Continued use of Windows will generate a large number of log files, but how can one easily monitor these files without having to go through a series of mouse clicks? Well, recently, we’ve been testing ...

DISM is a useful utility. In addition to repairing corrupted system image files, you can also use the DISM tool for other purposes, like installing, uninstalling, updating, and configuring Windows ...

Learn how to use the Logrotate program to administer, back up, and monitor log files on Linux. Log files are the most valuable tools available for Linux system security. The logrotate program is used ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...

Windows upgrades used to be something you only had to worry about every few years. But in the Windows 10 era, each twice-yearly feature update is essentially a full upgrade. When an upgrade or feature ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...