deleting window log files

CCleaner for Windows
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HI, I am new here and apologise if I am posting in the wrong section ? anyway i have just run the ccleaner analasis and it has come back with suggested files for deletion but I am unsure whether it is safe to delete 'system' windows log files.. that it has identified? it says there are 368 files 154,747 KB...

Can anyone please advise me as i would hate to mess up my operating system but on the other hand i think my computer needs a good clean up :rolleyes: and I am not sure what to do

many thanks

Chill

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Just delete 'em Chill. I delete mine all the time. Doesn't hurt anything. They are just old junk files.

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Out of curiosity, what exactly do those files hold?

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When I replaced a software firewall, the repository was built.

I immediately saw in the system event log that 4 off .NET Framework files had failed to recover.

Those errors were NOT repeated when I rebooted, so I assumed that they had successfully recovered.

So sad.

Some days later I saw evidence of other problems, and I eventually found that the cause would be found in

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs\mofcomp.log

Unfortunately that had been purged by CCleaner - precious data destroyed.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs is now excluded from cleaning.

There are only 13 files and a total of less than 0.5 MB,

which for me is a small price to pay for the opportunity to debug when things go wrong.

Most of the time these log files have no value,

but when something goes wrong you may regret their absence.

Alan