Windows Update uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to generate diagnostic logs in Windows 11/10, and save them in the .etl file format. The reason why this has been done is that it reduces disk space ...

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very ...

At times, the information Windows Defender or Windows Security displays is quite difficult to understand. If you use this security shield on your computer and want to comprehend all the information ...

The Windows system consists of thousands of files. Many of them have strange names, others have extensions that most users have never seen before. Normally you do not need to worry about these files.

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

I'm trying to trouble shoot a crazy installation issue installing a published app on WTS. For the life of me I cannot figure out why the Microsoft Installer keeps rolling back and the only thing I can ...

Does anyone have any tool(s) to do this? I've got any number of AIX, Linux, and Windows machines that I need to tail logs files from. I often have to correlate them at the same time, from different ...

The default event logging in Windows 10 won't give you enough information to properly conduct intrusion forensics. These settings and tools will help you collect the needed log data. After a ...

If you're having driver problems, you can use this guide to log the loaded and unloaded drivers during boot, which you can use in your troubleshooting process. When you purchase through links on our ...