Windows XML Event Log (EVTX)

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The Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) format was introduces in Windows Vista as a replacement for the Windows Event Log (EVT) format.

Windows EventViewer can represent the EVTX files in both "formatted view" and "XML view". Note that the formatted view can hide significant event data that is stored in the event and can be seen in the XML view.

See Also

• Windows Event Log (EVT)

External Links

• EventLog Remoting Protocol Version 6.0 Specification
• int for(ensic){blog;} - results tagged Evtx, by Andreas Schuster
• Introducing the Microsoft Vista Event Log File Format, by Andreas Schuster in 2007
• Linking Event Messages and Resource DLLs, by Andreas Schuster in 2010
• Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) format, by the libevtx project
• EventID.net

Tools

• Evtx Parser
• libevtx
• log2timeline