MyEventViewer Changelog

What's new in MyEventViewer 2.25

Jan 15, 2017
  • Added option to specify time range filter in local time ('Advanced Filter' window).
  • Fixed to save the time range settings to the .cfg file.

New in MyEventViewer 2.20 (Aug 14, 2015)

  • Added 'Choose Data Source' option (F7), which allows you to view the events from a remote computer (In previous versions, you could only do it with /remote command-line option)

New in MyEventViewer 2.14 (Jun 9, 2015)

  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer failed to display a check sign for 'Show Advanced Filter Window On Start' option when it was turned on.

New in MyEventViewer 2.13 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Fixed MyEventViewer to display error message when it fails to load external file with /LoadFiles command-line option.
  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.

New in MyEventViewer 2.12 (Jun 24, 2014)

  • Fixed bug: The combination of /EventLogNames and the save command-line options failed to work properly.

New in MyEventViewer 2.11 (Jun 9, 2014)

  • Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key

New in MyEventViewer 2.10 (May 19, 2014)

  • Added option to hide events with specific users (In 'Advanced Filter' window)

New in MyEventViewer 2.07 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • Fixed to display date/time properly according to daylight saving time settings

New in MyEventViewer 2.06 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • Added 'Copy Lower Pane Text' option (Ctrl+L), which always copies the text from the lower pane, even when the upper pane is in focus

New in MyEventViewer 2.05 (Oct 23, 2013)

  • Fixed the save command-line options to filter the events according to the current configuration

New in MyEventViewer 2.02 (Oct 11, 2013)

  • Added /cfg command-line option, which instructs MyEventViewer to use a config file in another location instead if the default config file, for example: MyEventViewer.exe /cfg "%AppData%\MyEventViewer.cfg"

New in MyEventViewer 2.01 (Aug 14, 2013)

  • The lower pane now displays the event strings list if it fails to get the full message string from the event log dll

New in MyEventViewer 2.00 (Jul 6, 2013)

  • Added 'Event Description Display Mode' option - Full Text or Strings List. If 'Strings List' option is selected, the lower pane displays the strings list stored in the event record instead of the full description text containing these strings.

New in MyEventViewer 1.95 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • Added option to display only the events with specific users (In 'Advanced Filter' window)

New in MyEventViewer 1.90 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Added 'Auto Scroll On New Event' option

New in MyEventViewer 1.88 (May 16, 2013)

  • Fixed the flickering occurred while scrolling the events list.

New in MyEventViewer 1.87 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.

New in MyEventViewer 1.86 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Sorting by event time: If the date/time of multiple events is identical, MyEventViewer now sorts the list by the log type, and then by the record number (In previous versions, the sorting of events with the same time was random)
  • Fixed issue: The properties and the 'Advanced Options' windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.

New in MyEventViewer 1.85 (Jul 16, 2012)

  • Added Stop menu item, which allows you to stop the loading process of the events log.

New in MyEventViewer 1.81 (Jun 27, 2012)

  • Fixed the tab order of the 'Advanced Options' dialog-box.

New in MyEventViewer 1.80 (May 10, 2012)

  • Added /SaveDirect command line option, for using with the other save command-line options (/scomma, /stab, /sxml, and so on...)
  • When you use the SaveDirect mode, the event log lines are saved directly to the disk, without loading them into the memory first. This means that you can save a list with large amount of event log lines into your disk without any memory problem, as long as you have enough disk space to store the saved file. The drawback of this mode: You cannot sort the log lines according to the column you choose with /sort command-line option.

New in MyEventViewer 1.75 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Added /VisibleEventTypes command-line option, which allows you to specify the event types you wish to load.
  • Added /EventLogNames command-line option, which allows you to specify the event log names you wish to load.

New in MyEventViewer 1.70 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of MyEventViewer will be invisible on start

New in MyEventViewer 1.66 (Nov 2, 2011)

  • Added accelerator keys to the event type filter (Ctrl+1 - Ctrl+5)

New in MyEventViewer 1.65 (Oct 19, 2011)

  • Added option to filter by Event ID.

New in MyEventViewer 1.63 (Aug 2, 2011)

  • Added new option: 'Show Advanced Filter Window On Start'.

New in MyEventViewer 1.62 (Jul 23, 2011)

  • Added 'Tray Balloon Event Type Filter' option (Under the Options menu), which allows you to choose for which event types the tray balloon will be displayed.

