Event Viewer One Click Clear

How to Clear Event Viewer with One Click in Windows​

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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.

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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
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• Filtering and Creating Custom Event Views for System Monitoring

 

[Zardoc]

Added Virtual PC clean log.

 

[ratePV]

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]

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]

Z

Really nice thanks

 

[Dinesh]

Very nice.

 

[Zardoc]

Pleasure guys.

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

 

[rsvr85]

Very useful, thanks heaps Zardoc!!

 

[Zardoc]

My pleasure.

 

[lightningltd]

Even shorter event clear script...

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):

View attachment 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

 

[Zardoc]

Someone seems to know code better than I do.
Seems to work (I say that because I don't understand the code)

Let's say you don't want to have to press exit key every time. We can modify this way

@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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Nice. I'll try it a while and check.

 

[chicane]

I am logged in as administrator and I keep getting access is denied error when trying to clear out my event logs. Why?

I have tried this script, the command prompt, the event viewer doesn't event have a clear function available. Can anyone help?

 

[Zardoc]

Hi and welcome to the forums.​

Even if you are logged in as administrator you must right click the command and choose run as administrator for it to work.​

 

[Nobax]

Thanks..!

 

[derekimo]

Wow, Thank's Zardoc, That is a major timesaver!

 

[Zardoc]

Pleasure dude.

Give rep if you like.

 

[derekimo]

Pleasure dude.

Give rep if you like.

I Like, and I did + rep.

 

[Zardoc]

Thanks Derek.

Happy you like it.

 

[RandyD123]

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):

View attachment 33164
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

This is way better than the first batch file that was posted!!!! Thanks lightningltd!!!

 

[Zardoc]

Thanks Randy, but if you read the whole post, I have a modified one in shorter than that and it does the same job.