Do away with all the Log Files

Is there a small script that will delete all the installation Logs scattered
throught the windows directories. Some of these are pretty large and I
doubt they are needed after the image is built and stable.

If not, I guess since all my clones will be exact duplicates of my "Golden"
image I could delete them all manually.


Richard

You can delete most of them offline, without problems.

Regards,
Slobodan

"Richard" <S@S.com> wrote in message news:%23L4i8XKXEHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Is there a small script that will delete all the installation Logs scattered
> throught the windows directories. Some of these are pretty large and I
> doubt they are needed after the image is built and stable.
>
> If not, I guess since all my clones will be exact duplicates of my "Golden"
> image I could delete them all manually.
>
>
> Richard
>
>

Richard,

I don't think such script exists unless someone has created it.

You can definitely delete the log files manually (online or offline) or
create a simple batch that will do the job.
The files you are likely going to wipe out are \windows\fba\fbalog.txt,
\windows\setupapi.log, \windows\setuperr.log, even \windows\*.log.
You can also clean up Event logs (system/application/security).

However, I don't think deleteling the files above will give you much
additional space.

KM

> Is there a small script that will delete all the installation Logs
scattered
> throught the windows directories. Some of these are pretty large and I
> doubt they are needed after the image is built and stable.
>
> If not, I guess since all my clones will be exact duplicates of my
"Golden"
> image I could delete them all manually.
>
>
> Richard
>
>

Great, Thanks. I'm down to 94 megs and still trimming. With all the
additional drivers, application, and files I'm about 120 megs without
compression so I'm he


"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> I don't think such script exists unless someone has created it.
>
> You can definitely delete the log files manually (online or offline) or
> create a simple batch that will do the job.
> The files you are likely going to wipe out are \windows\fba\fbalog.txt,
> \windows\setupapi.log, \windows\setuperr.log, even \windows\*.log.
> You can also clean up Event logs (system/application/security).
>
> However, I don't think deleteling the files above will give you much
> additional space.
>
> KM
>
> > Is there a small script that will delete all the installation Logs
> scattered
> > throught the windows directories. Some of these are pretty large and I
> > doubt they are needed after the image is built and stable.
> >
> > If not, I guess since all my clones will be exact duplicates of my
> "Golden"
> > image I could delete them all manually.
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
>
>