The Event Viewer contains a listing of hundreds or thousands of events. All these
events may not be of much interest to an administrator. It may also not be very
convenient to scroll through the list of events in order to locate a particular event.
Log filtering allows you to specify the criteria for displaying recorded events. Once
the filter is configured, Event Viewer will display only those events that satisfy the
specified filter conditions. For example, you may not be interested in browsing
through hundreds of event entries that have been recorded only for ...
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