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BrettCallaway

Posted 1/15/2008 4:33:39 PM

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I have been testing some packages that I created to uninstall various P2P clients. A few of the packages create errors on the client computer saying that the .exe or .dll can not be deleted because it is in use. Anyone have any experience with this and know the best way to deal with this issue?

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Posted 1/21/2008 5:16:54 PM

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Normally in this situation the package would create a registry value to specify that the busy file should be deleted at the next reboot, and there wouldn't be any error. Are you certain that the local SYSTEM account has full rights to the file in question? (The Prsimxl service runs as local SYSTEM.)

You could try deploying your package as part of a script or batch file, and add a line before the package runs to stop the process that is running. For example, XP has the taskkill command, or you could use net stop to stop a service.

Is this a feasible workaround?

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