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Windows 11 Running Slow? Microsoft Wants to See Your Logs to (Maybe) Fix It

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. One complaint about Windows 11, especially for ...

Microsoft bakes one of its best security tools right into Windows 11

Sysmon was once something you had to seek out and install. Now this pro-level system monitoring tool is integrated right into ...
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KB5074105: Windows 11 asks for admin access to open Storage settings, but breaks Temporary files cleanup for some files/folders

Windows 11 KB5074105 adds a UAC prompt for Storage settings, but Settings can’t clean Windows Update files anymore.
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Event Viewer logs are missing in Windows 11

If you do not find any event log on the computer, restarting the Windows Event Log service might help. System File Checker or SFC is the built-in tool of Windows that can fix corrupt system files. It ...
Ars Technica

Best practices for using Windows event logs to monitor your environment?

I have Splunk setup with the universal forwarder installed on all of my Windows machines sending the event logs to Splunk. Collecting all of the event logs with Splunk is working great. Now I was ...
Ars Technica

Extracting Windows Event logs to a SQL Database, is this a silly plan?

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.<BR><BR>Why? So I can query them -<BR>"Show me all previous occurances of ...