Add Event Viewer Item to Computer’s Right Click Menu in Windows Vista/XP

Currently, in both Windows Vista and Windows XP, you have to click on Start button, then Control Panel, then subsequently Administrative Tools before you can access Event Viewer, or in Windows Vista, you can type in “Event Viewer” in the instant search box. Both ways involves plenty of clicks or keystrokes. Here’s the trick to add a new menu item “Event Viewer” to the context menu that appears when you right click on My Computer icon.

Download eventviewer.zip with eventviewer.reg from the forum, unpack and then double click on it to merge the registry key to the Windows registry. In Windows Vista, give permission to UAC prompt. After that, you can simply right click on My Computer (or Computer in Windows Vista) and click on “Event Viewer” to open it directly.

Alternatively, open Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Event Viewer\command

If you cannot find “Event Viewer” and “command” registry key, create new registry key. Then modify the default value data inside “command” registry key to “eventvwr” (without quotes).

You can also copy and paste the following text to a text editor (Notepad) and save the file with a .reg extension. Then a double click will merge the data into registry.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Event Viewer\command]
@="eventvwr"


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