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Windows 7 forum: Delete all event logs at once in Windows 7 - part deux

by: fobsharan December 13, 2012 10:25 PM PST

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Delete all event logs at once in Windows 7 - part deux

by fobsharan - 12/13/12 10:25 PM

S13013E started the discussion (thx) in "Delete all event logs at once in Windows 7". Since the discussion is locked here's a batch solution that's been around for awhile: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/25480-event-viewer-one-click-clear.html


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As I recall

by Jimmy Greystone - 12/14/12 6:53 AM

In Reply to: Delete all event logs at once in Windows 7 - part deux by fobsharan

As I recall, your issue was involving logs on a SSD, specifically limiting the number of write operations performed, and so I'm not quite sure that you really thought this one through all the way. Deleting a file off a SSD would be the same as a write operation on that cell, so you're not really helping the situation, especially since Windows will just go and recreate the log file any time there's some new information that would go into it.

You may as well be trying to cut water for all the good you're doing. This is assuming you have no interest in the wealth of diagnostic information provided in those logs, instead preferring to grope around blindly when trying to resolve some difficult issue, hoping to stumble across the solution by chance.


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You recall incorrectly.

by fobsharan - 12/14/12 7:46 AM

In Reply to: As I recall by Jimmy Greystone

Wasn't my "issue."


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It was cutting water.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 12/14/12 7:55 AM

In Reply to: You recall incorrectly. by fobsharan

Not only did they write to the SSD then by clearing they would write to the SSD again, which was not funny to read. It seems they needed time to think it over.

Bob


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