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Referring to for the original question, What is the purpose of config\Software.log but my question is rather WHY the continuous writing to that file. I have 6x Windows 2008R2 SP1 VMs, and they consume a constant 1 to 3MByte/sec writing, and looking at the performance monitor, that file and it's sibling c:\windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE.LOG I see using each about 2Kbyte/sec being written to it.
Okay, I'm a Un*x guy, so that is the reason I'm asking why or where I could track what might be the reason for this constant I/O.
EDIT: It's being written to by Image: System PID: 4 (As just about anything "System" appears to have that PID number on this instance)
Hvisage
Posted 2016-05-29T20:14:33.480
Reputation: 176
You could try and use Process Monitor to find out which process is writing to the registry. – Daniel B – 2016-05-29T20:26:03.077
The values and information I saw, came from Resource Monitor (from Task Manager). @DanielB Where do I get the Process Monitor ? – Hvisage – 2016-05-29T23:47:10.583
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google Windows Process Monitor -> #1 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx and download (then run) or 'run ... from Live'
– dave_thompson_085 – 2016-05-30T01:46:39.753