Comments on: Fixing "The Event Log is Full" Error on Windows XP

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:41:36 +0000

THanks very much, you are the GEEK!

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:07:50 +0000

YOU ARE A LEGEND!!!!

Thanks.

By: Kenessar

Kenessar — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:15:24 +0000

Ohhhh , It’s great. Thanks.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:52:41 +0000

I’ve just found your website and after failing to find a solution to fix a problem in Windows 7, I would like to ask here if you can help me please?

My question is with regard to clearing the log in Administrative Events found in the Control Panel under AdministrativeTools/Event Viewer of Windows 7. I can clear the contents of all other logs in event viewer because each entry has a “clear log” option when you ‘right-click’ it, but Administrative Events does not have the “clear log” option.

At the moment, the “Administrative Event” log has 207 events and I would like to clear it.

Regards

Dave

By: Orange

Orange — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:29:39 +0000

I had that happen to me, and I discovered that someone on another continent was trying to break into my computer using a program that was trying different passwords on my FTP server. So, as the article says, one should really find out why the event log is filling up.

I did 2 things to put a stop to it. I renamed the built-in “Administrator” account to something else, and I turned off the FTP server that comes with XP because it does not have a feature that will limit connection attempts.

By: Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:33:23 +0000

Great, thanks.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:43:18 +0000

You can also Clear all Events from the same context menu as well

By: venkat

venkat — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:43:46 +0000

This is a nice tweak to increase the event log file size.