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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:12 PM
Hello,
How can I clear an individual Log in Event Viewer? I select an event and click to Clear. But clear all logs.
Thanks
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:10 PM
Hello Arash,
Doing what you described would clear an individual log in Event Viewer like in option 4 of the tutorial below.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16588-clear-all-event-logs-event-viewer-windows.html
If you mean how to delete a specific event in a log instead, I'm not sure you are able to other than clearing all events in a log.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Thnak you for tour answer,
I want delete a specific event. Can I?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:55 PM
You can filter the log to help only see events you want, but I'm not aware of a way to delete individual events.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:11 PM
Why we can not delete specific log? for security reasons?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:28 PM
Hello Arash_89,
There is no routine to delete individual events in the Event Logging API (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/eventlog/event-logging-functions).
One can only speculate as to why. Perhaps because the event log is a sequential file and "deleting" an event might involve moving all of the following data. One could imagine just providing an "overwrite erase" routine, but why would one bother to do this? As you hint yourself, the lack of such a function also has some security benefits, making it difficult to cover ones tracks after doing something one shouldn't have done...
Gary
Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:12 AM
Hi,
Unfortunately we could only clear the whole log. You can refer to the explanation by mrTomahawk in the following link:
How can I remove specific events from the event log in Windows Server 2008?
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