- #Hard drive full of cab files in temp folder software#
- #Hard drive full of cab files in temp folder code#
etc.), and or configurations that I utilize, that my IT colleagues don't.
#Hard drive full of cab files in temp folder software#
As much as I have seen this problem on my clients' computers, I simply can not understand why none of my local IT colleagues haven't seen it! That makes me start to think this problem is caused by (or exacerbated by) software I typically use (like Webroot antivirus, etc. My question is, do shawnkhall's solutions *keep* this problem from happening in the future, or not? I ask because I've read some things about this (amazing that it even exists) problem that only deleting the files simply frees up the hard drive space for the problem to start filling up the hard drive (slowly but surely) again.Īnother really surprising thing about this year long + problem is that *none* of my other local IT colleagues have seen this problem at all on their clients Windows 7 computers. Shawnkhall solutions appear to be the most elegant / streamlined for addressing this problem that I have seen.a problem which I have been dealing with on many different clients' Windows 7 computers now for over one year, so thanks for that. I know, it's not glamorous like the powershell script above, but it works.
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You could also manually remove just the contents of the CBS folder and the cabs themselves, which will have the same effect: This step is already in the script provided above, so it should be a fine solution. The fix is to purge the CBS folder so that this will stop. If the machine is left on 24/7 it'll continue to consume a huge chunk of space every hour with new, broken cabs until it eats up all the disk space and has to be manually attended to. MakeCab suffers from a 2gb file limitation, so once any single file in the c:\windows\logs\CBS folder grows beyond 2gb it chokes and fails, consuming memory until the process is killed every hour by the task scheduler when it attempts to do it again. That said, the core issue behind the infinite cab problem is often the CBS logs, which have exceeded the storage limits of the MakeCab program. If WU is in use it'll check the normal Windows Update. System Manufacturer/Model Number: ACER ASPIRE 5742G. I'm talking about issues on c:\windows\temp folder. I did clean temp folder located under userprofile. If WSUS is in use it'll check the WSUS server. Layback Bear said: Check your temp folders and see if they are empty. It simply performs a "check for updates" in Windows Update, which will recreate the SoftwareDistribution folder. The script provided in this thread doesn't require WSUS to be used.
#Hard drive full of cab files in temp folder code#
Try much less code duplication though I have not tested it :) Write-host "$service1 on $machine is $($svc.status)" $svc = (get-service -computername $Machine -name $service1) $Machine = read-host "Type in the Computer Name"