A Faster Way Of Accessing The Windows Event Viewer (XP)
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In a previous tip I outlined the standard way of steps for accessing the Event Viewer console. You need to open the Administrative Tools applet within the Control Panel and then double click the Event Viewer.
If you frequently access the console you may want to create a shortcut to the Event Viewer on your desktop, making it a little more accessible. To do this, right click an empty area on your desktop, point to New, and click Shortcut. When the Create Shortcut Wizard appears, type in the following path:
c:\windows\system32\mmc.exe c:\windows\system32\eventvwr.msc
in the Type The Location Of The Item field. Click Next. Type in a name for the shortcut and click Finish.
Now when you need to launch Event Viewer, simply double click the icon on your desktop.
9 Comments
KK
May 29th, 2007
at 1:38pm
Event viewer is mispelled in your post.
billy
July 18th, 2007
at 12:26pm
I usually just press (Windows Key + R) then type eventvwr and press enter.
Chris
January 25th, 2008
at 1:58pm
Don’t you just hate people that have nothing better to do than to spend their time correcting other people’s spelling and grammar?
Why don’t you people get a life?
daywalker
January 31st, 2008
at 3:44pm
@Chris
“Don’t you just hate people that have nothing better to do than to spend their time”
Some times it can be annoying, but in some cases it is useful like here for example. Due to wrong spelling, a topic might not appear among the (top) search results in a search engine although it could be very useful.
Thanks for the tip Billy
czmi
February 4th, 2008
at 5:48am
You may have a bat file also. Just open a txt file, write eventvwr and save it as anything.bat. There you go!
Sathish G G
April 15th, 2008
at 12:13am
There is a error in the posting
It is not c:\windows\system32\mmc.exe c:\windows\system32\evetvwr.msc
It is c:\windows\system32\mmc.exe c:\windows\system32\eventvwr.msc
***eventvwr.msc***
Sathish G G
April 22nd, 2008
at 12:53am
All you have to do is
Click Start >> Run >> type eventvwr and hit enter
(or)
Just press (Windows Key + R) then type eventvwr and hit enter.
…Sathish G G
Otaluke
October 10th, 2008
at 9:15am
This post was very useful.
I have a folder with common maintenance shortcuts in it.
Adding this shortcut makes it easily accessible as well as a reminder.
Thanks!
BigD
October 11th, 2008
at 8:37am
Chris, chill. KK was probably referring to the fact that the original post had an error in the spelling of the program in the shortcut (see above, others that caught the mistake). If you cut and paste this example, it fails.