How to remove very old entries in Event Viewer

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How to remove very old entries in Event Viewer

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My event viewer has thousands of items, how do it trim the very old items.

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Anonymous

Hi wb2001,

Try the below steps to delete the old entries in the event viewer.

a) Open Event Viewer by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clickingAdministrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.‌ If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

b) In the Navigation pane, Click on the category for which you want to clear the entries

c) To delete logs, click Clear Log in the Actions pane.

Note: You will not be able to delete individual entry.

Monitor attempts to access and change settings on your computer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Monitor-attempts-to-access-and-change-settings-on-your-computer

Hope this helps!

Halima S - Microsoft Support.

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Hi,

Besides Halima S.'s fine advice you can use MyEventViewer to read and selectively or

totally delete the Event logs.

MyEventViewer - Free - a simple alternative to the standard event viewer of Windows.

TIP - Options - Advanced Filter allows you to see a time frame instead of the whole file -

set it to a bit before and after the time of the BSOD.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/my\_event\_viewer.html

Hope this helps.

Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.

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