System error logs

[Kenneth Brody]

I, personally, have never deleted any Windows system logs.  I've never found 
a reason to do so.  (NB:  It's possible "way back when", when Windows wrote 
text log files, I might have purged non-error log files, such as all those 
installations.)

Note that Windows automatically purges/archives the oldest log entries, 
depending on your settings.  My system shows "overwrite events as needed 
(oldest events first)" on all of the Windows logs.  The "system" log goes 
back 5-1/2 months.

My entire "logs" directory is only 214MB.  (Not sure when nearly a quarter 
of a GB became "only", but so be it.  SanDisk just announced a 1TB SD card.)

If you think purging the logs will help find some error currently happening 
in a program, you're wrong.  If you say "but there's just so much to wade 
through if I don't purge", you're missing the fact that you'll have just as 
much to wade through after the purge, since you only need to look around the 
time that the program was run, and all that "other stuff" will still be in 
the logs.  You can, of course, filter things in the view.

-- 
Kenneth Brody