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Whats this .log file? - 9/9/2008 3:43:54 PM

Joe III

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Found this on my Vista machine after I logged of my dial-up...

sti_trace.log

Its an empty file, no text in it, and I found it in:

C:\Users\Matt\Documents
C:\Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)
C:\Program Files

I deleted it, and ran a virus/spyware scan, came up clean. I got online to download some music later in the day (from iTunes), and it re-appeared roughly 4 minutes into my time online.

I find this kinda strange... I used a program called Filemon (Sysinternals) to monitor my Hard Drive access, and I never saw a creation of 'sti_trace.log' on that log.

On my XP machine I also found it in my Windows root directory, I deleted it, and the file hasn't come back since.

Anyone else has this file? I know that it was included with Windows 2000 and was used as a system file, but I have never seen it before in XP/Vista.

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RE: Whats this .log file? - 9/9/2008 4:08:32 PM

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The Sti_Trace.log file has been opened on many of my OS's most often on Windows 2000,XP,Vista.

It is used as a log for your Still Image Monitor (Stimon.exe).Stimon.exe enables a USB device to initiate data transfer to a program.

Stimon.exe runs all the time, using the log file Sti_Trace.log.

You can use msconfig to disable Stimon.exe.
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You can also do it through the registry:

HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run