Running into issues with my Windows PC gets tiring fast. By the time I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), it's already too late. Looking up a cryptic STOP code might point me in the right ...

The spinning dots weren't talking, but the logs certainly were.

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 ...

Want to see your PC Startup and Shutdown History? Finding out the last time the PC was correctly turned off or booted up is the way to start troubleshooting many Windows issues. Another scenario is a ...

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 Event Viewer logs events that lead to errors. The event logs can help you understand what triggered or where exactly the issue is coming from so you can be apply the relevant troubleshooting steps ...

Windows event log files contain a treasure trove of information on server performance and operations. But they're tedious to trawl through on a regular basis, especially when you have more than a few ...

I work in tech support and often have to investigate Event Viewer logs from customer servers. I have to maintain a lab of computers with various flavors of MS operating systems just to be able to view ...

Have you ever needed to look for a certain event with the Event Viewer logs? If you did, you probably went through the normal method – opening the Event Log viewer, and performing a filter on the ...