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My event viewer is slow to open – feels like 20-30 seconds or so.
This post here indicates that others have found the same thing.
The post has a workaround – copy the eventvwr.msc from Windows\System32 on an XP system, and it will run the XP style event view on Windows 7. This starts almost instantly, but of course it does not provide the nice error summary of the new version, so you can’t have it both ways!
Unlike the advice in the post I copy the file to another folder rather than System32, such as System Management, as it is a separate addition. I renamed it EventVwrClassic.msc.
You can just make a shortcut to it to run it. Unlike the standard windows 7 one, it will pop the UAC dialog to ask you to approve the privilege increase, even if you set the shortcut to run as administrator.