I have a machine that seems to be filling up its C: drive by placing a large number of 3MB .LOG files all of the form MSI*.LOG in the C:\Windows\Temp directory. I've tried researching and the closest was kb 223300, however this machine does not appear to have the registry setting referenced in that article. The Hotfix also says its not valid for this OS (Windows 8.1). Never seen this before. Can someone help? I've completely turned off Windows Update on this machine and so far that seems to be working.

Also, I couldn't figure out for a while why where the disk space was going. Nothing was reporting anywhere close to the full disk utilization. I had to use ROBOCOPY /MIR /L to essentially get a full view of what's on the drive.

Hi,

In my opinion, it's hard to say this problem caused by Windows update. Have you tried to delete these files for test? It's most possible caused by 3rd application.

Have you made any change to your system before this problem occures? Such as install new sof

I'm getting the same problem too, with 3MB MSI*.LOG files filling up c:\windows\temp. It puts so many on, that it completely fills C: drive. It does it randomly, sometimes going for weeks without problem, sometimes doing it every couple of days, but has done so since the OS was reinstalled from scratch on an SSD several months ago.

It has been doing it pretty much since I did a complete fresh reinstall. I don't get the problem on any of my other machines, only this one - but this is my only 64 bit machine, so that may have something to do with it. 

I first discovered the problem basically while I was installing the basics for the first time.  I did a clean OS install, ran the updates, installed Office, and then when I was installing Visual Studio, it failed with an out of disc space error. That's when I discovered the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP was full of log files.

Unfortunately I've just deleted them again, so can't upload one. But last time I had a look in one, there was something that pointed to Visual Studio possibly being the culprit but I can't remember what it was. I uninstalled and reinstalled Visual Studio, and thought it had fixed it, as it went for a couple of months without the problem, but has done it three times in the last week.

The files are about 3MB each - I'm new on the forums, so what would be the best way of uploading one so that someone might be able to have a look at it?