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TMP Files Left After Deinstall of SMS Admin UI Tool

Article ID: 135772

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q135772

SYMPTOMS

When you use Systems Management Server Setup to deinstall the SMS Administrator from a computer running Windows NT Workstation version 3.1 or 3.5, Setup fails to remove two .TMP files in the root directory. The two files are:

     Name        Size
   --------------------
   _@x.TMP    1,241,520
   _@x.TMP      219,136

NOTE: x represents the increment of temp files created.

CAUSE

These files are not deleted because they are not noted in the following registry location:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   \System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\FileRenameOperations

This registry entry is blank after the deinstall completes. Windows NT looks in this location for filenames to be deleted upon system startup. Because there were no entries present, no files were deleted.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, manually delete the files.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.0. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms sms

Keywords: kbnetwork kbsetup kbsmsadmin kbsmsutil KB135772