from The Event Viewer for example your PC freezes randomly right so and you are not sure why it's happening you can check the Event Viewer you look at the errors and the times and Associate them with the time when your PC froze you may find the hardware the crash that created the critical error and throws your PC you can change the hardware to fix the error you can also search for the meaning of the event guide T and learn the reason behind the error now the description about what are the functions of the event theorem the main interface of the Event Viewer has four groups custom views Windows logs application and services logs and subscriptions so the most important logs to analyze are the application security and system under the windows logs essential components for the applications to run and the events about the interface can be found inside the application tab the security features and login attempts records are restored inside the security tab all the other logs of the installed and system apps can be found inside the system tab now how can you search for the specific log so there are two ways to search for a specific log from The Event Viewer console those are the basic search and the advanced search so the basic search you can find the error warning and information using a keyword so now follow these steps that I am about to show you so expand the windows logs groups from The Event Viewer console right click on a category and click on find so type a keyword and then click on find next so for instance I'm gonna type error and click find next now here you can see the error so for the advanced search expand the windows logs just like before select a category right click on it and click on filter current log now select the possible time of the occurrence from the drop down menu named logged now there are some optional choices that you can make such as choose event sources if you want choose the task category select keywords to narrow down the result after you've done that keep the default for the user and computers and then click ok to view the filtered related logs so creating custom views expand the windows logs groups from the eventware console select a category and then right click on it and then select custom view so select the events level and logged now if it's already not selected click on by log select other optional tabs and click ok now give a name for the custom View choose where to save the log and then click ok now you will be able to use the customized view clear log history so it is not recommended to delete the Event Viewer logs as it helps to understand the health of the device but deleting logs will help you to free up more space and it will be easier to find the specific log for troubleshooting clear data follow the steps below expand the windows logs groups select a category and then right click on it and then click on clear log here you can either save and clear or just click on clear but some precautions you can save log history by clicking save and clear now you can easily use the Event Viewer to analyze the logs that occurred by the windows on your PC though it may seem a little bit overwhelming to you at the beginning but if you can find a specific log for a specific problem from this Event Viewer it will be a helpful console for you The Event Viewer will not only tell you the problems but also give you the proper Solution by giving the respective event IDs and that will be all for today thank you so much for watching see you in our next video and until then take care and goodbye

Channel: Windows Geek

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023