I have XP Pro SP3 and run a lot of eventtriggers, but since installing SP3 I cant delete them! The standard command "eventtriggers /delete /tid <xx>", where <xx> is the trigger id, now gives "ERROR: Bad variable type". How can I now delete these please? I have CIM Studio installed but cannot find them there.

Did you check to make sure they didn't get renamed on you?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490901.aspx

Nothing has been renamed.

7 April 2009: Can somebody possibly pass this up the wire to Microsoft, as I have an application failing because it cannot now issue this command without returning an error?

Edited April 7, 200917 yr by Archdeacon

Hi,

I've just encountered this problem myself and searched Google up down and sideways, without success, and the only work-around I could find in the short-term is to delete with wildcard: *

eventtriggers /delete /tid *

It's certainly not a good fix in your situation, with many event triggers, but if you delete them all and then re-enter the ones you want... it's a short-term fix.

I suppose you could write them and keep them in a text file for later re-entering; copy and paste, or some other means... maybe a batch file:

eventtriggers /create /tr [New Trigger #1] /l application /t error /tk [command to execute]

eventtriggers /create /tr [New Trigger #2] /l application /t error /tk [command to execute]

My apologies if you have already considered this or tried it.

Regards,

Matt