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Aaron_J · December 19th, 2001, 09:52 PM

I dual boot WindowsXp pro(5 gig partition D: ) and WindowsMe(35 gig partition C: ) Well I'm on Xp when I just got the message that my drive is almost full. I got suspicious because 99% of my programs get installed on the larger C: and I should have plenty of space left. I do some sleuthing and discover that my D:\windows directory is weighing in at 2.6 gigs!

After further examination I have found the culprit. It's a whopping 1.6 gig text file titled Trace.txt in the following folder:

D:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI

It's the only thing in that folder. Anyone know what the heck this is?

I know that whatever it is there is no way it should be that size but is it safe to delete? I would love to take a look at it but I imagine my system would freak if I tried to open a file that size in wordpad.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

December 19th, 2001, 09:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Aaron_J Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Louisiana Posts: 374	What the?!?! I dual boot WindowsXp pro(5 gig partition D: ) and WindowsMe(35 gig partition C: ) Well I'm on Xp when I just got the message that my drive is almost full. I got suspicious because 99% of my programs get installed on the larger C: and I should have plenty of space left. I do some sleuthing and discover that my D:\windows directory is weighing in at 2.6 gigs! After further examination I have found the culprit. It's a whopping 1.6 gig text file titled Trace.txt in the following folder: D:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI It's the only thing in that folder. Anyone know what the heck this is? I know that whatever it is there is no way it should be that size but is it safe to delete? I would love to take a look at it but I imagine my system would freak if I tried to open a file that size in wordpad. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Last edited by Aaron_J : December 19th, 2001 at 09:54 PM.