Cbs.Log Causes High Disk Usage in Windows 10 (Solution)
144Cbs.Log Causes High Disk Usage in Windows 10 (Solution)
This tutorial contains step by step instructions to fix the following issue in Windows 10: The PC is very slow because of high disk usage caused by the activity on the CBS LOG file.
The Component-Based Servicing file (C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log), is a log file maintained by Windows to store information about the components installed or uninstalled during updates, and also to store the details and the results when running the System File Checker (SFC /scannow) command to repair the corrupted Windows files.
When the CBS.LOG file overcomes a certain size, a cleanup process renames the file to "CbsPersist_Date_Time.log" and then attempts to compress it into a .cab file(s). But if CBS. LOG exceeds the size of 2GB, the cleaning process fails to compress it, causing very high disk activity. At the same time you may run out disk space, because every time the cleanup process fails, creates a new .cab file of 100MB, inside the 'C:\Windows\Temp' folder.
The above issue, is a known bug in Windows 7/8/10 & in Windows Server 2008/2012, and the only way to resolve the problem is to delete the CBS.LOG file and all the .CAB files inside the 'C:\Windows\Temp' folder manually.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).