IIRC, my problem is HP printers and they create gazillions of keys under HKU\.Default\Software\HewlettPackard.
I simply created a group policy object that deletes the whole HKU\.Default\Software\HewlettPackard key. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS I realize this is has been around for a while, but it seems that there still has not been an actual fix for this, so i am asking if anyone has had any successful work-arounds, besides upgrading the server http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c16e01d6-4b64-4dad-ba8f-479c9fea85c0/high-cpu-usage-in-msiexec-due-to-enumeration-of-print-guids-in-hkudefaultsoftware I literally have thousands of these guids on the TS Environment, 2008 32 bit TS with Citrix fundamentals Any thoughts are appreciated
