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Various methods to launch the Event Viewer

Posted on 06/02/202017/08/2026 Christian By Christian No Comments on Various methods to launch the Event Viewer
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This is needed in order to be able to analyse, resolve application and system errors correctly as well as get information about the system. knowing various ways to fire up core built-in tools is paramount for your day to day administration. Please see how to fix the virtual machine ran into a non-fatal problem as described below, we suggest that you take appropriate action to prevent the problem from recurring, and how to install Windows Server 2019 on Virtualbox.

Recently, the Windows search stopped working as stated in the articles below and I saw a lot of people unable to perform their tasks effectively. Because of this, I will be discussing here and in further article various ways to launch built-in Windows Tool and Commands Prompts.

Via the File explorer

Here are the steps to launch the event viewer
– Search for “eventvwr.exe”  
– Press enter

Launch methods

Via Windows Search

Search for Event viewer and double click on the event viewer app or hit enter to launch the event viewer app.

Event Viewer techniques

Via the Run Wizard. This can be launched by the steps below
– Search for “RUN”
– Enter the utility command “eventvwr” and press ok.

In this way, you can run and launch other built-in tools as shown below.

Event Viewer options

Via PowerShell: Open the PowerShell with Administrative privilege and perform the following
– Type eventvwr.msc
– This will fire up the vent viewer console.

Event Viewer techniques

Via Command Prompt

Launch the Command prompt with administrative privilege
– Type eventvwr and
– Hit Enter

This will also open the event viewer

Screenshot of Windows Command Prompt displaying Microsoft Windows version information, with the command 'eventvwr' executed, alongside the Event Viewer interface showing local event categories and administrative events.

Via the Control Panel: The event viewer can also be launched via the Control panel.
– Click on Systems and Security
– Under Administrative Tools,
– Click on “View Event Viewer”

Screenshot of the Windows Control Panel showing the 'System and Security' section, highlighting options like 'Security and Maintenance', 'Windows Defender Firewall', 'System', 'Power Options', and 'Administrative Tools'.

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