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Archive for July 28th, 2026

PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – Ashley McGlone – disappeared from blogs.technet.microsoft.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28

This post originally appeared on [Wayback/Archive] PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – GoateePFE – Archived, but due to link rot got lost including the images. I restored this post from the Wayback Machine archived version including the comments so the content gets re-indexed in search engines as this was one of the few posts detailing how to filter and extract XML from Windows Event logs using PowerShell.

I needed this content for a future blog post that is going to appear in a day or so: Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume

Queries:

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Posted in .NET, Software Development, Development, CommandLine, Power User, PowerShell, Scripting, Windows, PowerShell | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on syncing/transferring Android apps and settings to another phone

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28

Because of my tweet series starting at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Migrating from an Android phone to a new Android phone is still a horrible experience. Most apps need you to re-authenticate. Few support password managers. Even fewer migrate settings well (like browser bookmarks and open tabs, launcher preferences, backup folders, etc)”

Since then I assisted a few other migrations as well, so below are the notes I made during the migrations.

First about migration apps:

Application and settings notes after transfering data through OnePlus Clone Phone from migrating phones of multiple people:

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Posted in Power User, *nix, Android Devices, Monitoring, Uptimerobot, OnePlus Six, hetrixtools, PagerDuty | Leave a Comment »