Find User Login In Event Viewer

Jul 19, 2017 · After you enable logon auditing, Windows records those logon events—along with a username and timestamp—to the Security log. You can view these events using Event Viewer. Hit Start, type “event,” and then click the “Event Viewer” result. In the “Event Viewer” window, in the left-hand pane, navigate to the Windows Logs > Security.

May 16, 2019 · Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type eventvwr.msc into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Event Viewer. In the left pane of Event Viewer, open Windows Logs and System, right click or press and hold on System, and click/tap on Filter Current Log.

Sep 10, 2012 · In order to search the Windows Event Log for logins by username you will need to be using Windows Server 2008. The following steps will allow you to search the Windows Event log for logins by username. Open event viewer and select the Security Logs. Select filter current log in the Actions pane. Select XML tab. Select ‘Edit query manually’.

Open Filter Security Event Log and to track user logon session, set filter Security Event Log for the following Event ID’s: • Logon – 4624 (An account was successfully logged on) • Logoff – 4647 (User initiated logoff) • Startup – 6005 (The Event log service was started)

Dec 22, 2015 · Logon and Logoff events for a PC running Vista or above are logged to the Security section of Event Viewer. If you’re looking for a particular event at a particular time, you can browse through manually with a bit of filtering in the Event Viewer GUI and find what you need. On a larger scale though, this doesn’t make sense.

Jan 15, 2016 · When Active Directory (AD) auditing is setup properly, each of these logon and logoff events are recorded in the event log of where the event happened from. With enough scripting kung-fu or specialized software we could, fairly easily, pull all of these logon and logoff events since each event …

Nov 24, 2017 · When we open Event Viewer in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, double click any security events, User field in the Event shows the Username who generated that event. However, in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, this behavior has been changed to N/A, this is a by production design.

Aug 20, 2008 · Plus, prior to Windows Vista, there is no workstation lock event at all, only an unlock event, which is constructed in a way which makes it difficult to correlate with the original logon event. So the bottom line is, I don't advocate or recommend this method for tracking the time a user …

Dec 13, 2017 · To find the Shutdown log in Windows 10, do the following. Press the Win + R keys together on the keyboard to open the Run dialog, type eventvwr.msc , and press the Enter key. In Event Viewer, select Windows Logs -> System on the left.