Oct 02, 2019 Decide if you want to keep or delete the files created under the account by clicking Keep Files or Delete Files. Click Delete Account. But the only option avalaible are change the picture or turn off the guest account I'm on windows 7 64bits logged as administrator, I saw on other forum users with the same problem but no solution was proposed. Chose the one with the desired user and delete the long registry key like: HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList. You will then need to either rename (preferable), or delete the user profile on disk under C:Users%username%. Sep 23, 2015 How to Easily Delete a User Profile in Windows 7 Open Control Panel. Click the System icon. On the left side, click Advanced system settings as shown in Figure 1. Feb 21, 2012 Fixes an issue in which stale user profile folders are not deleted completely if the 'Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart' Group Policy is applied. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Aug 06, 2015 Make sure that user does not have any active/disconnected session. You can check that in Task Manager Users. Log off that user, you'll see the delete button. Dec 25, 2011 Windows 7: Unable to delete old user folder. You will not be able to delete the user profile folder unless you are not currently logged in that user account, and you have already deleted the user account in User Accounts (Control Panel) first.
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How can I delete the local user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is connected to a Windows Server 2008 domain?
DelProf doesn't seem to exist on Windows 7.
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You can do it with the User Profiles dialog in System Properties:
- Log in as different user (with admin privileges) than you want to delete
- Open Properties for Computer
- Advanced system settings (on the left side)
- Settings for User Profiles (in the middle)
- Select the profile you want to delete and click the delete button
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To clear user local profile via registry:
- Click Start → Run → Regedit
- Navigate to the following registry key :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList
- Under ProfileList navigate to binary key’s like this:
S-1-5-21-3656904587-1668747452-4095529-500
- On the right side under ProfileImagePath you'll see the profile path.
- Chose the one with the desired user and delete the long registry key like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList
You will then need to either rename (preferable), or delete the user profile on disk under
punC:Users%username%
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I have developed an unofficial successor to Microsoft's Delprof called Delprof2. It is syntax compatible to the original but more powerful.
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GPO: Computer Configuration Policies Administrative Templates System User ProfilesThis seems the perfect answer for deleting old domain users
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I'm wondering how to safely remove a domain user profile from a computer that is a part of a domain. I don't want to delete the account from the domain itself, I just need to remove the profile from this computer, to do some cleanup.
I'm currently on a Vista Business computer, but we also have Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro.
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- Open up 'Control Panel | System and Security | System'
- In the dialog click on 'Advanced system settings' (requires Admin rights)
- The 'System Properties' dialog will be displayed
- Make sure you are in the 'Advanced' register
- In the 'User Profiles' section click on 'Settings'
- The 'User Profiles' dialog is displayed
- Select the account. Hit Delete.
Faster:
- Start | Run
- sysdm.cpl
- switch to register 'Advanced'
- In the 'User Profiles' section click on 'Settings'
- The 'User Profiles' dialog is displayed
- Select the account. Hit Delete.
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The greyed out button possibly means that the registry hive has not been released by the operating system, as pointed out by @joeqwerty in the comments.
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You could always delete the
C:Users[ACCOUNT]
directory, but that leaves some registry entries behind that have to be manually deleted.Deleting the Registy Keys
- Open Regedit with Administrator Permissions (Runas Administrator)
- Select the
HKEY_USERS
branch - Search for the Domain Account without the domain (e.g. login = DOMAINACCOUNT then search for ACCOUNT)
- Keep on searching until the status bar shows
ComputerHKEY_USERS[SID]SoftwareMicrosoftWindwosCurrentVersionExplorerShell Folders
- There should be a large list of your ACCOUNTs folders e.g.
C:UsersACCOUNTDesktop
You are in the right
HKEY_USERS[SID]SoftwareMicrosoftWindwosCurrentVersionExplorerShell Folders
branch if the ACCOUNT in 'Shell Folders' matches the ACCOUNT you just manually deleted form the C:Users[ACCOUNT]
directory. This branch [SID] can be exported and/or deleted to clean up the last of the user profile.hot2usehot2use
In case if user profile folder is/was deleted manually, you need to make changes to registry
1. Open 'regedit.exe'
2. Navigate to 'HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList'
3. Click the sub-key that corresponds with the profile you deleted and right click and delete it.
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The safest method is as follows. (Written on Windows 7, but applicable to XP onwards)
- Go to Start
- Right click '
Computer
and selectProperties
- Select
Advanced System Settings
[Skip this step on XP] - Choose the
Advanced
Tab - Under
User Profiles
, selectSettings
(NB: This may take some time to enumerate) - Select the username you wish to delete and select
Delete
This will remove any profile data on the local machine. Do not be tempted to just delete the profile directory as this will leave registry entries behind that will cause problems on Vista onwards.
I also recommend 'RemProf' from the excellent Ctrl-Alt-Del TS Util Pack. Ignore that the pack is terminal services centric, the utility works fine on desktop editions. Just note the different versions for XP/2003 and Vista/7/2008/R2
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If the account is grayed out, then the account has Windows services or scheduled tasks tied to it. You will need to change the account on these services or task. Once done you will have to re-boot the PC and then it will allow you to delete the profile.
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