Some of our readers have asked themselves “What on Earth is the Event Viewer, and why would I want to work with it?” Windows starts to keep track of what it is doing as soon as you start it up, and continuously saves log files that can provide a wealth of information when something goes wrong, and even when everything is fine. The Event Viewer gives you an easy way to look those logs. In this tutorial, we take a look at the Windows logs, and the information Event Viewer provides about what is going on with your system: