I'm not sure if this will really help or not, but after reading all the
posts it seems as if you haven't found a working solution yet,...

Two possibilities worth trying involve applying the freeware programs
"RegCleaner v4.3" by Jouni Vuorio, and the "Xteq Systems" utility. If
there's a registry entry without a program it links to, there's a good
chance that the RegCleaner program will discover the fact and delete the
entry (when in full auto cleaning mode). Of course, it might not have that
capability, if the item the entry links to is running. But, if it's running,
then the file can't be gone, can it? Which would mean RegCleaner wouldn't
find a faulty key,... So, I guess that won't work.

The Xteq Systems utility is a power-tweaking thing. It's essentially a
collection of applets that are accessed via a GUI list of descriptions.
There's a section called "Startup/Shutdown". Within that section, there will
be a couple of subsections for type of OS. Picking the OS that applies to
you, you should find a further subdivision called "Autorun"; there's a part
one for the system in general, and a part two for the current user. Check
the contents shown in the window to the right when you click on the Autorun
programs item. You might find your Bootvis listed there. If it is, then
disable it via the buttom below the window. Exit & reboot. That might (?)
prevent it from being activated & put into use - and, give you the chance to
do something different than what's been tried before.

A few other thoughts,...

a) Have you tried (recently) using the "Find" utility, for any file of any
type, having the text "bootivs" in the name?
b) Perhaps if you track down a way of contacting them, and approach them
just right, the people who made the "bootvis" application would give you a
list of all registry keys & values, & files installed during the
installation process?
c) Task Manager can give you a list of all running process, and you can end
ANY running process from there. So, if it's in use, make it not in use -
and, then you've got different options to pick from.

Scruffy
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"Comp Guy" wrote in message
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I told bootvis to trace. After my computer restarted, nothing happened.
I
decided to get rid of bootvis, so I tried to uninstalled it.
The uninstall messed up, and wouldn't work again, so I went through,
deleting as many bootvis files and registry entries as possible.
Now, a file called trace.log in the c:\windows\system32\logfiles\wmi is
there and I can't delete it. It grows at about 1 mb a second. When I try
to delete it, it tells me that it is in use. So I boot to safe mode, but
I
still get the same error when I try to delete it.


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