I had been losing space on Drive C for awhile and it seemed odd to me as I rarely store things on Drive C, therefore the space should not be going down.
It ended up I had 255 GB (!) of files stacked up in the Windows Error Reporting Service queue in C:\programdata\microsoft\windows\wer\reportqueue
Definitely worth checking from time to time if you have apps that crash a lot and use Windows Vista
May 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm
IS IT SAFE TO DELETE THESE FILES???
May 11, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Yes
August 14, 2009 at 3:48 am
how can you disable these logs…i dont want them!
October 5, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hello Jordan,
I have the same problem in my Windows Server 2008. The folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue has its size increasing all time. I was looking for a definitive solution and didn´t find yet. I stopped the Windows Error Reporting Service and the problem still occurs. I made a change in the registry to tell WER to save its files in another partition, but it didn´t work. So much bad!
Another folder (C:\Windows\WINSXS) has an incredible size of 8 GB. And the worst is that I found that it´s not safe to delete the contents of that folder.
Do you have new comments about it?
October 5, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hello
As far as disabling them — I don’t know — I’ve switched machines a few times since then…. Now I’m fighting other problems like why does IE take up gigabytes of swap space…
As far as WinSXS it seems that’s the new dll cache for windows…those files would benefit greatly from compression, so changing the folder to a compressed folder would probably help somewhat…
For people that are working through these issues feel free to leave comments to assist other users with these same issues…
Jordan