Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

[Guest Sandy Wood]

Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP

system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in the

User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer and

noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to close

their handles.

 

Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles?

--

Sandy Wood

Orange County District Attorney

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

 

If the profiles are loaded is the machine using Fast User Switching ?

If so, then you'll want to log off those users. Actually in any business

environment I'd consider disabling Fast User Switching.

 

"Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@nospam.com> wrote in message

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> Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP

> system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in the

> User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer

> and

> noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to

> close

> their handles.

>

> Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles?

> --

> Sandy Wood

> Orange County District Attorney

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

 

Which would mean that the op isn't logged on to the domain, FUS is not

available on domains, at least not that I know of.

 

John

 

R. McCarty wrote:

> If the profiles are loaded is the machine using Fast User Switching ?

> If so, then you'll want to log off those users. Actually in any business

> environment I'd consider disabling Fast User Switching.

>

> "Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@nospam.com> wrote in message

> news:DF5CC1F4-68FC-431E-8374-49414B528764@microsoft.com...

>

>>Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP

>>system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in the

>>User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer

>>and

>>noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to

>>close

>>their handles.

>>

>>Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles?

>>--

>>Sandy Wood

>>Orange County District Attorney

>

>

>

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

 

I wondered about Domain participation as well.

 

"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message

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> Which would mean that the op isn't logged on to the domain, FUS is not

> available on domains, at least not that I know of.

>

> John

>

> R. McCarty wrote:

>

>> If the profiles are loaded is the machine using Fast User Switching ?

>> If so, then you'll want to log off those users. Actually in any business

>> environment I'd consider disabling Fast User Switching.

>>

>> "Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@nospam.com> wrote in message

>> news:DF5CC1F4-68FC-431E-8374-49414B528764@microsoft.com...

>>

>>>Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP

>>>system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in

>>>the

>>>User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer

>>>and

>>>noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to

>>>close

>>>their handles.

>>>

>>>Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles?

>>>--

>>>Sandy Wood

>>>Orange County District Attorney

>>

>>

[Guest Sandy Wood]

Re: Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

 

Yes, my system is a domian member. On another tip, I installed the User

Profile Hive Cleanup Service, rebooted and found that all the profiles were

now 'Delete-able' - I was able to clean out the old ones. Must have been

something bad in my profiles.

--

Sandy Wood

Orange County District Attorney

 

 

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> I wondered about Domain participation as well.

>

> "John John (MVP)" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message

> news:e0KtJzdDJHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> > Which would mean that the op isn't logged on to the domain, FUS is not

> > available on domains, at least not that I know of.

> >

> > John

> >

> > R. McCarty wrote:

> >

> >> If the profiles are loaded is the machine using Fast User Switching ?

> >> If so, then you'll want to log off those users. Actually in any business

> >> environment I'd consider disabling Fast User Switching.

> >>

> >> "Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@nospam.com> wrote in message

> >> news:DF5CC1F4-68FC-431E-8374-49414B528764@microsoft.com...

> >>

> >>>Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP

> >>>system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in

> >>>the

> >>>User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer

> >>>and

> >>>noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to

> >>>close

> >>>their handles.

> >>>

> >>>Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles?

> >>>--

> >>>Sandy Wood

> >>>Orange County District Attorney

> >>

> >>

>

>