Solution Definition

How to clear Windows Eventlogs from Powershell? That question I had solved with my previous post but now I have ported the script into Powershell. During my Windows 7 development of a WIM image I wanted to clear the logs after the image was restored. I am using several PowerShell scripts and adding this command line helped me to have a clean start of logs.

Requirements

• Make sure you open a PowerShell with Windows 7 elevated privileges
• Create a ps1 file based on the script below.

Script

 $logs = wevtutil el $logs | foreach-object {invoke-expression -command "wevtutil cl '$_'"} 

References

• Windows 7 recipe: clear windows eventviewer logs