diskspace leak

[apru]

help! My system conintuously loses diskspace until it
has to be rebooted.(hp Paviliaon 753n, 512MBrm, 2.53ghz,
533mhz fsb, 8gb disk, WInXP Pro all patches). When i
restart the system I have 18.6GB free but each day I lose
about 3GB or more. I have all updates installed, have
scanned for viruses using Panda and AVG and removed all
questionable, non-microsoft startup programs and
services. Neverhteless, I am unable to determine the
cause of the diskpace problem. Any Ideas?

A

 

[Guest]

Could be system restore

 

[Richard Urban]

Search for a file called trace.xxx

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[apru]

I located trace.log though i'm unable to open it using either notepad of
word. its too big for notepad at around 4GB and its errors out in a
nondescriptive way, ie, 'serious file error encountered' when i open with
word. there are no other trace files found. next steps?

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[Richard Urban]

That's your problem! You ran bootvis. That is the trace.log that the program
produces. Go into bootvis and turn off tracing. Reboot. Delete the log file.


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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[apru]

Thanks Richard,

As is said 'you hit the nail right on the head' - thx