Event Viewer One Click Clear

How to Clear Event Viewer with One Click in Windows​

   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


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, and click on Run as administrator to run the 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 goto theEnd
:do_clear
echo clearing %1
wevtutil.exe cl %1
goto :eof
:noAdmin
exit

Related Tutorials

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• How to Clear all Event Logs in Event Viewer using Windows PowerShell
• How to Setup Event Viewer in Vista and Windows 7 to Send a Email Notification
• Filtering and Creating Custom Event Views for System Monitoring

 

[lightningltd]

OK Zardoc.... You DID get mine smaller, BUT....... :devil::devil::devil:

Here is the even SMALLER version!

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

(d)

 

[RandyD123]

Batch files are fun!!!

 

[Vertex]

Wow, thanks for that. You know I had this problem of course. In XP, its much easier to clear the event viewer than Vista and Windows 7 because in those two, you have to manually clear every log category than in Windows XP that lets you clear all logs on just 4 categories.

Maybe you guys can teach me with these command prompts hacks.

 

[iamshadow]

thanks for the share...

 

[Zardoc]

My Pleasure.

Fun to save time.

 

[thanospc]

Thats very helpful tool!!!! nice job!!!

 

[Zardoc]

THANK YOU.

 

[karlsnooks]

Many thanks. I didn't even know that we had this until LasyB mentioned same.

When testing, I like to get rid of the old events first and this is an excellent solution.

 

[Zardoc]

My pleasure.

 

[Dixon Butz]

I have been using My Event Viewer to view and clear the windows logs. You can choose to clear all or some of them. Plus many other options.

Alternative to standard event viewer of Windows

 

[amir57]

thanks a lot Zardoc i always clear my event viewer now u make it easier for me

 

[Zardoc]

My Pleasure.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Works as advertised, thanks

 

[Zardoc]

My pleasure.

 

[FredeGail]

Awesome one!

 

[Zardoc]

Awesome one!

Glad you like it Fredagail

 

[WiFi Ed]

Oh noes! Infinite loop time! I run the batch file, it clears the logs and makes a few new entries in the logs stating that the log files were cleared. So I run it again to remove those entries and...

Just kidding, this is a great little batch file, thanks to Zardoc & lightningltd!

 

[Zardoc]

So you wanted to yank my chain?



You're welcome.

 

[funyson]

Thanks for sharing :*
Have a great day :d

for some reason it does not work on windows xp
hix hix

 

[devnulllore]

@Lightningltd

Great batch file! but I have always wondered, what's with the long pauses between various log clearings?

dev