Fixes #12638 - Fix broken examples

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PR Summary

Fix broken examples

• Fixes AB#543607
• Fixes get-winevent -filterxpath example 16 doesn't work #12638

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reference/5.1/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	✅Succeeded	View (powershell-5.1)
reference/7.4/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	✅Succeeded	View (powershell-7.4)
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Pull request overview

This PR attempts to fix broken examples in the Get-WinEvent cmdlet documentation across multiple PowerShell versions (5.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6). The primary focus was on fixing HTML entity encoding issues in XPath queries, but the changes introduce several critical bugs.

• Fixed HTML entity encoding display issues (but incorrectly changed the operator logic)
• Reformatted long lines for better readability
• Introduced incorrect file path references

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 17 comments.

File	Description
reference/7.6/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	Attempted to fix XPath operator encoding but changed logic from <= to >=, breaking the example; changed LogName to incorrect Logname casing
reference/7.5/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	Same XPath operator issue; also introduced broken file paths by changing About folder to lowercase about and incorrectly lowercasing filenames; changed LogName to Logname; reformatted code indentation
reference/7.4/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	XPath operator issue and line reformatting changes
reference/5.1/Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics/Get-WinEvent.md	XPath operator issue and line reformatting changes

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