Event Viewer Windows Logs Application receives old APPCRASH messages

Problem

Are there a lot of APPCRASH messages in the Windows Logs / Application section of the Event Viewer?

And the same messages keep coming back and reappearing? Then you have error messages that are "stuck" in de windows log system.

Solution

It is not enough to just "clear" the messages in the Event Viewer application itself. You must run Disk Cleanup.

In Disk Cleanup, there is a option "Clean up system files", choose that. After that you will see the entry "System created Windows Error Reporting" (and also select System error memory dump files). That will clean up the log messages that are stuck in de Windows Event Viewer. Now the old messages will not reappear again.