Here are two methods that seem to work:
An actual way of removing it is from registry, so Start->Run... and type regedit and click OK From Regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->System->CurrentControlSet->Control->WMI->GlobalLogger' and there you should find a key names "Start" double click it and you can give it a new value, put a zero instead of the 1 that is there. Now windows won't start the logger at startup. Got a bit annoying, in less than a day it ate over 5 gigs...
Second solution is:
During boot, press F8 twice to get startup options.
Select safe mode, with command prompt
log -on as administrator
At the prompt, navigate to Windows\system32\logfiles\wmi\trace.log (you still can't delete the file at this stage.) use the command "attrib +r trace.log" without the quotes (this stops windows altering this file anymore!
Restart windows normally
Go to the file in file-manager/explorer
Delete file
Create a new trace.log file (using notepad, and save it in the same directory where you deleted the original)
right click the file, and change attributes to read only
You should now have a file, sized 0 Kb, which can't be changed!
I hope this is helps.
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