- March 24, 2015
- Posted by: Syed Shujaat
- Category: Desktop Solutions
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How do I delete a user profile on a Windows 7 machine Stand-Alone machine/Domain?
Given Below are three methods.
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
clear user local profile via registry:
- Press on Start > Run >Regedit
- Navigate to the following registry key :“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”
- 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_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”
Group Policy over the Network
GPO: Computer Configuration \ Policies \ Administrative Templates \ System \ User Profiles This seems the perfect answer for deleting old domain users
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