Rapid decrease in space -- Help !!

[dbegmore 0]

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 ..

[Relic 0]

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

[dbegmore 0]

I am and I unistalled it now ..

[dbegmore 0]

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 0]

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 1]

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 0]

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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