There are situations where you wanted to exclude certain sources (event providers) when analyzing Windows Event Logs. For example, in figure 1 below, say you wanted to exclude events from Lib_SLP and still see the rest, how would you do that? Figure 1. Source is Lib_SLP First, head over to Details tab, XML View . Observe the XML structure - we are interested to the System | Provider elements. Figure 2. XML VIew To filter out that provider, click on Filter Current Log.. and type the following: Figure 3. XML Filter View < QueryList > < Query Id = "0" Path = "Application" > < Select Path = "Application" > *[System[Provider[@Name!="Lib_SLP"]]] </ Select > </ Query > </ QueryList > REF: T:001