Tracelog Problems

[in54n3]

in the name of god, help me.
ok so i dono what the hell it is, but theres a thing called tracelog with windows xp, and it makes a log file in
c:\windows\system 32\log files\wmi\trace.log

and it grows bigger and bigger until i have no space on my hard drive (WHICH IS 120GIGS BIG)

so i had a 80gig text file.

so i looked around online and i found this thing called resource kit and u run it and type tracelog -x and it stops it and u restart it goes away, but it came back again


what the hell do i do

please help, im so confused and pissed off lol

[evil_penguin]

thats weird, are you an admin? i am admin on my pc and I did not have that folder

[in54n3]

yeah im admin

[ElrichMeister]

i dont have that folder as well, im my system 32 folder, have scanned it for anything?

[evil_penguin]

might be spy ware, do you have adware or spy bot, maybe get a fire wall. or is it a company comp? try hijack this, might figure out whats happening. or ctr-alt-delete and see what process you have going, it could even be a window's service... try that stuff

[in54n3]

theres no wierd processes running, ive scanned with adaware, spybot, pestpatrol

havent tried hijack this

[ElrichMeister]

did you try deleting the folder completely and seeing what happens

[in54n3]

thats what i did, hasnt come back yet

[Ominous Gamer]

Google (http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=%22wmi%5Ctrace.log%22&btnG=Google+Search) ;)

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

[in54n3]

omfg bootvis

i remember installing that ************************!!! and it made my comp freeze


damn, you're good man

[evil_penguin]

if it is service pack 2, go to the security center, click fire wall options, click advanced and in there is settings for the trace log size and if to allow it at all.

but if that other stuff worked, well this post is done.

[in54n3]

thats something else, the filename for that is differnet


and, it came back


I HATE WINDOWS

[in54n3]

yeah its still coming back................i have NO IDEA what it is

[NotMyBest2Day]

Don't hate Windows..hate XP. :p 2k works plenty fine for me, and is rock-solid. It might even perform better than XP in benchies simply because it uses far less resources.