How to View Windows Logs

How to View Windows Logs

Windows Logs can be used to collect additional diagnostic information related to system or application issues. This article describes how to open Event Viewer and extract relevant error details.

Steps

Step 1. Reproduce the issue

Reproduce the issue you have encountered so that the relevant events are recorded in the system logs.

Step 2. Open Event Viewer

You can open Event Viewer in one of the following ways:
  1. Press Windows + R, type eventvwr.msc, and click OK
  2. Open Start, begin typing Event Viewer, and select Event Viewer from the search results (as shown in the screenshot below)


Step 3. Open Windows Logs

After the Event Viewer interface opens, expand the Windows Logs section.
Focus on the following two entries in this category:
  1. Application
  2. System


Step 4. Copy error details

Open each of these sections and locate the relevant errors.

For every error found, switch to the Details tab and copy the error content into a separate file, as shown in the screenshot below:


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