Windows Event Viewer works for a quick look at one local log. Once Windows events become part of your regular work, its limits cost time: multi-log investigations are awkward, remote systems are cumbersome to manage, and reusable analysis setups are limited. A dedicated tool should let you move from an alert or symptom to a repeatable investigation without rebuilding the same view every time.
Event Log Explorer comes with 3 methods of opening event log files: Standard, New API and Direct. Such an abundance of options may confuse users when choosing the method. “What opening method should I use?” – a very common question of our customers. The answer is very simple: In most cases use New API method. But what the other methods for? First, I should remind… Read More »
Update of May 18, 2020: It looks like Windows 10 1909 doesn’t have this issue. Although era of Windows XP is over, there are still a great number of PCs running this operating system or Windows 2003 Server. According to different researches, in 2018 Windows XP market share was more than 4% of all desktop operating systems. Windows 2003 Server still has more than 10%… Read More »