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by luc geurts

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Have Windows XP running on one of the machines in our testlab. Now we have the fiollowing problem. When working on the PC, after some time, lets say 6 to 8 hours we get an message saying the C: is full.
Strange because thath one has about 4 GB freespace. Had a look. We found a file called trace.log in the foler c:\windows\system32\logfiles\wmi\. Windows Management Instrumenation. And now he tricky part, we dont know how to put it of!
Had a look in performance but nothing is running there. Nomonitoring or something like that. Did a regedit, cant find \logfiles\trace.log. Nothing.
In our case we will have to reinstall. But if this happens again? Can someone help?

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by dklippert

Here are a couple of suggestions:

Turn off logging in the Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Performance.

If you ran the Microsoft bootvis.exe program to analyze your startup time, then failed to go back and run it a second time to view the results, it starts logging at each bootup and won't stop until you run it again to look at the results.
Reboot your computer to reset the log file, then run bootvis.exe. No more logging will occur, and you can delete the trace.log file.

Here?s a site that has listed a lot of looging functions for XP. If the above failed to work, you might look at:

http://www2.cajun.net/~theriots/blk/win_xp_logfiles.htm

(There are no spaces in the URL)

by luc geurts

Doug, very much a big thank you. Great website to. It helped because Bootvis indeed had run and wasn't stopped properly.
Sincerely yours, Luc.

PS If I ever can help? Don't hesitate.

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