If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

Having a hard time with Windows gobbling up your hard drive? You’ll be interested to learn Microsoft has known about the problem for more than two years and done nothing about it. There’s a manual fix ...

When trying to open a large file, around 500 MB to 2 GB, applications like Notepad and Notepad++ fail as they do not support these file sizes. Notepad was meant to take a quick look into smaller log ...

Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

So we had an issue in our environment where backups failed several nights in a row and log files built up to the point that the drive was down to 6GB free [of 8TB] at the point where I was notified ...

go to Start, Run, and type 'perfmon.msc' Enter. This runs Performance Monitor. The 4th icon from the left (should look like a cylinder) is what you use to open log files with. Click it and you'll be ...