Windows Folder Increasing In Size

[carbonscoring]

Hi All, I have an odd problem that I have never seen, I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard edition service pack 2 that the windows directory keeps growing every day. I run the windows clean up utility however, in a couple of days its back to almost running out of disk space. This is the C drive that has 11.5 Gig's. I look at my Windows folder and it says its using about 8 gig's! That seems way to big!

Is there something that I should be looking at to get this to stop growing and to free up some space in my Windows folder?

thanks,
Mike

 

[Roadki11]

What services is the server running? Its probably an IIS log, I would look there first.

RoadKi11

"This apparent fear reaction is typical, rather than try to solve technical problems technically, policy solutions are often chosen." - Fred Cohen

 

[NortonES2]

Check for any *.dmp files

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[itsp1965]

Check also for *.log files as I have seen the .NET logs grow to a very large size in the past.

 

[wallst32]

There's really not enough information in your post to speculate on what the issue may be.

When I have similiar issues, I try to locate all files that are being modified or created. This helps to narrow down the source.

This command will list all the files that changed on 10/27:

dir c:\windows /s | find /i "10/27/2009"

 

[carbonscoring]

Thanks for the responses I did check the IIS log files and it was four Gigs! So I delted the majority of them. Thanks again for the recommendation.

I also turned off downloading of automatic updates a day or two prior to most of your responses and it seemed that once I turned that service off it stopped growing. Would that be in issue that after I install Microsoft updates that the installer packages are not deleting? How would I check if so?

thanks for the help,
Mike