Event Viewer and I have an understanding. It fills up with thousands of red X's and yellow triangles, and I ignore it until something visibly breaks. It's been that way since I was running Windows XP ...

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 ...

This post explains how to view or clear the Event Log in the Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) on a Windows PC. Windows 11/10 OS may occasionally throw up errors, and at such times, you may want to get a ...

Microsoft allows you to create custom views in Event Viewer on their Windows operating system to hide all the unnecessary logs and only display the ones you need. This saves a lot of time and hassle ...

I work in tech support and often have to investigate Event Viewer logs from customer servers. I have to maintain a lab of computers with various flavors of MS operating systems just to be able to view ...

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 ...

A large part of being proactive in managing your Exchange environment is knowing where your servers stand in terms of health. This section discusses various things that you need to keep an eye on to ...

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