| Zero in on critical events
By Ed Bott
Event Viewer is one of the most powerful troubleshooting tools in Windows. It's also one of the most overwhelming to use, because of the sheer volume of information it processes every day.
To cut that flood of information down to a manageable trickle of truly relevant events, use Event Viewer's built-in filtering technology to focus on only those events that Windows considers Critical.
To start, open Event Viewer (Eventvwr.msc) and select the Custom Views heading in the navigation pane on the left. In the Actions pane on the right, click Create Custom View. Click the Critical check box, and then, in the By Log section, click the down arrow and click the Windows Logs check box. Those options collectively select every event that Windows considers Critical in all five of its built-in log files: Application, Security, Setup, System, and Forwarded Events.
Click OK and change the name of your custom view from the default New View to something descriptive like Critical Events. Click OK to save the name change.
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