Windows Vista and Exported Event Log Files

Here on the Performance Team, we recently had a discussion about the pains associated with viewing exported Event Log (.evt) files from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 on a Windows Vista machine.
In order to increase the usability of these files within the Windows Vista Event Viewer, the best thing to do is convert them to the new Event Log file format - .evtx.

Of course, if you open up a .evt file on a Windows Vista machine, you are presented with the following banner message at the top of the window as well as the option to navigate from one page through the next instead of being able to scroll down through all the events at once:

source: mstn.homedns.org

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