Thanks to my colleague Marc Biarnes from our EMEA team in France for this posting. I don’t often do 2003 postings, but this is something that comes up with our support team quite frequently. Over to Marc:
First, I used 2 tools provided in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit and available on the Microsoft website :
Then, when the Resource Kit is installed, I followed these steps :
1. Start a MS-DOS command prompt
2. Execute the following command line : C:ResKitinstsrv.exe “ViewsMaintenance” C:ReskitToolssrvany.exe
3. Open Regedit.exe (Start, Run, regedit.exe)
4. Select the following entry : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesViewsMaintenance
5. From the Edit Menu, click Add Key and name it Parameters
6. From the Edit menu, click on Add Value and type this information:
Value Name : Application
Data Type : REG_SZ
String : <path>ViewsMaintenance.exe
7. In the Service console, you can start the service
By default, the service will start automatically.
To remove it, you can use the following MS-DOS command prompt : C:ResKitinstsrv.exe “ViewsMaintenance” REMOVE