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Removing Inactive Sessions

Crudely Known As: "Killing APPX Orphans"

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The format is: kill

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(The 'kill' command is not part of Windows 2000. A shareware replacement, 'pskill', can be downloaded from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml)

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(The 'kill' command is not part of Windows 2000. A shareware replacement, 'pskill', can be downloaded from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml)

If you go into Registration Usage at 3)SysAdmin, 1)Setup, 1)Registration, 2)View Registration Usage, you can see the PIDs of registrations in use.

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We have a record in a file that is reporting "locked" if you try to change it. No one is on it that we are aware. Hints for what to do? The user, running APPX Client, was in the middle of updating this record when her session "crashed".

The APPX session is probably still running on the server, and that's what's holding the record.

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- Identify the process id's of all currently connected clients (look in the title bar if P/M client, or under the 'About' menu if Java) and kill everything but those. Again, watch out for background jobs, if you use them at your site. Also, you might want to stop the WinAppxD service while you do this to prevent new users from logging on while you try to find the ghost process.

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- Download and install the BJutils package. This is Bruce Johnston's APPX utility package, and one of the utilities allows you to see who has what files open and also allows you to kill APPX sessions. This would help you identify which APPX session is holding the record. You can get this from www.cansyswest.com, under Free Stuff. You also need the NT Resource Kit to make these work.

(From ECRs #5174 and #5028.)

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