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alligator_al · July 24th, 2002, 06:40 PM

Yes it's a logging tool. By default it saves to \system32\logfiles\wmi\trace.log and in my case it was the NT Kernel Logger that was running. I haven't been able to check what it was logging yet, and I don't know how it was started (I didn't even have the necessary software).

Since then, I have also turned off windows error reporting (which, although pointless and irritating, could surely not have generated such huge logs?)

Another thing that occured to me is that I'm running XP home PREINSTALLED on a Dell 4100 laptop. Could this be a proprietary performance log to assist their support people? Is anyone else with this problem running a preinstall of XP?

I just can't understand why this isn't all over the web. There must be some pretty large HDDs out there if people don't miss the odd gigabyte or three!!!

July 24th, 2002, 06:40 PM	#35 (permalink)
alligator_al Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 100	Yes it's a logging tool. By default it saves to \system32\logfiles\wmi\trace.log and in my case it was the NT Kernel Logger that was running. I haven't been able to check what it was logging yet, and I don't know how it was started (I didn't even have the necessary software). Since then, I have also turned off windows error reporting (which, although pointless and irritating, could surely not have generated such huge logs?) Another thing that occured to me is that I'm running XP home PREINSTALLED on a Dell 4100 laptop. Could this be a proprietary performance log to assist their support people? Is anyone else with this problem running a preinstall of XP? I just can't understand why this isn't all over the web. There must be some pretty large HDDs out there if people don't miss the odd gigabyte or three!!!