My situation is that I need to go through all the System events and look for a particular service and account for when it started and stopped.  The one way I am able to identify the specific service from a specific vendor is that they identified their software in the description.  The Event ID for services starting and stopping is 7036.  Using this script, I’m able to get all those vendor specific service stop/start events:

Get-WinEvent -ComputerName <computer> -FilterHashtable @{logname='system'; id=7036} | Where-Object {$_.message -like "*<my text to find>*"}

This may also be helpful:

Get-EventLog -ComputerName <computer> -Log "Security" | where {($_.Message -like '*<search text>*') -and ($_.EntryType -eq 'FailureAudit')}

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