How to View Windows Logs in Win7 System

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

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"

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 shows the event log.

Windows logs are mainly provided to professionals to analyze the problems of the system and the causes of the problems. For ordinary users, Windows logs may sometimes be worthless, and Take up the 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.