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Powershell & Cleanmgr Exitcode Problem
Hi there,
I created a Powershell script with help from some Forums to delete an Windows.old Directory after Inplace Update.
But I get no Exit/Error Code from the Script because of Cleanmgr.
What my Script looks like:
if (Test-Path $env:SYSTEMDRIVE\Windows.old) {
# Add RegValue StateFlags1221
$regpath = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Previous Installations'
New-ItemProperty -Path $regpath -Name 'StateFlags1221' -PropertyType DWORD -Value 2 -Force
# Start CleanUp
Start-Process cleanmgr `
-ArgumentList "/sagerun:1221" `
-Wait `
-NoNewWindow `
-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue `
-WarningAction SilentlyContinue
}
Exit 0
Cleanmgr runs and ended without that Powershell recognizes it. So the Script always ended with the Timeout from PDQ Deploy.
How can I change that?
Comments
I did it by myself.
I created a Package that creates a Task (with schtasks), then it started the Task, and deleted it after.
With that I get my succesfull Message.
If anyone is Interested in that, I can post the Package.
Hi,
can you post the package,please?
Hi,
no Problem. We copy the Inplace File to the C drive (\install\win), so in the first Step, we delete that Folder after the Update (All of that are normal commands):
IF EXIST "C:\install\win" (
rd c:\install\win10 /s /q
)
Then add the needed RegKey (command):
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Previous Installations" /v StateFlags1221 /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
Then create the Task (command):
schtasks /create /tn "CleanUp" /RU SYSTEM /sc weekly /D MO /st 10:00 /sd 01/01/2022 /tr "cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:1221"
After that, we create a Sleep of 3 seconds and then
Start the Task (command):
schtasks /run /I /tn "CleanUp"
another Sleep of 10 seconds and then
delete the Task (command):
schtasks /delete /tn "CleanUp" /f
Thats it. The shedule is deleted (not needed anymore) and the Task is running in the background. Depends on the Hardware, after 10-20min the Folder is gone. And you will get the success Code in PDQ.
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