Referring to for the original question, What is the purpose of config\Software.log but my question is rather WHY the continuous writing to that file. I have 6x Windows 2008R2 SP1 VMs, and they consume a constant 1 to 3MByte/sec writing, and looking at the performance monitor, that file and it's sibling c:\windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE.LOG I see using each about 2Kbyte/sec being written to it.
Okay, I'm a Un*x guy, so that is the reason I'm asking why or where I could track what might be the reason for this constant I/O.
EDIT: It's being written to by Image: System PID: 4 (As just about anything "System" appears to have that PID number on this instance)
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Possibly defrag/shrink (I did a partition shrink that seems to have triggered this crap - at first via defrag.exe)
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