Deleting Local Profiles

[chrbb]

I run a psexec batch file to delete profiles in the suite, generally once a month, I use the 'delete except' vbs script - found on this site
I leave the pupil set of laptops alone in case the wireless goes down so that users can use cached profiles to log on, and don't let delprof anywhere near the staff laptops so i don't delete anyone's work!

[witch]

To reinforce the cautionary tale: I ran delprof- carefully avoiding the staff laptops - but forgot that the ART computer is used locally as well as on the network (no, I don't know why either!)
Cue a very upset teacher whose pics of the whole schools art work had vanished....
Luckily, the handy little prog called 'recuva' recommended on this site found everything which was moved onto the server very quickly.
The local log on was speedily removed as well

[chrbb]

Does recuva recover even deleted profiles then? Handy to know just in case

[tjb]

Originally Posted by webman

Bossman made a vbscript to delete all but some profiles from local machines, and assigned it via GPO as a shutdown script. Attached here, might be handy...

Does anyone have a copy of Bossman's profiles-clean.vbs script anywhere please as the attached zip file appears to be corrupt?

[mrtechsystems]

Check this out aswell


Delete Local Profiles (VBScript)

[Andi]

Has anybody successfully deployed delprof via GPO then? I've extracted the files to get the msi but deploy doesn't work.

I know that you can get it to run from a server, but this scrolls through machines one at a time and takes a while, whereas if I had it installed locally I could run a whole room at a time, as well as other scheduled tasks, (Virus scan, defrag etc).

[Andi]

Scratch that, I've successfully deployed it with a script.

[mullet_man]

Originally Posted by mattx

Deleting local profiles using Delprof can take time - [ depending on how large the profiles are to start with ] and you will be surprised as to how large local profiles can be.
Not advisable running on startup.
If you need to remove all the profiles over the summer the best way would be to make a .txt file with the names of your PCs in and then run delprof from a PC that has admin rights on over the network. [ Make sure all the PCs are turned on !! ]
Create a txt file called computers.txt - make sure each computer name is on a new line then:

For /f %a in (computers.txt) Do 
Delprof.exe /I /Q /C:\\%a /D:90

Delprof will then delete all the profiles that haven't been used in 90 days that are in the txt file.

Just had a little go with this before I left school but couldn't get it going.

If i put the code into a batch file in a folder with delprof and computers.txt file it should work when running?

Upon running it I got nothing back, and sometimes got an unepected in error.

Any pointers?

[WHSadmin]

Originally Posted by Oops_my_bad

the little darlings

I thought I was the only one that called them that!!!

Thanks for the script. Works a charm. This forum is the best resource for a new Administrator like me. Thanks very much to you all!!!!

[chrispso]

I thought i read someone's post that if you set the user up as a Domain Guest that their local profile will be deleted after log off, i've tried this and it didn't work. Is there something else i need to do?