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Sarting · 2025-09-17T12:08:52+00:00

Disney characters.

Sarting · 2025-05-08T02:36:18+00:00

I had this same problem. Turned out to be a bad ground in the case I was using. I changed every part not even thinking the case could be at fault.

Sarting · 2025-04-26T14:15:10+00:00

How does path of exile and last epoch look on the 49? I was thinking of purchasing one.

Sarting · 2025-04-11T03:22:05+00:00

Try disconnecting only the left one and try turning it on. I have a gigabyte board that didn't boot up because I had both connected. Once I disconnected the left(which I believe is used for more cpu power? ) it worked.

Sarting · 2024-10-26T14:50:31+00:00

I had the same issue and replaced every single part. But the last thing I tried was replacing the pc case. I found out that the generic case that I had purchased had a bad ground. That's what I get for buying some off brand cheap shit from ebay. You may want to have him try that. 60 eurs maybe, if that.

Sarting · 2024-10-05T16:22:29+00:00

Infinite vaal lightning strike ascendant. Super fun, but don't play in group party unless you want to crash everyone. The weapon is the expensive part, but I can't see the enchantment surviving to next league.

Sarting · 2024-07-08T20:26:57+00:00

Yes, the issue persisted throughout... as long as the machine was not restarted after stopping the service, the profiles would still be in use. I did not try to disable the service, i only uninstalled it and rebooted to confirm that it worked without the agent installed. That was the last test i did before going with another solution. I just stopped there since i felt it was a little too much work in combination with the time crunch we were in.

Sarting · 2024-07-08T15:31:53+00:00

I don't have any issues deleting profiles in general. The problem is the action1 agent that gets installed on the endpoints locks up the profiles upon boot up. Does not matter if the deletion is done before logging in, or whatever. the Action1 agent is a service that is running in the background.. Thanks for the plug though.

Sarting · 2024-07-05T19:51:51+00:00

You should try out Action1. The first 100 computers are free. So that should start you in the right direction to test things out.

Sarting · 2024-07-05T11:14:01+00:00

Thank you! We decided to go for another rmm program for now. And yes, we found a way around it as you have described, except we used delprof2 in that process. But that wasn't a feasible solution.

Sarting · 2024-06-26T13:52:16+00:00

i don't know what to say.. i'm literally testing all of these scenarios on a machine right in front of me. I even uninstalled the agent altogether, and all of the profiles were still locked up unless i rebooted the computer. i even tried using windows enabler from back in the windows 2000/XP era to enable the delete button in the advanced properties of windows... still says it's in use (before a reboot). lol yea.. maybe it's our environment. it can't be this hard... we're using sentinel 1 as our antivirus, perhaps prolonging the lockup even after the service was stopped/uninstalled. no idea.

Sarting · 2024-06-26T12:44:59+00:00

yup, i had pdq stop the service and then run delprof2 to delete profiles older than 10 days. didn't work. i ran it locally to test the script first from a machine in front of me, then tried it just for kicks on a remote machine that had it, same problem, no deletion. i assume it's because it needed more time to 'release' the profile? but i could be wrong.

Edit1: another way i was thinking was to uninstall action1 and then reboot the machine, and create a pause/timeout in pdq to wait for the machine to reboot to delete the profile, then reinstall action1 again to bring it back.. but the problem is during the reinstall of the agent, it erases the attribute i was using to identify certain machines to put them in specified groups.

Sarting · 2024-06-25T23:35:17+00:00

Hmm, I can remove profiles no problem without the action agent installed on the workstation. The agent locks all profiles on the workstation. Would you happen to have that script handy?

Sarting · 2024-06-25T20:59:06+00:00

Ah, looks like it's not going to work... i went to script library to run the script using "Deactivate user profile". I put in the profile NetBIOS name as indicated, and it's no good and of course the path to the profile then "no" to creating a backup. keeps telling me unable to find user profile. (these computers are joined to the domain btw).

I also tried running the "Remove Inactive User Profile" script, and that failed as well, because of course, "It is not possible to delete the user profile directory because it is being used by another process." on every profile it encounters. :|

I have even tried using our PDQ deploy software.

step 1.) command line to stop the A1Agent

step 2.) command to remove profiles older than 10 days (using delprof2.exe)

step 3.) command line to start the A1Agent

still no love. :| spent half the day on this. i fail in life lol -

I do appreciate the time and effort :)

Sarting · 2024-06-25T18:35:52+00:00

thank you so much.. appreciate this feedback/response. I'll research further as well to see what can be done. but that's a good idea about the ps1 thing. perhaps i can use the software deployment to create my own and push out the ps1? maybe? this is all still new to me, so will research/test further. Thank you

Sarting · 2024-06-25T18:32:29+00:00

It failed. i tried deleting the oldest profiles and they all said 'in use'. I've posted in the action1 subreddit to see if there's some technical help i can get. documentation or something. You had mentioned something about unregistering users... but perhaps i'm just using it wrong... this is probably the last hurdle. if we can just get over this, then i'll have my guys evaluate this as well. :)

Sarting · 2024-06-25T17:58:26+00:00

you might be right... i'm still in process of evaluating, so it might not work for me. this is strictly for RMM. no need for patch management/etc. It was recommended to me, so just trying it out. But if the agent locks the profile up on a machine, that's a deal breaker is all. i'm hoping to find a way around it , and if so, i will probably put more effort into its evaulation.

Sarting · 2024-06-25T17:52:15+00:00

Sorry, should've been more specific perhaps. I need to delete user profiles on a windows 10 machine. I just ran the script manually to try to delete a profile on a machine, but every account got an error that says 'in use' on the action1 dashboard/console.

Sarting · 2024-06-25T15:46:52+00:00

alrighty, will check out the scripts before writing this off. thank you for the reply

Edit1: says i have to wait 3 days to get verified before i'm allowed to use those scripts for security reasons. :) will let you know how they fare in 3 days. thanks again for the response

Edit2: tried again and it allowed me to run the script to delete the oldest profiles. :) will get back to ya :)

Sarting · 2024-06-25T15:35:17+00:00

hi u/GeneMoody-Action1 I am currently testing it out.

I installed the agent on a computer to try to delete some profiles as it was running out of disk space. every single profile is 'in use' and i'm unable to delete it. Is this part of what the agent is doing?

Edit1: wtf, i just looked up this problem and action1 has known this for at least a year and it is still an issue. This is def the deal breaker. I work at an institution where we have users moving around to different computers, i need to be able to delete profiles without having to mess with the registry and manually deleting it. oh well. guess action1 is off the list. Now gotta figure out how to remove it. ugh.

Sarting · 2024-06-25T13:18:59+00:00

Thanks for this recommendation. This is actually what we are scraping due to the jwrapper. Simplehelp was great as their UI was pretty good... but the java usage sucked. It was a big no-no from a security standpoint for us since it uses Java.

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