drdread
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3 years ago
Trying to remove an Exchange 2019

Have moved all mailboxes, auditlog mailboxes, arbitration mailboxes and public folders

Receiving

Error:
Setup can't continue with the uninstall because the taskhostw (7840) has open files. Close the process, and then restart Setup.
http://technet.microsoft.com/library (EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.ProcessNeedsToBeClosedOnUninstall.aspx

What is the taskhostw service?

The MS page is not created yet...

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drdread
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3 years ago
I ended 'Hosted Process for Windows Tasks on two counts in Taskmgr.exe and the issue was gone