Event Log Explorer versions

Displays all the events that the user's Windows has registered
5.4
Oct 8, 2023
5.3
Dec 27, 2022
5.2
Oct 5, 2022
5.1
Jun 22, 2022
5.0
Dec 26, 2017
Review
4.5
Jul 24, 2015
Review
Jun 11, 2015
4.4
Jan 14, 2015
Review
Dec 18, 2014
4.3
Jul 10, 2014
Review
Feb 9, 2014
Review
4.2
Oct 5, 2013
Review
Oct 3, 2013
4.1
Oct 4, 2012
4.0
Mar 19, 2012
Review
3.4
Nov 22, 2011
3.3
May 28, 2010
Review
3.2
Sep 28, 2009
Dec 23, 2014
3.1
Apr 4, 2009
Jun 18, 2009
3.0
Apr 26, 2008
2.2
Feb 26, 2008
Review
1.3
Sep 28, 2008

What's new

v5.0 beta [Dec 26, 2017]
- New entity — Task. You can form a task as a set of different event logs (or XML query) with your own presets — filter, display options etc.
- New variables in custom columns for merged log views (or tasks) — {_LOGNAME} — name of log {_HOSTNAME} — name of computer.
- Credential manager improvements — you can setup default credentials for all non-listed in the credential manager computers.
- Full UNICODE support.
- Sorting by custom columns added (for memory storage).
- High DPI-awareness added. Works smoothly on any DPI and in multiDPI (multimonitor) environment.
- The program displays number of selected, bookmarked, displayed and loaded events in the infobar of log view.
- Event Log Explorer now prevents adding the same log in the merger several times.
- Option to refresh all views at one time added.
- Option to merge selected logs into one view added.
- Event Log Properties dialog improved for modern event logs.
- Manual UI scaling instead of user fonts.
- Scheduled export improved — will not show progress popup interfering with other apps.
- Multiple event log clearing didn't work correctly. Fixed.
- Opening All logs in a merger view from different computers may crash .
- Fixed compatibility issue with Windows PE.
- Lots of minor bugs fixed.

v4.3 [Jul 10, 2014]
- Added Custom columns - you can extract information from description and display it in event list.
- Added alerts by event type.
- NewAPI: Event description could be missing for some events. Fixed.
- NewAPI: Event category could be miscalculated for some events. Fixed.
- Filter window improvements.
- Added new analytical reports.
- Added import tree options (when you import from a text file).
- Option to show Record number.
- Tooltips on tabs to display helpful information.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

v4.3 beta [Feb 9, 2014]
- Fixed bug with incorrect event description display.

v2.2 [Feb 26, 2008]
Fixed a bug which could extremely slow down event log loading process.

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