What is the equivalent of dmesg on WinXP and later?
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Solution 1
There is the system error log ("eventvwr.msc"), but it's not as descriptive as dmesg. There's also C:\BOOT.LOG, where available.
Solution 2
see wevtutil and Sysinternals' psloglist
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Ярослав Рахматуллин
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Ярослав Рахматуллин over 1 year
The output from dmesg is often useful for determining which hardware is detected on a given system but it is also very useful for looking at hardware errors such as when wifi interface won't work or when a a hard drive is about to die.
I would very much like to learn about a Windows alternative to read kernel messages of that sort. I imagine It could be useful in determining the cause of the bsod in some cases.
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Ярослав Рахматуллин over 11 yearsI will have to look closer at that viewer thing. Doesn't look very useful right-off.
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Wayne Jhukie over 11 yearsLinux generally has better messages than windows because there is the possibility of the user hacking the source and fixing it. A lot of Windows stuff fails silently or opaquely. Having said that, eventvwr offers a link to the Knowledgebase for an error message which is often quite good.
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LawrenceC over 8 yearsSpecifically
wevutil qe system /f:Text /rd | more
is probably the closest command-line equivalent for the Windows System log. But the messages are not as informative.