A buddy of mine found a temp file on his hard drive that, needless to say, was taking up a bit of space — 77.5 gigabytes.
Click on the image below if you don’t believe me.
Anybody know what could create a temp file this large?
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A buddy of mine found a temp file on his hard drive that, needless to say, was taking up a bit of space — 77.5 gigabytes.
Click on the image below if you don’t believe me.
Anybody know what could create a temp file this large?
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Okay, I’ll admit – I’m the one with this “little” problem today!
I also posted a note at Lockergnome Forums, had this disturbing reply post from ‘Wolf’:
There is a utility that MS put out called Boot Vis, that causes the symptoms you are describing. I ran into serious problems with this utility, as it would run at startup (it monitors how files are being loaded during startup (and actually, as long as it’s running) and allows you to make adjustments to how these files start – supposedly allowing you to optimize the way files and programs start up for a faster start time), and continue to run. It uses a temp file, that it constantly adds too, so by the end of the day, I had a HUGE temp file hogging almost ALL of my drive space. When you shut down and reboot, it recreates the temp file and starts fresh.
The problem I ran into with this program, is that once it was started, it COULDN’T BE STOPPED! It just continues to run. I tried everything – uninstalling, deleteing all file parts, turning off system restore, and then deleteing all parts of the file.. I even tried to talk to MS about it (they don’t care – they don’t provide support for the utility – even though they put it out). The program would not go away, and it started no matter what I did. In the end, I wound up having to reformat the HD and then re-install Windows to get rid of it…
If you installed BootVis from MS, you can try uninstalling it, and turning it off in the services, and even deleting the files (after turning off system restore). I doubt you’ll be able to get rid of it short of a reformat.
If you are not willing to reformat, be prepared to reboot at least once a day to let the utility erase and recreate the temp file.
I hope this helps!
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Take Care and God Bless!
Wolf
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NOOOO! AAAAh!
I know someone else had this problem, although I don’t think it was BootVis that caused the problem – she wouldn’t have been the sort of person to run that kind of program.
I’ve personally never had any problems with BootVis.
Well, it was a McAfee problem (see my posting on Lockergnome’s Windows Forums if you’re interested) and I just, after 5 HOURS in queue on their online help desk, had the woman step me through the steps to scrape the old VirusScan out of the system, then went online and downloaded the new one. Reboot didn’t bring the problem – we’ll see if it’s a permanent fix. I said repeatedly they should push a fix to ALL users, she said “We’ll look forward to that”(? Are they making more advanced bots these days?)
Sheesh!;-)
I have the probnlem at the moment too, with BootVis, but bootvis can be stopped… although you have to do it each time your computer reboots… start up bootvis, and tell it to stop tracing. I havent figured out a way to make it not start up next time you boot, but there must be one…
I found the way to stop bootvis , hdd format , nothing else works
Guys,
there is an answer check it here :-
http://mike-devlin.com/windows/
(Caused by running bootvis program with tracing enabled “I found and eliminated the issue through the registry key – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WMI\GlobalLogger has its start value defaulting to “1” this had been set by bootvis)” Change the 1 to a 0 and no more problem.
This fixed it for me