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When we disabled the ability to have a Temporary Profile the users then may run into a "The User Profile Service service failed the logon. You can generally gut printer related keys from the registry like a savage and not hurt anything as long as its a profile located entry. Because the registry is so filled up we have been experiencing User Profile issues causing Temporary Profiles to load.
#Sharp printers registry bloat driver
In order to remove I had to CLI the to remove the "DevModes2" key and then recreate the key in Regedit.Īs soon as I login with an account that has a printer deployed to them with the Samsung Universal Print Driver these keys start appearing and bloat out the registry. Select Apply and OK on the Print Server Properties windows.
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If you see it click on it and click Remove at the bottom. When I did it I cleared the HKU\.default\Printers\DevModes2 as well since this section would not even open in Regedit. Windows Key+R, type Cmd, hit Enter Type printui.exe /s > OK. Cleaning the ".Default" section also cleaned the "S-1-5-18" keys, so I'm thinking these are a reference link within the Registry. Taking one of the servers out of the mix I tried cleaning up these keys and was able to. You can definitely tell they are Samsung Universal as the values reference Samsung Universal when you view them. Looking into the data of the keys "Capabilities", "MUIData", etc. Registry Sections where the bloat is occurring: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\SSPrint\Įach of those subkeys has over 500+ keys where Registry Usage is reporting they are taking up 30-40MB each.Įxample subkey: HKU\.default\software\ssprint\spe_\
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Samsung Universal Print Driver: Version 2.3.90.Using Sysinternals Registry Usage (ru.exe) we were able to determine over 1000MB of the registry being used up by Samsung Universal Printer related keys. While running multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH farms we are experiencing an issue where the RDSH servers all are having their Registry bloated to the maximum value 2048MB.