Software That Logs What Is Taking Up Space?

[dcf-joe]

Hello guys. One of our technicians has a laptop that is literally filling up its Temp folder in the Windows folder with .log files to the point where he will literally have 0 MB of free space left on the hard drive.

I have written a simple script for him that will delete everything in the Temp folder which will free up tens of gigabytes for him, but a week later we arrive at the same problem, too many .log files in the Temp folder.

Do you guys know what is going on? Maybe there is some freeware that I can use that will log what exactly is creating those .log files?

 

[newtekie1]

Can't you open the log files in notepad or notepad++ and see what is in them? It should give you a pretty good clue about what is creating them.

 

[dcf-joe]

Can't you open the log files in notepad or notepad++ and see what is in them? It should give you a pretty good clue about what is creating them.

I tried that, but whatever is contained in the files is a bunch of gibberish.

I did some Googling, and I deleted a certain registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\Logging

We will see if that works.

 

[dcf-joe]

Update: The guy told me that his laptop's hard drive is no longer filling itself up. Seems like deleting that registry key from the above post fixed the issue. Apparently one of the .NET framework installations got borked and was telling Windows to log any and everything until it ran out of space.

 

[StefanM]

Check out:
http://www.nirsoft.net/
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

They have monitoring tools for every purpose.

 

[the54thvoid]

Treesize Free software is good for that purpose (even though the issue is now addressed).

 

[AsRock]

Treesize Free software is good for that purpose (even though the issue is now addressed).

+1 Treesize, never failed me.

 

[qubit]

Windirstat is another great free utility for checking the space used by files.