Problems after uninstall Malay Thakershi 7/10/2007 10:58:00 PM Hi everyone, I had WSUS 2.0 on WIN 2K server for 2 months. Due to lack of proper planning on my part, I had to uninstall it 2 days back. However, the uninstall created more problems. It said the uninstall finished with errors but didn't say what errors. However, it removed its entry from 'Add/Remove Programs'. So I thought I will be able to manually delete the files and folders it has created and free up the space (a lot of space). But now when I try to delete those folders (with random names), it says 'access is denied'. Just to make sure no client computers are still using these files, I removed the group policy from the server and restarted everything. Earlier the 'inetinfo.exe' was taking up CPU and memory like crazy but now it is under control. When I try to see permissions on those folders, it says I don't have rights to see permissions even though I am logged in as an "administrator". So now there are about 1000 folders of random names and huge size sitting on my two secondary drives. Most of these folders have sub-folders starting with 'SP', a sub-folder called 'updated', 'spuninst.exe' and 'spmsg.dll'. Please help me find out what these folders are and how they can be removed. Thank you so much. Malay

Re: Problems after uninstall Harry Johnston <harry[ at ]scms.waikato.ac.nz> 7/11/2007 12:49:50 AM Malay Thakershi wrote: [Quoted Text] > It said the uninstall finished with errors but didn't say what errors. > However, it removed its entry from 'Add/Remove Programs'. So I thought I will > be able to manually delete the files and folders it has created and free up > the space (a lot of space). This may not be a good idea, particularly if you're considering reinstalling WSUS in the future. However ... > But now when I try to delete those folders (with > random names), it says 'access is denied'. Most likely this is related to file permissions. You need to claim ownership of the folder and contents (open the properties of the folder, go to Security, click Advanced, go to Owner) and then change the permissions ("Replace permission entries..." on the Permissions tab). If this doesn't work, try stopping the IIS service. Harry.

Re: Problems after uninstall Malay Thakershi 7/11/2007 4:08:01 PM Thanks. I took the ownership and changed the permissions. I was able to delete the files and free up a lot of space. I understand this is not the best way to fix the problem but I do not intend to use WSUS in future at least on this server. Thank you again. Malay "Harry Johnston" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Malay Thakershi wrote: > > > It said the uninstall finished with errors but didn't say what errors. > > However, it removed its entry from 'Add/Remove Programs'. So I thought I will > > be able to manually delete the files and folders it has created and free up > > the space (a lot of space). > > This may not be a good idea, particularly if you're considering reinstalling > WSUS in the future. However ... > > > But now when I try to delete those folders (with > > random names), it says 'access is denied'. > > Most likely this is related to file permissions. You need to claim ownership of > the folder and contents (open the properties of the folder, go to Security, > click Advanced, go to Owner) and then change the permissions ("Replace > permission entries..." on the Permissions tab). > > If this doesn't work, try stopping the IIS service. > > Harry. >