padlock icon in system tray, can it be turned off?

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

You did not get "bombarded with silly answers", you got people asking why you would do something so utterly pointless that ended up causing you more problems than it is worth. You did something that is completely stupid, it caused you problems, so you posted here asking why you were having this problem. People told you what to do to solve the problem (i.e., set the logs back to their default settings), and you cried "waaaaa, I like them that way". What other kind of response did you expect?

Forgot this thread was still here, erm it did not cause a problem, all I wanted to know was if there was some way other than having logs overwrite one another to stop the padlock from appearing, in the end I just kept clearing the logs manually, I hardly ever look at the anyway, there are not useful to me. If I need a solution I search for one.

fyi, it was not a pointless stupid thing to do, and no I did not cry waaaaa. If anyone's a baby and stupid it's the idiots who think they know it all. The so called "experts in all things it".

[Lare2]

........ But I have to thank you -- I have learned something.. If someone lowers the size of their log files to lowest possible size, and then disables overwriting or achieving of said log files they will get annoyed by a padlock icon in their tray ;) heheheh

Dude, I would take that above as a compliment. Teaching a new trick to an old dog like BudMan is not easy. :p

[tomjol]

some computer experts are so expert that they dont need no stinkin logging to be able to troubleshoot a computer. format and rebuild is always the answer, no logging needed...it wastes space, time, effort, etc. we are too 1337 for you. virus, format; malware, format; word not acting right, format; firefox won't come up, format; hell even format ever week just to format. We know what we are doing, we just need fdisk. hell we are so 133t we don't need no stinkin mouse or keyboard, osmosis is how we fix things, we just touch it and think it and it is fixed with a format.

I know there's something of a thread resurrection taking place here, but this is easily in the top ten posts I've ever seen on the Internet.

[Buzz99]

On my rig I see this :

Log files : 369Mb

event log files : 67Mb

Total space : 1 693Gb

Hmmm...Disk spce cluttered ? Have to tidy up my drives....Na... I think I'll leave them cluttered !

[Seizure1990]

I can understand turning them down to the minimum size, but I'm still not sure what the purpose is of leaving them to be deleted manually, as opposed to automatically overwriting.