[TheTOM_SK]

Hi, I would like to disable all logging to gain some performance.
So far I have disabled services like Event Log and WMI logging:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM]
"Logging"="0"

But there are still log files creating with extensions: evm, etl and log:

C:\Windows\inf\setupapi.app.log 516.48 kBytes
C:\Windows\System32\config\system.LOG1 256.00 kBytes
C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Scm\SCM.EVM 128.00 kBytes
C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Scm\SCM.EVM.1 192.00 kBytes 
C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Scm\SCM.EVM.2 160.00 kBytes
C:\Windows\System32\WDI\LogFiles\BootCKCL.etl 7 7.25 MB
C:\Windows\System32\WDI\LogFiles\ShutdownCKCL.etl 
C:\Windows\System32\WDI\LogFiles\WdiContextLog.etl.001 
C:\Windows\System32\WDI\LogFiles\WdiContextLog.etl.002
C:\Windows\System32\WDI\LogFiles\WdiContextLog.etl.003

This post has been edited by TheTOM_SK: 21 January 2007 - 06:25 AM

[Departed]

Bumping an old topic, as I'd like to know how also.

Pardon if it's already been covered, been trying to search for it but having no luck.

Performance gain would be nice, but it's not what I'm after. The files stay locked on my drive, some unable to be defragmented, or moved at all for that matter, and it's really impeding my defragmentation routine which is too long to bother explaining, so pardon my bluntness.

This post has been edited by Departed: 20 May 2007 - 01:36 AM

[Departed]

No one knows? D:

I guess I'll resort to failing google searches again.

[cluberti]

You do realize that logs are still being generated when you disable services and logging, but just not written to disk? This is akin to disabling perfmon counter objects - the data is still collected, but you just can't query it anymore.

Oh, and if anything on your box requires writing to the event log in the future, you've just generated a system hang or bugcheck by disabling the event log service. Just an FYI.

[nishantcop]

can any one tell me how to disable log entries into "c:\windows\inf\setupapi.app.log" file

so that no entry can be made by OS insde this file...