@ECHO OFF :START ECHO. ECHO. ECHO SILENTTRACEKILL will stop the tracing process that keeps the trace.log ECHO file from being deleted and will then delete the trace.log file. ECHO M.Devlin, 2004 -- www.mike-devlin.com ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Stopping the tracing process . . . ECHO. ECHO. START /M /w C:\PROGRA~1\RESOUR~1\TRACELOG -stop ECHO. ECHO Tracing process stopped . . . ECHO. ECHO. ECHO . . . checking for the trace.log file. ECHO. DEL C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI\trace.log