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karbomusic · 06-28-2016, 04:37 PM

That is a transaction log for the SOFTWARE hive of the registry. It's actually very important. If you know what transaction logs are basically, temporary storage for data that needs committing. In this case if the OS were in the middle of writing to the SOFTWARE hive and say the power was lost, it will use the transaction log to replay the missing data.

Thusly, high activity to SOFTWARE.LOG hints at high activity to the registry. A tool such as Process Monitor would tell you what is doing/causing all the reads/writes to that registry hive. Just so you know, don't touch any files in that /config directory, that's the registry. It likely won't let you but just letting you know that mucking with those contents will lead to an unbootable system.

06-28-2016, 04:37 PM	#4
karbomusic Human being with feelings Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 29,269	That is a transaction log for the SOFTWARE hive of the registry. It's actually very important. If you know what transaction logs are basically, temporary storage for data that needs committing. In this case if the OS were in the middle of writing to the SOFTWARE hive and say the power was lost, it will use the transaction log to replay the missing data. Thusly, high activity to SOFTWARE.LOG hints at high activity to the registry. A tool such as Process Monitor would tell you what is doing/causing all the reads/writes to that registry hive. Just so you know, don't touch any files in that /config directory, that's the registry. It likely won't let you but just letting you know that mucking with those contents will lead to an unbootable system. __________________ Music is what feelings sound like.