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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-10 12:33 AM
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Change the path of a .log text file???
Edited on Mon May-31-10 12:41 AM by Earth Bound Misfit
Hey you good DU computer people. I need to change the path of three .log text files back to their default location. Here's a description of my problem, which is more of an annoyance than a problem:

I began receiving this error message when booting in event viewer about 10 days ago The WinDOZE Security Center Service was unable to load instances of AntiVirusProduct from WMI. Since I set my AV monitoring preference turned off & "I'll monitor it myself" I wasn't aware of it until 2 days ago. I tried an uninstall/re-install of my AV (Avast5), rebooted and checked event viewer--AV still not recognized by WinDOZE. I tried deleting (several times} the repository folder in C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem by pausing the WMI service once and stopping it once, deleting the repository folder each time--rebooting after each to see if the problem would be resolved when the repository files & folders re-generate. No joy. Anyhow, somehow while I was tinkering with some other tools I found (like this one): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d7ba3cd6-18d1-4d05-b11e-4c64192ae97d&displaylang=en the path of three webm logs got changed from it's default of C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\logs to C:\Documents and Settings\(USER)\My Documents and I don't know how to change it back.

Thanks!

WinDOZE XP SP3 Home
Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop


Edit to add: I've run a full (boot) scan with AVAST, quick scans w\MBAM & SASW, not even a tracking cookie found, so I'm pretty confident this is not malware related, probably a corrupted file or reg value somewhere in WMI.
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-10 05:43 AM
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1. Got it.
Edited on Mon May-31-10 05:44 AM by Earth Bound Misfit
http://www.theeldergeek.com/microsoft_management_console.htm

MMC - Microsoft Management Console Snap-In

Start--> Run--> type "wmimgmt.msc" (without "s) --> click "logging" tab. Browse to the location, in this case C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\logs Screenshot below.



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