Event LogsTools |
You can start Event Viewer by:
Administrative Tools Event Viewer
Computer Management System Tools Event Viewer
Under the Action menu, you can select the following:
Select this to connect to a remote computer whose event logs you want to monitor or to open an archived event log file.
Select this to display its logged events in the details pane. Double-click on an event to display additional information concerning the event.
Under the View menu, you can select:
Displays all events recorded in the log (i.e., turns off any filter you created).
Lets you create a filter to display only certain kinds of events. This is a very useful feature, as event logs tend to grow unmanageably large otherwise .
Changes the order of the events (however, it is easier just to click the Date column header in the details pane).
Lets you search a log for a particular type of event. This is a powerful adjunct feature to Filter, and it's particularly useful if you are searching for all instances of a particular event in order to gauge its frequency (which may be a measure of its seriousness).