BCD.LOG being created daily - why?

GRoston

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I just noticed something a tad odd about one of my Windows 7 machines.

The machine in question is our household server. It does not have a screen attached, and I have configured the Task Scheduler to run shutdown.exe /s every morning at 1:00 am, and I believe (too much of a pain to check) that I have defined something in the BIOS to boot the machine every day at 8:00 am.

I just noticed that in the directory C:\Boot there are files BCD and BCD.LOG that get updated every day. Some quick searching suggests that this file is created when an error occurs, but I have no idea why it is being created on my machine. Any ideas?
 
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I googled it and it seems to be a normal process. I wouldn't worry about it if windows starts up and shuts down normally.
 

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