SetupFactory Temp Files

[smanners]

G'day,

I am having an issue with one of my insallers on a particular system where it creates sufxxx.tmp files but never deletes them. Each time the installer is run it creates a new sufxxx.tmp file rather than deleting the old one.

The installer creates numerous services and uses the C:\Windows\System32 folder as it %APPFOLDER% path. It is in the System32 folder that the temp files keep getting created.

Because this installer gets updated regularly and re-installed the System32 is slowly filling up with hundreds of sufxxx.tmp files. Each is around a megabyte in size.

The account under which the installer is running has admin rights and performs its tasks correctly. The installers setup log file has no errors in it.

The target operating system is a Windows 2003 Server.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can stop this from happening or what is causing it?

Thanks muchly!

[jassing]

Could the files being intalled be in use, such that it's scheduling the copy after a reboot?

[smanners]

Some files may well be in use. Are the temp files actually the files themselves to be replaced on reboot? That would make sense, and hence would they disappear after a reboot?

Cheers

[jassing]

That would make sense.
if you go to sysinternals.com and get "pendmoves.exe" after you install; you can see what files are scheduled for copy/move on reboot.

It's really just a registry entry; but pendmoves is much easier..