Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system

[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

 

[R. McCarty]

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
newsF5CC1F4-68FC-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

 

[John John (MVP)]

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
> newsF5CC1F4-68FC-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
>
>
>

 

[R. McCarty]

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
>> newsF5CC1F4-68FC-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
>>
>>

 

[Sandy Wood]

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
> >> newsF5CC1F4-68FC-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
> >>
> >>
>
>