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Why you should check your computer's event log regularly and how to do so.

Being a computer genius involves doing some amazing things on a computer system one of which is knowing everything that happens on your computer when you are not around. you must have seen someone or some SysAdmins do this. The secret behind this is checking your event log regularly because everything that happens on your computer get logged into the event log. If you are ever going to catch your hacker, this might be your only hope, but some hackers are smart because they clear the event log when they are done, the only thing you see in the event log is an event informing you that the event log has been cleared. How to view your event log Because Windows Operating System is widely used, am going to show you how to do this in Windows using Powershell command line tool. To view your event logs and perform other event log related operation, open up Windows Powershell (Windows Powershell is available in 7 and above, I can't say about older Windows Operating Systems) and type the f...