WTH IS going on

[Crash893]

okay just did a virus scan and nothing but i have a

"trace.log" that is 27,600,224,256 kb and apears to be growing

it also wont let me delete it?


"cannot delete trace: it is being used by another person or program

close any programs that might be using thie file

its path is

c:\windows\system32\logfiles\wmi


anyideas

[nihili]

Might this be it?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/tracelog-o.asp

sounds like you're running tracelog and you can't delete the file because tracelog.exe is writing to it.

[Cowboy Shane]

TechIMO (http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7403&highlight=trace) forum has some ideas about the problem. The registry edit on the second page of discussion seems to have worked best.

[Crash893]

yea but how could it get that big

[Cowboy Shane]

I've written infinate loops while writing data to text files. With the speed of a modern computer, it takes no time at all to build up large files. From what people were saying in the forum I linked, it looks like some sort of logger went nuts and started logging everything. Have you run bootvis lately? That appeared to be a commonality among the respondents toward the end of the linked thread.

[Crash893]

why infact i have

i wish there was some way to just override it and delete it

i hate permission errors

[Crash893]

all is well

there is a stop tracking option in boot vis

i guess my computer being on for like 26 days didnt help

but when i restarted the log was gone