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I would complain more, except I have never ever gotten a useful bit of information out of the Event Log. Not once. It's so laughably useless I'm surprised any
by jandrese 6y ago
I would complain more, except I have never ever gotten a useful bit of information out of the Event Log. Not once. It's so laughably useless I'm surprised anybody even bothers anymore. Microsoft certainly doesn't.
When applications on Windows fail they never think to generate an event, not even for something as simple as a "permission denied attempting to open file 'c:\blah'". Instead it's chock full of useless noise from daemons that activate every 2 seconds to poll something and then log that everything is still ok.
- pitay 6y agoNot even Microsoft's core windows applications seem to generate a event log when it has a critical error. If you've disabled a service which part of its 'Settings' application uses, or Microsoft Store requires and it has a critical error then you get an general error message (which the error does not tell you that it requires a service running), but nothing in the event logs. So far event logs have been far more useful for things that aren't errors such as login and startup times for Windows.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWindows itself can generate logs for that! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/auditing/basic-audit-object-access https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...