Windows 7 - Event Viewer One Click Clear

**Zardoc**

How to Clear the Windows 7 Event Viewer with One Click

Information

This will show you how to create a command line shortcut that will clear all of the Event Viewer logs in one click.

Here is a batch file that can help you clear the event viewer in one click.

Download this file above..

Unzip on your desktop.

You can use the task scheduler to give it a high priority so you won't get a UAC prompt

See Brink's Tip HERE

Or, just copy this script and paste in notepad and save as Clean Viewer.BAT

Right click to run the file

Code:

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=1,2*" %%V IN ('bcdedit') DO SET adminTest=%%V
IF (%adminTest%)==(Access) goto noAdmin
for /F "tokens=*" %%G in ('wevtutil.exe el') DO (call :do_clear "%%G")
echo.
echo goto theEnd
:do_clear
echo clearing %1
wevtutil.exe cl %1
goto :eof
:noAdmin
exit

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**Zardoc** · 10-18-2009

Added Virtual PC clean log.

**ratePV** · 10-18-2009

Very nice!

I clean the Event log because it gets full of error/warning events...

This will shorten the time needed to clean it out!

Thanks!

**Zardoc** · 10-18-2009

That's the main reason why I created this script. Microsoft is supposed to re examine the viewer to make it less scary with usless warnings.

Happy to help.

**zigzag3143** · 10-18-2009

Z

Really nice thanks

**Dinesh** · 10-18-2009

Very nice.

**Zardoc** · 10-18-2009

Pleasure guys.

There's some very good stuff in this section!!

**rsvr85** · 10-19-2009

Very useful, thanks heaps Zardoc!!

**Zardoc** · 10-19-2009

My pleasure.

**lightningltd** · 10-26-2009

This is an even shorter script to clear the event logs and will cover new logs as well as the current ones (Don't remember who I got it from, but works fantastically):

Clear_All_Logs.bat
OR you could also paste the following into a new batch file:

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=1,2*" %%V IN ('bcdedit') DO SET adminTest=%%V
IF (%adminTest%)==(Access) goto noAdmin
for /F "tokens=*" %%G in ('wevtutil.exe el') DO (call :do_clear "%%G")
echo.
echo Event Logs have been cleared! ^<press any key^>
goto theEnd
:do_clear
echo clearing %1
wevtutil.exe cl %1
goto :eof
:noAdmin
echo You must run this script as an Administrator!
echo ^<press any key^>
:theEnd
pause>NUL

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