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 ...

Having had to become a bit more involved with the Event Viewer recently it's becoming clear, pretty fast, that the viewer itself does not provide the tools necessary for proper monitoring of the ...

The Windows OS is designed to create a record of various system events by writing entries into event logs. Administrators normally access the event logs through the Windows Event Viewer. However, it's ...

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 ...

Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's covered everything from Apple to apps and crowdfunding and loves getting ...