Rapid decrease in space -- Help !!

Windows Software 5498 This topic was started by dbegmore, 2006-05-05 16:50

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2006-05-05 18:50

Hi,

The space on my C; partition started to decrease rapidly today even though the pc was idle. After browsing through the directory I found the following ..

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C:\Windows\System32\logfiles\wmi\trace.txt

The file mentioned above was increasing in size every minute by 1 or 2 mb ... it now is 700 MB. I will delete the file but i thought id ask you guys if it was safe before deleting.

Also tell me which app could be using the log ..

Thanks ..

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Relic

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#155450

2006-05-05 19:28

Are you running bootvis? If so, remove it, see if that fixes the prob.

dbegmore

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#155451

2006-05-05 20:36

I am and I unistalled it now ..

dbegmore

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#155452

2006-05-06 14:02

Any help here ?

New info::

The log file clears itself on booting but then starts taking space again. Its still going on after un-installing bootvis.

Relic

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#155453

2006-05-06 21:10

I'm at a loss here, I don't have that folder on my system. Anyhow, after searching around, found another fix to try:

Change this registry key setting to "0", which turns of the logger, hopefully that does it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WMI
Start REG_DWORD 0

Wilhelmus

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#155454

2006-05-06 22:11

If Relic's fix does not work, try this:

Click Start then Run. Type: cmd

Type to prompt:
%systemroot%\system32\logman query -ets

Look for wmi,trace or related and note its name.
(I don't have it enabled, so I cannot say what is its name...)

Now type these, where <collection> is from previous command:

First stop logging:
logman stop <collection>
Then delete the log:
logman delete <collection>

dbegmore

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#155455

2006-05-07 02:01

Thanks guys .. i did some gooogling and found that it was to do with bootvis ... before unistalling it .. tracing should have been stopped ..

Inflated TRACE.LOG problem, how to fix.
Posted 8/12/2002 by TweakXP Member
After running the MS Bootvis utility, the file C:\WINDOWS\System32\LogFiles\WMI\trace.log becomes hugely inflated.

The file shrinks on reboting but may rapidly grow to a few gig's in size, to cure the problem run BootVis again and click Trace-->Stop Tracing, the file will now stop growing and may be safely deleted.

The MSBootVis utility may be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/default.asp
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