NTUSER.DAT and UsrClass.dat files building up by the thousands, why and can I delete?
Posted
by
Anthony
on Server Fault
See other posts from Server Fault
or by Anthony
Published on 2012-08-22T20:03:30Z
Indexed on
2012/11/21
23:01 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 3621
I've noticed that my web server, 2008 Xen VM, gradually loosing free space - more than I would of though from normal use and decided to investigate.
There are two problem areas:
*C:\Users\Administrator\ (6,755.0 MB)*
with files:
NTUSER.DAT{randomness}.TMContainer'0000 randomness'.regtrans-ms
NTUSER.DAT{randomness}.TM.blf
AND
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\ (6,743.8 MB)
with files
UsrClass.dat{randomness}.TMContainer'0000 randomness'.regtrans-ms
UsrClass.dat{randomness}.TM.blf
From what I understand these are in-time backups of registry changes. If that is the case I cannot possibly understand why there would be 10000+ changes. (That's how many files there are per folder location, over 20,000 per folder in total.)
The files are using almost 15GB of space and I want rid of them, I'm just wondering can I remove them. However, I need to understand why they are being created so I can avoid this in the future.
Any ideas why there would be so many? Is there a way I can check to see what is making the modifications?
- Are they created with login attempts?
- Are they created in relation to every day Web Server use?
- etc. and so on
© Server Fault or respective owner