The Windows log viewer is designed to make things a lot harder than they should be.

This small, free and easy to use does a lot better…especially if you’re experiencing problems and even better, everything the program can do is easily accessible through the menu and right click keys.

There’s a really good review here: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/22/logwizard-windows-log-viewer/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1839%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1wxl

There’s a very clear introductory article here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1023815/LogWizard-a-Log-Viewer-that-is-easy-and-fun-to-use

You can download it here (note there is a 32 and 64 bit edition): https://github.com/jtorjo/logwizard/releases