Windows Vista’s Event Viewer

Event Viewer is not new to Windows Vista. You can find it in earlier versions of Windows. The Event Viewer is, for the most part, a passive tool that tracks system errors and events of interest. Events can be generated by users with the appropriate authority (administrative privileges) and indeed, applications and services can generate custom errors.

In Windows Vista, you can find the Event Viewer within the Administrative Tools (click Start | All Programs | Administrative Tools). When you open the Event Viewer you will notice that the interface is very different from previous version. To locate the log files, click Windows Logs under Event Viewer (local).

The Application, Security, and Systems logs have been around since the days of NT, and serve as logs generated by applications, security events (such as logon/logoff and auditing events) and Systems events (such as driver failures).

New to Windows Vista is the Setup log and Forwarded Events log. The Setup log contains events related to application setup. The Forwarded Events log is used to store events collected from remote computers. Another new feature are Event Subscriptions. Before you can collect events from remote computers in the Forwarded Events log, you must create an Event Subscription.

Double click one of the log files to view the contents. Each event’s properties can be double-clicked for more information. You can even find more help about the event by selecting the link labeled ‘Event Log Online Help’. This is definitely a huge plus on the troubleshooting trail.

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