Windows 10: Reset Network Data Usage in Windows 10

Hello nIGHTmAYOR, *Smile

The owner of the sru folder is System. Here's a get-acl report for the folder to help.

 

how about the rest of users assigned ? because this haven't solved it yet , i managed to get this error message from event viewer :
svchost (1432) SRUJet: An attempt to create the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\SRU\SRUtmp.log" failed with system error 5 (0x00000005): "Access is denied. ". The create file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).
i think the attempt is done through another account than system!

 

I'm not sure what the default permissions are per user since it won't show them unless I take ownership of the folder.

You could also do a system restore using a restore point dated before this happened to undo it.

System Restore Windows 10

 

I don't use system restore , it beefs up pretty quick for me . no plans on resetting , repair installing , killing it while it sleeps or tossing away a system i have had for 3 years with all installed software and customization , this thing has to fix and it will *Smile

so , i'm talking about the accounts listed under Properties > Security > Group or user names , so its strange they show for me even though i set ownership back to SYSTEM account , might it be you are not using NTFS partition ?

its where i added Everyone account to allow whatever username the service responsible for data usage management to login by to access folder .

A side remark all files created inside sru folder are owned by account LOCAL SERVICES , adding it and taking off account Everyone doesn't solve the problem though , i keep getting login errors in event viewer and 0 mb data usage .

 

Nope. You're seeing it since you previously took ownership and permission, and is no longer set at default permissions.

You could try running SFC /SCANNOW to see if it may help since it's a system folder.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

was my first try , didn't work , says everything is fine , just bottom line , do a warning about deleting the folder .

 

The warning is already in the step.

If you are having issues from it, then you could still do a repair install without losing anything.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

 

Is there any other way of achieving what we have in mind? Or better yet - stopping it from collecting the data of Usage?

 

Not that I'm aware of. *Sad

 

I reset my data today and find that having deleted the files they have been re-created.
However, although the new files appear to be updating regularly the information shown in the Data Usage remains at zero.

Anyone any thoughts??

 

Hello pewe, *Smile

If you haven't already, see if resetting your network data usage while in safe mode without networking may work better for you.

 

Thanks - I'll try that.

I have done a system restore and all the data is back, but wonder why deleting the contents of the SRU in safe mode should make a difference.

What I did was to 'disable' the network card and wifi in 'Device Manager', deleted the contents of the SRU directory then enabled the network and wifi in 'Device Manager again, which resulted in the files in the SRU directory being rebuilt.

The files were being updated and growing as I used the internet, but no stats were showing in Settings/Network and Internet/Data Usage until system restore.

What I have noticed is that when I go to Settings/Network and Internet/Data Usage the figures for Wifi and Ethernet are momentarily at zero, then the screen refreshes with the data instantly (presumably as it reads the files) but the refresh was not happening with the rebuilt files.

As an aside - I am surprised that no one has come up with an app to use the data in the files and reset them to zero after a specific time whilst building a new file of historic data.
With most people now having Mobile Broadband contracts with monthly data allowances that would be a very useful tool.

For example my landline broadband is so bad due to line length that I use 4G on a 4G router from 3 UK.
The contract has a capped monthly usage, so an easy way of monitoring my usage would be extremely useful.

 

Safe mode is way to make sure that nothing network is in use that could prevent the data usage history from being fully reset and cleared so it doesn't return.

 

I made this batch script late last night to reset the Data Usage Overview to 0. I will appreciate any constructive comments regarding this script. I know there is the app "Reset Data Usage v1.0" to do all this, but I like to refrain from using any 3rd party apps.

Also please note that network adaptors with active connections will be disabled when the script is run and then re-enabled at the end.

Use "netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces" in command prompt to determine the correct name for each network adapter and then edit or add to the script accordingly if different from "WiFi" and "Ethernet" listed below

Code: @ECHO OFF :: BatchGotAdmin (Run as Admin code starts) REM --> Check for permissions >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin. if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( echo Requesting administrative privileges... goto UACPrompt ) else ( goto gotAdmin ) :UACPrompt echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" exit /B :gotAdmin if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ) pushd "%CD%" CD /D "%~dp0" :: BatchGotAdmin (Run as Admin code ends) :: Your codes should start from the following line COLOR 1F ECHO Commensing with Data Usage Reset: ECHO. ECHO Disabling Network Adpters netsh interface set interface "WiFi" disabled netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" disabled ECHO. ECHO Stopping Data Usage Services ECHO. sc config DusmSvc start= disabled net stop DusmSvc > NUL 2>&1 net stop diagnosticshub.standardcollector.service > NUL 2>&1 net stop DPS > NUL 2>&1 ECHO. ECHO Resetting Data Usage echo Y | del /f /q "C:\Windows\System32\sru\*.*" > nul ECHO. ECHO Restarting Data Usage Services ECHO. sc config DusmSvc start= auto net start DusmSvc > NUL 2>&1 net start diagnosticshub.standardcollector.service > NUL 2>&1 net start DPS > NUL 2>&1 ECHO. ECHO Enabling Network Adapters netsh interface set interface "WiFi" enabled netsh interface set interface "Ethernet" enabled ECHO. ECHO Data Usage was Reset to 0 ECHO. ECHO Press any key to exit. pause > nul :end[/quote]

 

If anyone wanted to use this,

- do you mind?
- how would the script be run ? (forgive the ignorance of a non-coder)

Please advise


Thanks