Delete all Event Logs on Windows to remove activity traces

Professionals can rely on Event Logs to monitor computer activity. Especially tracing or troubleshooting problems with Windows and other applications. However, you can also Delete All Event Logs on Windows to remove traces of your activity on your computer. First, you need to learn the Event Logs and Event Viewer:

Event Viewer is a tool that displays detailed information in the form of an event log about important events on your PC.

Event logs are special files that record important events on your PC. For example when the user logs into the PC or when the application crashes. Whenever these types of events occur, Windows logs the event in Event logs which you can read using EventViewer.

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Delete all Event Logs on Windows

• You must be logged in as Administrator to be able to delete all Event logs.
• This will not delete Analytics or Debug. If you have them enabled, the wevutl command will return an error, but all other logs will be deleted.
• Delete all Event Viewer Will delete it too Reliability.

Delete Event Viewer Logs with .bat . file

1. Download the file below to your computer

Clear_Event_Viewer_Logs.bat

2. Unzip the file, there will be a file Clear_Event_Viewer_Logs.bat

3. Right click on the .bat file and select Run as Administrator

4. A command prompt will open to delete event logs. The window will automatically close when finished.

Delete all Event Logs with 1 CMD . command

You open CMD with Adminstrator rights. Copy the command line below and press Enter:

for /F "tokens=*" %1 in ('wevtutil.exe el') DO wevtutil.exe cl "%1"

The process of automatically deleting Event Log will take place, you wait about 1 minute to finish.

Delete Event Viewer Logs with PowerShell

PowerShell can do all the logging in the Event Log very quickly. You open PowerShell and enter the command below:

Get-WinEvent -ListLog * | where {$_.RecordCount} | ForEach-Object -Process { [System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogSession]::GlobalSession.ClearLog($_.LogName) }

OR

Get-EventLog -LogName * | ForEach { Clear-EventLog $_.Log }

OR

wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {wevtutil cl "$_"}

Event Log will be deleted. You can close PowerShell when finished.