What are these .log files? How do I turn them off/on?

Recently I noticed that I am getting a .log file for every pdf I have. I don't think I need them and would like to stop them from showing up. How do I turn this off?

When I looked up ghostscript, Wikipedia said "Ghostscript is a suite of
software based on an
interpreter<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_(computing)>
for Adobe Systems <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems>". Written
by Artifax. I do not remember loading any Artifax software. Below is what
is in one of these files. they are named the same as the .PDF with an
extension of .log (ie: nu.pdf .. nu.log). ??? Thanks, Mike
Artifex Ghostscript 8.60 (2007-08-01)
Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
peelstring status: true: '% Copyright'
peelstring status: true: '%!PS-Adobe-'
Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from %rom%lib/n022003l.pfb... 2495600 1177766
1871424 586536 1 done.
%%[ ProductName: Artifex Ghostscript ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[LastPage]%%
ps2pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOSAFER -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -sstdout=C:\Documents and Settings\MikeS\Local
Settings\Temp\qwc13ek2 -sOutputFile=C:\Documents and Settings\MikeS\Local
Settings\Temp\qwc13ek2.kry
Mike
Mike Schweichler
[email address removed]

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STU9000 wrote:
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