[I posted this yesterday elsewhere. Maybe someone of this group
could kindly help me or refer me to the proper group.]

Hello,

If I power up my computer and do nothing, then I would expect that
the free disk space should remain constant, or essentially so (due
to some log file lengthening). However, I found with estonishment
that this is far from being true. As can be seen from figures in the
attachment, in the 6 test runs I lost a total of some 18 MB free
disk space through doing nothing! Could someone please explain
how this could happen? Is this a common phenomenon? Most puzzling
for me are the results of the first 3 test runs. Since the computer
was disconnected from the internet, it can be entirely excluded
that any downloads from the internet were done (e.g. for software
updates) in the background without my being noticed.

Regards,

M. K. Shen

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Auto updates and buts would be suspect.

"Mok-Kong Shen" wrote in message
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John Fullbright wrote:

Auto updates couldn't be the cause. In my Tests 1-3 the computer
was disconneted from the internet, the cable being pulled out, but
nevertheless the phenomen toke place. (Excuse me for not knowing
the term buts.)

Mok-Kong

If you have a Virus Scanner, which will run at boot, then it will probably
log into a log file who grows and therefore consumes space.
And... this is just an example, there are many services / applications which
log into various log files which will grow...

rgds,
Edwin.

"Mok-Kong Shen" wrote in message
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Bits is background intelligent transfer service.

Lot's of technologies use BITS, but if you're not internet connected, that
won't be it. Content indexing if you have it turned on could be the
culprit. Other things could be virus scanning as Edwin states, or if you no
not have a fixed size page file it could be growth of the page file.

John

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John Fullbright wrote:

I can well understand that log files grow. However, the amount
consumed couldn't in normal cases be so much as I got in my
experiment. I work in these days very little with my computer,
in order not to lose too much free disk space. Nevertheless
I have lost quite an amount. Currently dir gives 226.465.562.624,
which is a reduction of 215 MB with respect to the time of
my first test. I can't imagine that there could be that much
log information recorded in the period (rough estimate 6 hours)
that my computer is powered on from the time of my first test
to the current moment.

Mok-Kong

Mok-Kong Shen wrote:

[snip]

Following a suggestion I got elsewhere, I installed Spybot.
It found over 60 problematic items, which were said to be Cookies
(which I interpreted to mean not being spyware as such). After
removing these, I was surprised to find that "dir"-command
gave 228.194.070.528, which is even much bigger than the
figure at the time of my first test reported (226.668.072.960).
Of course, as layman I don't understand what has actually
happened. But anyway, my original fear, that my free disk
space would be fairly quickly exhausted, is (at least for
the moment) gone.

Mok-Kong

Mok-Kong Shen wrote in news:g9e5am$pr8$00$1
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Google "Procmon", monitor just file I/O events and you should see what is
writing out files and consuming disk space.

Adam

I would check your dr watson log. I have seen some of our logs get as large
as 60 gb.

"Adam Leinss" wrote: