PowerShell V2 ships with two sets of cmdlets for processing event logs, one is *-EventLog set and other is Get-WinEvent. PS > gcm *EventLog -CommandType cmdlet CommandType Name Definition ----------- ---- ---------- Cmdlet Clear-EventLog Clear-EventLog [-LogName] <String[]> [[-Computer... Cmdlet Get-EventLog Get-EventLog [-LogName] <String> [[-InstanceId] ... Cmdlet Limit-EventLog Limit...