Deleting only old System Logs


  1. Posts : 136
    Windows 7
       #1

    Deleting only old System Logs


    Hi,

    I got lots of Windows Error Logs on a machine.
    I try to delete only Logs that are older than a month,
    but I did not found any possibility to do that ....

    Does anyone know a way to do that?
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  2. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #2

    Leave it alone it already removes old logs when new ones come in.
    Simply adjust the maximum size.
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  3. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #3

    MPREv said:
    Hi,

    I got lots of Windows Error Logs on a machine.
    I try to delete only Logs that are older than a month,
    but I did not found any possibility to do that ....

    Does anyone know a way to do that?
    Many of those logs are only of interest to a historian or a wood-chopper.

    I'll tell you what I did once and contrary to what others thought and say, my computer did not crash and burn.

    I selected the C drive in explorer, In the search box on the right end, I typed filename:*.log
    After the explorer found all the logs then Ctrl + A to select all and Ctrl + D to delete.
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  4. Posts : 136
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    logicearth said:
    Leave it alone it already removes old logs when new ones come in.
    Simply adjust the maximum size.
    Found about 1GB of logs using the Windows HD Clean UP tool
    on a PC with about 2 MB left on C:....
    so I don't want to wait for something.

    I'll look if i find the max size.


    karlsnooks said:
    Many of those logs are only of interest to a historian or a wood-chopper.
    And some of them maybe help some dubugger ... who cares, but
    it doesn't help me with the problem
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  5. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #5

    I've never seen one run with only 2MB of free space left.

    Perhaps there is a little more.

    If your objective is to free up space, then :
    CCleaner
    CleanMgr.exe,
    powercfg -h off which eliminates your hibernate file


    Threre are other things you can do but some of them can turn around and bite you later. Some won't buy you that much space.

    Do you have the hard disk divided into partitions? Iff yes, what's the size and nbr of free bytes for each of them?
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  6. Posts : 136
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    karlsnooks said:
    I've never seen one run with only 2MB of free space left.

    Perhaps there is a little more.
    No, there is no more ...

    karlsnooks said:
    If your objective is to free up space, then :
    CCleaner
    CleanMgr.exe,
    powercfg -h off which eliminates your hibernate file
    Threre are other things you can do but some of them can turn around and bite you later. Some won't buy you that much space.
    Do you have the hard disk divided into partitions? Iff yes, what's the size and nbr of free bytes for each of them?
    Oh, thats interesting,
    but as mention I'm looking for the described feature,
    and not hundred others.
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