Method for viewing Windows logs in Win7 system

Methods for viewing Windows logs in Win7 system

Windows logs are located in the computer-managed event viewer for storing events from legacy applications and for the entire System events.

The Windows log of Win7 system includes five categories, namely application log, security log, system log, installer log and forwarding event log.

The application log contains events logged by the application; the security log contains the system's login, the use of file resources, and events related to system security; the system log contains events logged by Windows system components; the installer log contains Events related to application installation; the forward event log is used to store events collected from remote computers.

Let's take a look at how to view Windows logs.

1. Right-click on the desktop or the Start menu's "Computer", select "Manage"; as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Select "Manage" Br>

2, then pop up is the "Computer Management" window, expand the "Event Viewer", "-" ldquo; Windows Log & rdquo;, the drop-down directory is the five types of Windows logs mentioned earlier. As shown in Figure 2

Figure 2 Windows Log

3, in the "windows log" directory, click on any of them, you can view the relevant logs. As shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 View related logs

4, in addition, can also be achieved through the control panel, roughly control panel - system and security - management tools & mdash; view event log . As shown in Figure 4

Figure 4 Viewing the event log

Windows logs are mainly provided to professionals to analyze the problems of the system and the cause of the problem. For ordinary users, Windows logs may sometimes be free. Value, and occupy C disk space. If the system runs smoothly and smoothly, it can be cleaned up for a while. Most security software and system optimization software provide Windows log cleanup function.

[Summary]: Ok, check out the Windows log to talk about this.