Delete windows event log source

You will not get any success message after creation, but you can visit Event Viewer to see new log name " MyTestLogName " under " Application and Services Logs " as below:. If Source already exists in your system, it will not allow you to create new and throw the below error:. Instead of visiting to Event Viewer to check newly created your own new source shared in above section , you can just hit Get-EventLog -List command in PowerShell to get a complete list as below:.

As you can have multiple Sources under same Log Name, that's why you can simply delete Source does not mean it will remove your Log Name as well. The ZapLog event log no longer appears in the list.

These commands use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet to list the event sources on the local computer. You can these commands to verify the success of a command or to delete an event source. The first command gets the event sources of the TestLog event log on the local computer.

MyApp is one of the sources. To specify the local computer, type the computer name, a dot. This parameter does not rely on Windows PowerShell remoting.

You can use the ComputerName parameter of Remove-EventLog even if your computer is not configured to run remote commands. Specifies the event logs. Enter the log name of one or more event logs, separated by commas. The log name is the value of the Log property, not the LogDisplayName , Wildcard characters are not permitted. This parameter is required. Specifies the event sources that this cmdlet unregisters.

Enter the source names, not the executable name, separated by commas. If you remove an event log and then re-create the log, you will not be able to register the same event sources. Applications that used the events sources to write entries to the original log will not be able to write to the new log. When you unregister an event source for a particular log, the event source might be prevented from writing entries in other event logs. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. How can I remove a Windows event log? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 5 months ago. Active 5 months ago. Viewed 7k times. Is there any way to either eliminate source and event log mysb?

Improve this question. I say Reinstate Monica 24k 18 18 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. Thomas Thomas 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. According to the description on Microsoft docs: The Remove-EventLog cmdlet deletes an event log file from a local or remote computer and unregisters all its event sources for the log.

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