A user profile is created the first time that a user logs on to a computer.
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The profile is stored on the computer's local hard disk C:Users<user name> profile folder, and it contains the account's settings for desktop backgrounds, screen savers, pointer preferences, sound settings, and other features. User profiles ensure that your personal preferences are used whenever you sign in to Windows. If a user's profile becomes corrupted, for example, when you log on to the computer, you receive the following error message: The User Profile Service failed the logon and User profile cannot be loaded. Then, these errors can be resolved by deleting the user profile and creating a new one.
ECHO Cleaning user registry for%USERREG% reg delete%1 /f. Use this free tool to delete domain user profile from Windows as well as delete a local user profile.
- Look for a way to remove wireless networks that no longer worked because their passwords have been changed? In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to delete wireless network profiles in Windows 10 / 8 / 7, using System Tray, Command Prompt or Registry Editor. Method 1: Delete Wireless Network Profile Using System Tray.
- Description: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Step1: In the Run menu type Regedit and hit the Enter key. Open Registry editor. Go to this location. Take a Registry Backup – Recommended – Right Click Export And Save it.
Method 1: Delete user profile in Advanced System Properties
Step 1: Open advanced system properties.
Press Windows logo+Pause Break keys, then click Advanced System Settings in the left pane.
Or by pressing Win+R to open Run dialog, type control sysdm.cpl in the field and click OK.
Step 2: In System Properties window, select Advanced tab, and click Settings under User Profiles.
Step 3: Select the profile of the user account, click Delete button.
Step 4: Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove all information associated with your user account.
A new profile for the user's account will be automatically created the next time that user signs in.
Method 2: Delete User Profile in Registry Editor
Step 1: Open Registry Editor.
Type Regedt32.exe into Search box, then hit Enter key.
Step 2: In the left side of Registry Editor, navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionProfileList
Delete the ProfileList key, then all user profiles will be removed completely.
Step 3: Click on Yes to confirm to delete the profile's reference in the registry.
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Active10 months ago
I have tried to:
- Remove a user from the Control Panel, but the C:Usersbob folderstill remains.
- Manually deleting it works sometimes if I delete all subfolders, butsome users folders do not allow me to delete:C:UsersbobAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsLibrarieseven if a I take ownership...
- Deleting the the Account Unknown from System Settings following
instructions from this post , throws the errorProfile not deleted completely. Error - The directory is not empty.
EDIT: I probably should have mentioned that this is in a Windows 10 Home edition.
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2 Answers
The steps:
- WIN-R to open the Run Window and type
services.msc
- Find the
Windows Search
service and stop it
You may notice that the 'Libraries' folder disappears from appdataroamingmicrosoftwindowsLibraries when you do this.
- Delete the User folder!
- Right click
Windows Search
in the services window again and START it.
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Following is a copy of the solution How to delete domain user profile from a computer? which should work equally well on a local computer with Windows 10.
- 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.
If you have a greyed out button it means that the registry hive has not been released by the operating system, as pointed out by @joeqwerty in the original post.
You could always just delete the
C:Users[ACCOUNT]
directory, but that leaves some registry entries behind that have to be manually deleted.Deleting any leftover Registry 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.Community♦
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