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Offline Littlefrog

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Temp and Log Files Choking Computer
« on: April 02, 2014, 10:36:45 pm »
I had a lot of help with a previous problem from Shane for which I am very thankful.  Now an old annoyance is becoming a serious problem. 

Win 7 Professional 64Bit platform kept updated until the last few weeks.

Within a few minutes of working with the computer is starts to slow down to a crawl.  If I look at the log files with Ccleaner from piriform.com I find the temp and log files have expanded.  The total has reached 30 Megs or more at times.  The crawl starts with as small as 5 meg total. 

I have the sizes for these files set to low values but the system generates hundreds of them at a time and overall they choke things out.  This is spite of having a large amount of RAM a SSD C: drive and a large D: drive.

Sometimes trying to fix this kills Outlook and I have to retreat to an earlier restore point which works for the Outlook problem.  This is why update is useless for the moment.   

The Microsoft site gives instructions on setting the file sizes but nothing I can find about the multiple file issue I am having.

All ideas welcome.

Little Frog

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Re: Temp and Log Files Choking Computer
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 10:31:56 am »
What files and locations exactly?

And do you know what is creating the files themselves?

a 30 MB file shouldnt choke a system unless something else is going on.

Shane