Anyone have a script to delete a specific local windows profile?

I wrote this VB script for a similar question on Server Fault. It will cycle through each Profile on the target machine, and prompt you (one by one) if you want to delete the profile. It does this the using WMI Win32_UserProfile, so it will be a clean removal.

It'll ask you for the FQDN of the target machine. If you are getting permissions errors, change the Username and Password to reflect an account that has Local Admin provs on the target machine.

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim strComputer
Dim objWMIService
Dim propValue
Dim objItem
Dim SWBemlocator
Dim UserName
Dim Password
Dim colItems
Dim strMessage
Dim deleteResponse

strComputer = ""
UserName = ""
Password = ""
strMessage = ""

strComputer = InputBox("Please enter the FQDN of the new computer:")

If strComputer = "" Then
    WScript.quit
End If

If Not Ping (strComputer) Then
    MsgBox "The computer (" + strComputer + ") is not responding to ping - exiting"
    WScript.quit
End if

Set SWBemlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = SWBemlocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\CIMV2",UserName,Password)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_UserProfile",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
    strMessage = ""
    If not objItem.LastDownloadTime = "" Then 
        strMessage = strMessage + "LastDownloadTime: " & left(objItem.LastDownloadTime,8) + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    If Not objItem.LastUploadTime = "" Then
        strMessage = strMessage + "LastUploadTime: " & left(objItem.LastUploadTime,8) + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End if

    if not objItem.LastUseTime = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "LastUseTime: " & left(objItem.LastUseTime,8) + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    If Not objItem.Loaded  = "" Then
        strMessage = strMessage + "Loaded: " & objItem.Loaded + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    If not objItem.LocalPath = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "LocalPath: " & objItem.LocalPath + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.RefCount = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "RefCount: " & objItem.RefCount + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.RoamingConfigured = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "RoamingConfigured: " & objItem.RoamingConfigured + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.RoamingPath = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "RoamingPath: " & objItem.RoamingPath + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.RoamingPreference = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "RoamingPreference: " & objItem.RoamingPreference + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.SID = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "SID: " & objItem.SID + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.Special = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "Special: " & objItem.Special + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    if not objItem.Status = "" then
        strMessage = strMessage + "Status: " & objItem.Status + Chr(10) + Chr(13)
    End If

    strMessage = strMessage + Chr(10) + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + Chr(13) + "Do you wish to delete this profile?"

    deleteResponse = MsgBox (strMessage,35,"Profile Found")

    Select Case deleteResponse
        Case 6
                Err.Clear
                objItem.Delete_
                If Err.Number = 0 Then 
                        MsgBox("Profile " & objitem.localpath & " on " & strComputer & " deleted")
                Else
                        MsgBox("Profile " & objitem.localpath & " on " & strComputer & " NOT deleted - Is user logged in?")             
                End If
    End Select

Next

Function Ping(strHost)

    dim objPing, objRetStatus

    set objPing = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}").ExecQuery _
      ("select * from Win32_PingStatus where address = '" & strHost & "'")

    for each objRetStatus in objPing
        if IsNull(objRetStatus.StatusCode) or objRetStatus.StatusCode<>0 then
                Ping = False
        else
            Ping = True
        end if
    Next
End Function

It doesn't work using the same workflow you detailed (it requesting a username first). The problem with this approach is that the Win32_UserProfile doesn't contain the Username, only thr SID. When the user logs into the machine the SID is used to decide which profile is the correct one. This prevents problems with renaming a user accounts in AD.

tsprofilecleaner is a free gui that can remove a profile from a list of servers: link text

I think the Cntrl+Alt+Del Consultancy in Australia developed a tool that might help you. It's called REMPROF and with this command, you can just delete a single profile off a server. Of course, you would have to substitute the actual user name in the command:

remprof USERNAME

I don't believe you can run this remotely from another server & you can't run this without administrative rights, unfortunately. I don't believe your support staff will be able to manage users & user profiles on the any server without being a member of the local admins group.

At any rate, you can download REMPROF & many other useful tools from the Cntrl+Alt+Del Consultancy web site here:

http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_TSUtils.htm

I hope this helps.

Alicia

Well instead we decided there was no good enough reason to keep any profiles on Citrix servers (they're roaming anyway with any real data redirected) so we set policy to delete profile when user logs off. thanks all for the suggestions.

Powershell does it in pretty easy way if you are using windows 7 or windows 2008 computer.

http://techibee.com/powershell/powershell-script-to-delete-windows-user-profiles-on-windows-7windows-2008-r2/1556

We use User Profile Hive Cleanup Service + small script which remove all USER profile when server start. Working goood

You can use delprof or remprof for profile deletion. You can create a script from those commands or you can use tsprofcleaner.

The users hive is located under their user directory (NTUSER.DAT) so deleting the directory with an rmdir /s /q {username} should suffice. The only part that wouldn't be deleted is under the profile list in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList but all that does is map the SID to a profile location.

If the user logs in and the directory doesn't exist, it'll be created again.

Unfortunately, without having them elevate themselves as admins, they won't be able to delete user profiles.

Batch file:

set /p USERTODEL=Enter the username to delete: 
set USERTODEL=C:\Users\%USERTODEL%
if exist "%USERTODEL%" rmdir /s /q %USERTODEL%