Xp Bloat


OmarNawaz

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Hiya

something very strange happened to me my XP install is 0n 4 5gb partition I XPLited it and after updates it came to something like 1.5GB been using it for a couple of days happily

Now I left Bitlord running woke up and my XP has bloated to fill up the partition of 5.8GB :eek: it appears to be the system32 folder its at 4.17 GB even though I have deleted Driver Cache Service Pack Source Files

Can anyone help me in this mystery :huh:

Oh yeah I was playing around BootVis last night could that be the root of my problems?

Thanks
 
Oh dear, that is gonna be difficult to fix.
I don't think that bootvis could do that - I thought all bootvis did was make logs of what was happening when you booted - so that stuff could be more efficienty ordered.

Search through your System32 folder it should not be that big. Something is very very wrong? Duplicates?

Don't just go deleting random things though.
 
trooper posted on Mar 25 2006 at 01:27 AM said:
Crap cleaner is good for cleaning out.. erm crap too.

Trooper

Thanks for the tip, I've just lost nearly 50MB of crap.
 
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ahhhhh

i found the roo of my problems took ages looking through all the folders it was a 4.4gb trace log file :blink: :eek: should have had a look a it before i deleted it but me delted it in my haste

found it in system32 me thinks had to do with bootvis must have been monitoring something or the other

this is why i find xp worrying if there a way i can lock the xp system files so nothing can create new folders
 
OmarNawaz posted on Mar 25 2006 at 03:30 PM said:
ahhhhh

i found the roo of my problems took ages looking through all the folders it was a 4.4gb trace log file :blink: :eek: should have had a look a it before i deleted it but me delted it in my haste

found it in system32 me thinks had to do with bootvis must have been monitoring something or the other

this is why i find xp worrying if there a way i can lock the xp system files so nothing can create new folders
Yeah that sounds about right, it must have messed up when creating the log file somehow.
 
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trooper posted on Mar 25 2006 at 09:39 AM said:
(naw)mcx posted on Mar 25 2006 at 03:28 PM said:
I used crap cleaner and cleared about 4 gb or 7 gb out.  Lol

What, You mean it uninstalled windows for you. :rolleyes:

Trooper
hhahahaahahha

I should probably delete windows but I need my Counter-Strike (150 fps in Win 30-90 fps in WINE)
 
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alright im gettin realllyyyy paranoid here the mysterious log file is back!!!!

system32/Logfiles/WMI/trace.log

4.4gb!!!!!

and i cant view it because its tooo big for notepad WTF

THEYRE WATCHING!!! HEYRE WATCHING I TELLS YAA ARRGGHHHHHHH!!!! ::runs arounds room frantically::

I uninstalled Bootvis aswell

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../tracelog-o.asp

this does nothing to make me less paranoid
 
OmarNawaz posted on Mar 26 2006 at 03:20 PM said:
alright im gettin realllyyyy paranoid here the mysterious log file is back!!!!

system32/Logfiles/WMI/trace.log

4.4gb!!!!!

and i cant view it because its tooo big for notepad WTF

THEYRE WATCHING!!! HEYRE WATCHING I TELLS YAA ARRGGHHHHHHH!!!! ::runs arounds room frantically::

I uninstalled Bootvis aswell

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../tracelog-o.asp

this does nothing to make me less paranoid
First of all learn to type.

Secondly, behold the power of google.
"If you leave the bootvis tracing enabled, and then remove bootvis - guess
what! The trace file keeps getting larger and larger. Reinstall bootvis,
turn OFF the trace log - then uninstall bootvis."
 
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Hanz™ posted on Mar 26 2006 at 05:55 PM said:
OmarNawaz posted on Mar 26 2006 at 03:20 PM said:
alright im gettin realllyyyy paranoid here the mysterious log file is back!!!!

system32/Logfiles/WMI/trace.log

4.4gb!!!!!

and i cant view it because its tooo big for notepad WTF

THEYRE WATCHING!!! HEYRE WATCHING I TELLS YAA ARRGGHHHHHHH!!!! ::runs arounds room frantically::

I uninstalled Bootvis aswell

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../tracelog-o.asp

this does nothing to make me less paranoid
First of all learn to type.

Secondly, behold the power of google.
"If you leave the bootvis tracing enabled, and then remove bootvis - guess
what! The trace file keeps getting larger and larger. Reinstall bootvis,
turn OFF the trace log - then uninstall bootvis."


I admit the capitals was too much but my typing is fine :p

anyway thanks for the help i thought it must be something like that ;)
 
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