Security at Your Fingertips Part 4 of 5  

Category: Security

Last time we talked about Security at your fingertips, we discussed using a built-in feature of Windows called Bitlocker to encrypt the entire contents of your hard drive.  You can find that article at www.billing-coding.com

Today, we're going to talk about how you can retrieve a history of events, particularly security events, which have happened to your computer.  Introducing today's article:

Using The Windows Event Viewer to Track Events
All NT versions of Windows have always had a built-in event viewer.  Note I didn't say the DOS versions, such as Windows 9x.  But Windows NT which includes Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7.  For us techs, the Event Viewer is the first place we go when troubleshooting an issue.  Let's take a look.
 
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