Microsoft event viewer disable links

You could try disabling the "Windows Event Log" service from the Services console, but you also have to set all its recovery actions to "Take no action" in the "Recovery" tab of the service's properties window and apply this setting.

I would recommend you not to try doing that since some other Windows services depend on that service, stopping it may compromise security and reliability of the system so you will be fully responsible for that. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Applications found in Event Viewer can write their logs to files, viewable in Event Viewer, so disabling Event Viewer shouldn't really do much if anything at all.

Its basically just a viewer hence the name. The processing of those logs and code execution time from applications probably won't change.

If you just don't want someone using it, that's probably the only valid reason, but I would think this would be a thing for Group Policy Editor instead of hacking it out and possibly causing issues. I have the same question 0. Create an AppLocker Rule. Create Your AppLocker Rules. Best Regards,. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and un-mark them if they provide no help.

If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. The problem is AppLocker won't be able to differentiate between the Event Viewer snap-in versus any other snap-in. Believe me, I already thought about that approach.

In short, all you can effectively do with AppLocker unless you enable DLL filtering, which I wouldn't recommend is block all MMC's for that group of users, which is more than was asked for. Okay, so give it a go. Just block eventvwr. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals.

Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Directory Services. Sign in to vote. Hi Guys, I have to block some users so that the can not read event viewer in some set of servers , I want to do this through GPO. Please suggest how can i achieve this.

Regards, Triyambak Regards, Triyambak. Tuesday, July 26, AM. Hi Triyambak, Yes, you can do this with group policy using something called loopback processing.

The procedure, in short, is: Create a security filtering group. Create the group policy.