How to clear the event log in Windows 10

Surely, you know that the event log in Windows 10 is a kind of repository, which may be use, provided that it will be necessary to take out of the store specific information. It is clear that such a plan is very practical to store and convenient to use, that's just there are times when you just need to to clear the event log in Windows 10. Reasons to clean storage can be very diverse, and they can be incredibly, so let's try to do the cleaning in several ways.

Method number 1 - Manual cleaning of the event log in Windows 10

In this step, everything will be very simple and does not require you to do something over and above the global. Just make the opening of the event snap through "Start" menu, provided that we are launching a magazine or we click on a specific section of RMB and accordingly choose from the menu option "Clear History...".

Method number 2 - Clear an event log in Windows 10 using the command line

If you need to to clear the event log in Windows 10 entirely, then you should use the "command line". To do this, start up the console as an administrator and produce in it the following command: for / F "tokens = *"% 1 in ( 'wevtutil.exe el') DO wevtutil.exe cl "% 1"





Once you list the above-named command, and press the button «Enter», then immediately you see on the screen of the monitor log actions to remove all the records in a row.
If you need to use the command line to clear, not all sections at once, but only some one, then you should use the "original team»: «wevtutil el | more».



That will show you a list of available logs, and after that, make a choice necessary to remove the magazine and make it clean using the command: wevtutil.exe cl NameLog



Note that in the above command, «NameLog» - the name of the magazine which must be removed.

Method number 3 - Clear the event log in Windows 10 using PowerShell

In order to to clear the event log in Windows 10, you can use the «PowerShell». For this activity you need to make the launch of the console as an administrator and make it perform a bunch of pairs of commands similar to the following: wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {wevtutil cl "$ _"}



Note that this method will allow you to clean virtually the entire event log, except for a few events to which you have not any access.