Hi,
Last week i came across a tool, called ELDUMP, (EventLog Dump). This is a tool to fetch your event log entries from windows machines. You can have a look at http://www.ibt.ku.dk/jesper/ELDump/default.htm
It is very faster in fetching the entries. More over, there are lot of arguments we can pass which makes our job very simpler.
The sample format of its output is as follows,
C:Documents and Settingspandian>eldump
070523 09:37:02 ISService Information None 27 NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM ACS
070523 09:41:28 ccProxy Information None 26 NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM ACS Application starting
070523 09:41:28 ccSetMgr Information None 26 NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM ACS Application starting
070523 09:41:28 ISService Information None 26 NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM ACS