Windows 10: Event Viewer logging only since last power on

I'm experiencing this weird freezing issue where I could be playing a game and suddenly everything will pause, and yet some parts of programs will be active. Such as in Battlefront II just now, I could move the camera around my character as he was frozen mid-run, but everything else about the game was stopped. WinAmp was playing in the background and that stopped. I was able to open task manager and kill Battlefront but much of Windows was non-responsive. I was able to bring up the start menu with the Windows key but clicking on the Windows button or anything inside the menu did nothing. This has happened several times in the last month and it's getting really annoying.

My only current guess for a culprit is DisplayFusion, which I've been running for the past month after getting a new monitor and running my old one in portrait display. But before I write the useful DisplayFusion off and look for a replacement, I'd like to know exactly what is going on with Windows when these crashes occur, and so we come to the reason for my post.

Event Viewer is only showing events since the system was last powered on, and nothing from before. I don't think I've ever seen this before on older systems of mine, it's always showed at least the last few days worth of activity. But this time I can open it up, go to Windows Logs > System and it'll only show maybe five entries when I open it directly after logging in.

I've looked around for possible fixes for this but all I can find is stuff about the log size (not an issue, I've expanded it massively and it's made no difference), and to select "Archive the log when full - do not overwrite events", which I have.

Any ideas as to why on this install of Windows Event Viewer is refusing to show past logs?

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Error in Event Viewer

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



As you have mentioned, you have performed a repair installation on the computer and you see Event 508, 510 and 533 in Event Viewer.



I would like to inform that if you see any critical error in Event Viewer, please share the event logs with us to help you with the appropriate troubleshooting steps. Please follow the steps mentioned below to share the event logs:

1. Press Windows + X from the keyboard, select
   Event Viewer.
   
2. Expand Windows Logs from the left pane and select
   Applications.
   
3. Click Filter Current Log from extreme right pane. Then in the new windows check the box beside
   Error and click OK.
   
4. Now, look for a critical Error in the list and note down the message/information from the
   General Tab in the lower section.
   

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Windows 10 Update Results in "Internal Power Error" on Dell Inspiron 7000 Laptop

Hi,

We would suggest you to run the power troubleshooter and also provide the event viewer and dump files to further troubleshoot the issue.

Try these steps to run the Power troubleshooter.

• Type troubleshooting from the search box and hit Enter.
• Click view all from the left pane and click Power.

Follow the on-screen instructions and check.

Provide us the event viewer logs to know more about the event errors that is caused in the computer.

• Press Win + X key on the keyboard and select
  Event Viewer.
• Click Application logs on the left pane and provide us the events here to further analyze the issue.

Thank you.

 

Clear All Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows  


FWIW CCleaner will clear the Event Viewer Logs - just check the box under Windows>Advanced>Windows Events Logs. run CCleaner and it's that simple. Much faster than most ,bat files I've tried. Just a suggestion.