Rapid decrease in space -- Help !!
This is a discussion about Rapid decrease in space -- Help !! in the Windows Software category; 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. . Location - C:\Windows\System32\logfiles\wmi\trace.
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 ..
Location -
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 ..
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 ..
Location -
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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Are you running bootvis? If so, remove it, see if that fixes the prob.
OP
I am and I unistalled it now ..
OP
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.
New info::
The log file clears itself on booting but then starts taking space again. Its still going on after un-installing bootvis.
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
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
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>
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>
OP
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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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
Read Full Story at TweakXP.com
