Windows 11 is refreshing Secure Boot keys in 2026. Here's why TPM-WMI Event ID 1801 appears, and how to verify the new certificate.

Event Viewer is a handy tool that allows you to view and analyze detailed logs of various events on your computer. It is pretty useful when your system goes through a crash and you are trying to find ...

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

Using the Windows Update Viewer tool is very easy and apart from viewing Windows Update history in detail and exporting data as a CSV file or a text document, there are some other features provided by ...

I'm testing a system that watches the main Windows logs (Application, Security, System) and alerts me when it sees a new event. The thing is, to test this properly I need to be able to manually ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...