It is in computer policy, so it executes whenever your machine policy runs (at boot and by default every 90 minutes or so).
In GPMC, it is under "Computer Configuration", "Preferences", "Windows Settings", "Registry". The actual key is .DEFAULT\Software\Hewlett-Packard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS Yes they are in HP gazillion Can you share your policy, did it delete before or after user logon/off And more importantly did it prevent MSIEXEC from shooting to 100 during a new logon? THANKS SO MUCH Jean-Paul Natola ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:49:47 -0400 Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS 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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:21 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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
