How To: Use the Event Viewer

Event Viewer is a Windows feature which allows you to view the event logs on a local or remote machine. This article describes how to use the Event Viewer.

Step-by-step guide

The steps are as follows:

1. Go to Windows search and type Event Viewer and click OK (or press Enter) or go to Run (by pressing Windows + R key together) and type eventvwr.mscand click OK (or press Enter). Event Viewer opens.
2. If you want to view logs, then

3. Click on the Windows Logs option on the left hand side. It displays the following options -

   1. Application - This allows you to view the logs of applications.
   2. Security - This allows you to view the security logs.
   3. Setup - Using this you can view setup logs.
   4. System - This allows you to view the system logs.
   5. Forwarded Events - Using this you can view the events written by other computers in the same network that have forwarded their events to the "collector computer".