What folder is perflogs? Can perflogs be deleted?

We can often see some folders that have never been seen on the C drive of the Win7 system. These folders are either system configuration files or information files left after using the system functions. One of them is called the perflogs folder. Initially, the user didn't know about this folder and wanted to delete it and worried about system failure. Read below to understand the role of the perflogs folder and the impact of the deletion.

perflogs what folder?

PerfLogs is Vista's log information, such as disk scans, error messages, test information, and more.

Can perflogs be deleted?

After the test is deleted, it has no effect on the system, but it is not a lot of volume in the system folder. Generally, it is not recommended to delete it! And may be regenerated after deletion.

PerfLogs is automatically generated by the system:

1. Open “Control Panel & Rarr; Management Tools & Rarr; Performance & rdquo; in the "Performance" dialog box that appears, expand In the left column, click “Performance Log and Alert”, select the “Counter Log” under it, right click in the blank space in the right column, and select “New Log Settings” in the right-click menu; < Br>

2, fill in any name in the pop-up dialog box "Name", such as "virtual memory test". In the window that appears, click the “Add Counter” button to go to the next window; in this window, open the drop-down list of “Performance Objects”, select “Paging File”, and check “Select Counter from the list”. ”;

3. Select “%Usage Peak”; in the column, select “ select the sample from the list, and select “_Total”;

4, then click “ add → close & rdquo; end;

5, in order to easily view the log file, you can open the "log file" tab, will "log file type" Select as “text file”;

6. Finally click on the “OK” button to return to “performance”, the main interface;

7, now under the C drive There is a log folder "perfLogs”, there is a virtual memory test _000001.csv“ file in the folder. Used for virtual memory testing. Admin is an abbreviation for administrator administrator.

The above is about the role of the perflogs folder and the impact of the deletion, as the user continues to use the various functions in the operating system, the weight of the C drive will become larger and larger, a large number of logs, configuration The information file appears in the root directory of the C drive, looking for information about the folder, just the last time the search engine was done, the user should not worry.