New in MyEventViewer 1.61 (Jun 2, 2011)

  • Added option to load only the last xx events from every event log. (In the 'Advanced Filter' window)

New in MyEventViewer 1.60 (May 9, 2011)

  • Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
  • Added 'Tray Balloon On New Event' (works only when 'Put Icon On Tray' is turned on). When this option is turned on, and 'Auto Refresh' mode is enabled too, Every new event detected by MyEventViewer is displayed inside a tray balloon.

New in MyEventViewer 1.55 (Apr 10, 2011)

  • Added option to hide events by their source name, in the 'Advanced Options' window. You can specify multiple source names as comma delimited list (For exmaple: WinMgmt, w3svc, esent)

New in MyEventViewer 1.50 (Mar 31, 2011)

  • Added option to filter the events by source name, in the 'Advanced Options' window. You can specify multiple source names as comma delimited list (For exmaple: WinMgmt, w3svc, esent)
  • Added 'Remote Event Description Mode' under the Options menu, which allows you to control how the event description dll files are loaded when you connect a remote computer. In previous versions, the dll files were loaded from the local computer. Now you can choose whether to load them from local computer, remote computer or both. Be aware that loading dll files from the remote computer is a much slower process, and requires admin shares access (C$, D$, ADMIN$ and so on)

New in MyEventViewer 1.45 (Mar 4, 2011)

  • Added option to load the events on selected date/time range. (In 'Advanced Filter' window).
  • Added /advanced command-line option, for starting MyEventViewer with the 'Advanced Filter' window before loading the events.

New in MyEventViewer 1.42 (Dec 29, 2010)

  • The status bar now displays the total data size of selected events in KB/MB

New in MyEventViewer 1.41 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
  • Added x64 download, for using on 64-bit versions of Windows.

New in MyEventViewer 1.40 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • Added 'New Events Refresh' (F8) - This refresh option only add new events that have been created since the previous refresh, instead of loading the entire events list. This refresh is much faster than the standard refresh option (F5), which reloads the entire events list.
  • Added 'Auto Refresh' under the Options menu (1, 3, 5, 10 seconds, or disabled) - When this option is turned on, newly created events are displayed automatically without using the refresh option. When using this option, it's recommended to sort the events list by the event time, so the new events will appear in the top or in the bottom of the events list.

New in MyEventViewer 1.37 (Jul 15, 2010)

  • Fixed issue: Removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers, as well as removed wrong tag from the xml.

New in MyEventViewer 1.36 (May 10, 2010)

  • You can now send the events information to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line. (For example: MyEventViewer.exe /stab "" >> c:\temp\evt.txt)

New in MyEventViewer 1.35 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Added /LoadFiles command-line paraneter, which allows you to load .evt files.

New in MyEventViewer 1.30 (Mar 13, 2010)

  • Added 'Show Event Description In Table' option, which allows you to view the description of the event in the 'Event Description' column

New in MyEventViewer 1.25 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Added command-line support.

New in MyEventViewer 1.22 (May 3, 2009)

  • Fixed bug: When using /remote option, MyEventViewer failed to display any non-system user name.

New in MyEventViewer 1.21 (Apr 30, 2009)

  • Fixed bug: When using /remote option, MyEventViewer cleared the log of local computer instead of the remote computer.

New in MyEventViewer 1.20 (Apr 28, 2009)

  • Added /remote command-line option to connect a remote computer.

New in MyEventViewer 1.15 (Oct 16, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer stopped enumerating the logs when there was an item with very large data.
  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer failed to display long text/data in the bottom pane.
  • New Option: 'Find By Event Description'. When this option is checked, the find feature also searches inside the description of the event

New in MyEventViewer 1.11 (Sep 9, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer failed to display properly items with source name longer than 30 characters.

New in MyEventViewer 1.10 (May 9, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to MyEventViewer

New in MyEventViewer 1.09 (Apr 17, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: MyEventViewer crashed when the event data was very large

New in MyEventViewer 1.06 (Mar 28, 2008)

  • Fixed bug in Event ID sorting.
  • Fixed a few points that might cause a crash in MyEventViewer

New in MyEventViewer 1.05 (Mar 17, 2008)

  • New option: Clean All Events Logs
  • New option: Show only events from the last xx minutes/hours/days. (In the Advanced Filter window)

New in MyEventViewer 1.01 (Mar 6, 2008)

  • Added filter by event type.