Monthly Archive: February 2013

Delprof2 – User Profile Deletion Tool 0

Delprof2 – User Profile Deletion Tool

Delprof2 is the inofficial successor to Microsoft’s Delprof which does not work with operating systems newer than Windows XP. Here are the main facts: Delprof2 is syntax compatible to the original Delprof, but more powerful Delprof2 lets you explicitly specify which profiles to delete Delprof2 bypasses security to delete profiles regardless of current permissions/owner Delprof2 supports very long paths Delprof2 works on nearly all versions of Windows Delprof2 is free for private use, for educational and non-profit organizations What Does it Do? Delprof2 deletes inactive user profiles. If you want to reclaim disk space just run it without parameters and it will delete all profiles except your own and some special profiles needed by the operating system (like “Default”). Delprof2 has additional filtering options: you might want to delete locally cached copies of roaming profiles only or delete only those profiles that have not been used in a specified number of days. Delprof2 does it all, both on the local system and remotely. Special Features Exclusions and Inclusions with Wildcards It is a frequent requirement to delete all profiles except one or two which should be left unchanged. With version 1.5 of Delprof2 that is easily possible: profiles can be...

Fix for Windows Search Service Startup Error 1053 in Windows 7 0

Fix for Windows Search Service Startup Error 1053 in Windows 7

Recently I came across a problem in a Windows 7 PC where the Windows Search service failed to start, and manually starting the service using Services MMC resulted in Error 1053, with the following error message verbatim. Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. And the following entry is recorded in the event viewer. Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Date: Event ID: 7009 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Description: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Search service to connect. Because the Windows Search service failed to start, the Indexing doesn’t run, and the controls in Indexing Options are dimmed out. Note that the Windows Search (WSearch) service is set to start automatically (delayed start) by default in Windows 7. Registry Fix To resolve the problem, download wsearch-1053-fix.zip, unzip and apply the wsearch-1053-fix.reg file (This fix is for Windows 7 PCs only.) After applying, open Services MMC (Services.msc), right-click Windows Search and click Start. Reference: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-windows-search-service-error-1053-windows-7/