If you recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP, you certainly would have noticed that the new operating system is different from the old, not only visually beautiful. For example, the Event Viewer which you probably used to help diagnose problems with Windows XP, the new version differs radically from its predecessor. In this article I will discuss the new features of the Event Viewer in Windows 7.

Overview

Event Viewer is used to view information about events related to the software, security, and system errors. It allows you to manage event logs, view information about the hardware and software failures, monitor security events. In Windows XP, the Event Viewer is completely functional, but has some drawbacks, the most important of which - a wealth of information makes difficult finding the right data. However, some events are documented incompletely, and some are not documented at all. As a result, when you try to discover the cause of the problem, even experienced professionals sometimes find themselves at an impasse.

Another disadvantage is that some logs in Windows XP is stored on disk as text files, so the diagnosis can not do means alone "Event Viewer". Taking into account all this, the developers of Windows 7 were able to significantly improve the logging in the new operating system. Let's see how.

New Event Viewer

Event Viewer "for Windows 7 has been completely rewritten and now has a new user interface that simplifies filtering and sorting events, and control logging. In addition, basic diagnostics can now be directly from the Event Viewer.

Getting to the development, Microsoft has promised to tighten standards for logging, to ensure that the registration is really important events and make the information most useful for diagnosis. Event Viewer has appointed a focal point for gathering information throughout the system: using it now, you can view and data from the logs that are stored as text files on your hard drive.

Among other new features - the ability to save custom settings, with an option to log data with other computers on the network to diagnose problems that affect just a few systems, as well as the opportunity to create jobs that will be executed when certain events.