Update: I’m told that this command-line option works in Windows 7, as well.  So it’s not a change for Windows 8/2012.  I just didn’t have a Windows 7 machine handy to test it.

The command-line parameters for the Event Viewer have changed in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012, I assume).  To launch Event Viewer to connect to another machine from the command-line, execute the following:

eventvwr -computer:<hostname>

1	eventvwr -computer:<hostname>

I just ran Sysinternals’ strings.exe command to determine how to do this.  If I figure out more of the parameters, I’ll update this post.

Rob

This post was migrated from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2012/07/02/eventvwr-command-line-parameters-in-windows-8/.

I created a Windows Service installer using WiX and included a custom action that called PowerShell to run a script.  Unfortunately, I called the script with the wrong parameters and then the service would not uninstall.  So, I tried a lot of different tricks and finally found a recommendation on the web to run the sc.exe command with the delete parameter.  This was the only solution that worked, so I thought I’d share it here.  I executed:

sc delete "My Service Name"

1	sc delete "My Service Name"

Note that to execute the same command from PowerShell, you must specify the full path to sc.exe because PowerShell has a default alias for sc assigning it to Set-Content.  I executed it as follows:

C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe delete "My Service Name"

1	C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe delete "My Service Name"

I hope this saves someone else some grief in the future.

Rob

This post was migrated from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2012/06/07/deleting-windows-services-that-wont-uninstall/.