[SOLVED] Client PC filling up with M$ Office Log files.

[nlinecomputers]

I have a client that has some kind of verbose logging feature that has been turned on in his Office 365 apps. Any Office program, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. that is opened creates a log file in his %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp folder. Support programs for Office running in the background like sdxhelper.exe are also doing this. The files are all nameofpc-date-incrementalnumber.log files. They can be HUGE. I deleted a 250GB log file. Just running a week is filling the drive. I have no idea how this is generated or what I need to do to turn this off.

Serious WTF here!

 

[nlinecomputers]

SOLVED.

Removed key at

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\XX.X\Common\Logging
Name: "EnableLogging"
Type: dword
Value: 0x00000001

XX.X = Office Version Number

 

[Larry Sabo]

Value: 0x00000001

Shouldn't that be "Value: 0x00000000"?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Shouldn't that be "Value: 0x00000000"?

To disable, YES. I just removed the whole Logging Key.

 

[HCHTech]

SOLVED.

Removed key at

Nice. i wonder how it got set in the first place? I don't remember ever seeing a logging option.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Nice. i wonder how it got set in the first place? I don't remember ever seeing a logging option.

Who knows. It's a stable install that suddenly went nuts. And the end user admits nothing.

 

[Porthos]

And the end user admits nothing.

 

[Markverhyden]

I can't believe that you all haven't noticed all the wonderful undocumented features that M$ has showered upon us the last 30 some odd years.