As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

At times, the information Windows Defender or Windows Security displays is quite difficult to understand. If you use this security shield on your computer and want to comprehend all the information ...

Using the Windows Update Viewer tool is very easy and apart from viewing Windows Update history in detail and exporting data as a CSV file or a text document, there are some other features provided by ...

If something goes wrong with your PC, be it sluggish performance, slow startup issues or even frequent crashes, Windows offers a few built-in tools to know what's wrong. For instance, Task Manager can ...

Microsoft has patched an Event Viewer bug impacting Windows 11, version 24H2 customers. However, the fix will be rolled out in stages. A couple of weeks ago, we reported that following the ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

I'm testing a system that watches the main Windows logs (Application, Security, System) and alerts me when it sees a new event. The thing is, to test this properly I need to be able to manually ...