Event Viewer - tool in Windows systems that allows users to inspect the event logs.
Event Viewer - tool in Windows systems that allows users to inspect the event logs.
Questions tagged [event-viewer]
353 questions
2
votes
0 answers
Log in Event Viewer while system is off
My PC were off for two days.
After two days when I checked Event Viewer, I find some Logon logs in security section.
What happened?
rick
- 1,009
- 2
- 10
- 28
2
votes
0 answers
Does "Faulting Application" in Windows Event Viewer correlate to segmentation fault in software?
A C++ application that we don't have the source code for is crashing.
The crash is being reported in the Windows Event Viewer:
More specifically, the report shows the following:
Faulting application name: SEP.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp:…
Trevor Hickey
- 36,288
- 32
- 162
- 271
2
votes
0 answers
Remove one event from eventlog (or cast EventRecord to EventLogEntry)
My code sifts through events from a remote PC to test whether there are some 6008 (unexpected reboot) events.
I'm using code like:
EventLog log = new EventLog("System",remoteMachine);
EventLogEntryCollection entries = log.Entries;
var…
Keiichi Kun
- 21
- 1
2
votes
1 answer
How to retrieve PID from windows event log?
I have a python code that uses WMI module of python to get windows event viewer logs. But I am unable to retrieve the PID of the process that generated the log.
My code :
wmi_obj = wmi.WMI('.') #Initialize WMI object and query.
wmi_query = "SELECT *…
Umang Agrawal
- 475
- 1
- 5
- 15
2
votes
1 answer
How to read event viewer log in Windows XP in C#.net
I'm using the below XML Query to read system "Turn on event" from event viewer in last 24 hours.
string query = "" +
"" +
"
Komal Mangal
- 23
- 3
2
votes
1 answer
Get event viewer logs with win api in c++
My application need to save event viewer logs to a specified directory and it has to be done with win api. Application and System logs are required.
EDIT: EvtExportLog - I found out that I can't use this function because minimal requirements are Win…
shake
- 323
- 9
- 23
2
votes
0 answers
Event Log Web Event Task Category ID
Can anyone tell me what the Task Category ID is for a Web Event used in the Event Viewer?
_eventLog.WriteEntry(eventText, EventLogEntryType.Warning, 1001, [value for web event]);
ComfortablyNumb
- 1,448
- 10
- 37
- 64
2
votes
2 answers
Filtering events in Event Viewer using a regex
I have an event log with thousands of events. I want to make a custom filter or view which shows some of them. I want to filter them using a regex (or even just simple text match) on either the entire text of the XML (as text), or on a particular…
fastmultiplication
- 2,951
- 1
- 31
- 39
2
votes
1 answer
Windows Performance Analyzer Time stamp formatting
How do i get time stamps for Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power provider from Windows performance recorder. i see Windows performance analyzer gives me a some formatted time but not the exact time stamp.Thanks in advance
madhu
- 21
- 2
2
votes
1 answer
Why will this XPath work in PowerShell but not Task Scheduler?
I'm writing an event that fires when a specific USB key is unplugged from the machine to lock it. I can run the following fine from within PowerShell with Get-WinEvent and I get the results I expect back.
*[System[(EventID=2102)]] and…
Bigsby
- 952
- 6
- 20
2
votes
0 answers
Writing event viewer logs under Applications and Services logs section
I want to write logs in Event viewer under Applications and Services logs section. I am able to write event viewer logs in Applications but not under Applications and Services logs.
Purunep
- 51
- 7
2
votes
2 answers
What's the primary use of Windows Event Viewer?
Just wondering what everybody's opinion is on the Windows Admin tool Event Viewer?
I'm writing a WCF application at the moment and have started logging errors to the windows event viewer when I handle them. I then started thinking, should I be…
ingh.am
- 25,981
- 43
- 130
- 177
2
votes
0 answers
2008 R2 Domain EvtSubscribe delays
I use the Windows EvtSubscribe API in my program that runs as a service, generally on Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers. It is registered for kerberos logon events and it's purpose is to provide single sign on for my application on the…
AlbertoK
- 21
- 1
- 3
2
votes
1 answer
How to output latin characters in Windows Event Viewer
I have a service application that have to write information in the Windows Event Viewer. It happens that it have a version in Spanish and needs to have Latin characters in the text, so when the information is written to the Even Viewer it displays…
yosbel
- 1,711
- 4
- 20
- 32
2
votes
1 answer
Logging to Event Viewer on Windows RT 8.1
I am working on an LOB (side-loading) app and I need to log events, crashes to ETW (Event Viewer logs). I see that most suggest writing own file IO wrapper.
With Windows 8.1, we have new logging capabilities in "Windows.Foundation.Diagnostics" which…
Traze
- 180
- 8