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By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:39:04 +0000

@Peter Owen

Depends on what exactly you do with event viewer. MyEventViewer adds some convenient additional stuff native viewer lacks – easier filtering, search, export, etc.

So if you need faster interface and additional functionality… To simply look through recent events native viewer is quite enough.

Oh and another advantage is that MyEventViewer is standalone. Native Event Viewer is MMC console. If some malware breaks MMC (and they are more and more thorough with disabling stuff that can be used to fix infection) Event Viewer is dead as well.

In the end with such close utilities – try yourself and decide if it fits your taste and common usage.

By: Peter Owen

Peter Owen — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:06:09 +0000

From your post, I can’t really see the benefit of using this one versus the native event viewer. Is it really that much easier to use?