SEEK: Freeware to search/view XP's Event Viewer logs

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Franklin

Is there any freeware which lets me access XP's Even Viewer logs and
do searches and sorts and that sort of thing?

The basic Microsoft viewer is a bit too basic for what I need to do.
 
Franklin said:
Is there any freeware which lets me access XP's Even Viewer logs and
do searches and sorts and that sort of thing?

The basic Microsoft viewer is a bit too basic for what I need to do.
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What do you mean by "too basic" and what do you need to do? The existing
XP Event Viewer lets you do searches and sorts.

If you want a take a look at a command line tool:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psloglist.shtml
You can output the data to a CSV file and bring into Excel.

You could also use Win32::EventLog from perl.
 
What do you mean by "too basic" and what do you need to do? The
existing XP Event Viewer lets you do searches and sorts.
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The existing XP Event Log's search capabilty is too basic for me.
The sorts are just column sorts.

For example, I would like to be able to search the XP Event Logs for
"Avgfsh" AND "4642". Another example is to find all the event
entries which refer to a given application name such as "Irfanview".

If you want a take a look at a command line tool:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psloglist.shtml
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I am big fan of Sys Internals software but Psloglist's command line
operation is slow and it does not really do what I need.

You can output the data to a CSV file and bring into Excel.
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Sending the Event Log output to a CSV file and searching that in
Excel is much better. However my Excel 2000 does not search for
Booleans and it would be so much nicer if there was a utility which
could extract and sort the Event Log data more rapidly.

You could also use Win32::EventLog from perl.
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Unfortunately I don't know Perl so the Perl command goes way above my
head!


I was hoping there would be a freeware viewer, sorter, searcher to go
through the Event Logs quickly and easily.
 
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