Most Windows troubleshooting is guesswork—this log gives you an actual starting point.

PC World shares practical Microsoft Defender settings adjustments to enhance security and efficiency, while MUO explains how to use Windows Event Viewer to view historical records of app installations ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

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 you see the error message Event ID 903, The Software Protection service has stopped in the Event Viewer app on your Windows 11/10 PC, read this post to know how to ...

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 ...

Take advantage of the Windows Event Log to store the log data of your .NET Core applications running on Windows The Windows operating system logs data into the Windows Event Log whenever a problem ...

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 ...

Knowing who installed or removed software on your Windows computer can be helpful at times. Maybe you are trying to troubleshoot an issue, enforcing security policies, or just curious. However, ...