Local Profile issue Win10

[itgeek]

Hi,

 

We have moved to local profiles and all was working well until I deleted the local profiles in the c:\users\username I think it put them in the registry profilelist. Is it possible to remove them in bulk on multiple machines?

 

 

Thanks in advance

[djm968]

What you are trying to achieve?

 

Local profiles are created in c:\users\%username% and if you delete these, it will break the profiles and you won't be able to log on, because the profile info is stored in the regkey below.

 

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Edited November 24, 2022 by djm968

[3s-gtech]

As above. If you've done this in bulk, you're going to have to script this to delete the keys for your users (avoiding ones you'll want to keep like Default User).

[itgeek]

Hi,

 

Yes that is what I have done delete the local profiles now I need a way to delete the reg keys. Does anyone have a script to do this?

 

Thanks

[djm968]

A script using Delprof https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5405 would be better option. This will delete the profiles and remove the regkeys.

 

You can also do this with a GPO (see below). Set the GPO to one or 2 days, and it will eventually clear out all older profiles, but I would set it for longer once old profiles have been cleared off all devices.

 

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles.

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/441800/group-policy-how-to-automatically-delete-user-prof.html

Edited November 24, 2022 by djm968

[mavhc]

Get-CimInstance win32_userprofile -verbose | Where {$_.LastUseTime -lt $(Get-Date).Date.AddDays(-120)} | Remove-CimInstance -Verbose

[Squip]

You can also do this with a GPO (see below). Set the GPO to one or 2 days, and it will eventually clear out all older profiles, but I would set it for longer once old profiles have been cleared off all devices.

 

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles.

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/441800/group-policy-how-to-automatically-delete-user-prof.html

This is what we do. Just be aware that the folders can take a little while to be deleted due to the sheer number of files within them (mostly in appdata).

We had a machine with over 50 local pupil profiles, and it taken around 15 mins to delete them all in the background after applying the gpo and rebooting.