Deleting User Profiles in Vista
By Bill Gross (IT Solutions) - Email
- Last updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment
When deleting user profiles in Vista, be careful how you go about it. If you simply delete their folder under Users, you can cause problems. If a user logs in with the account after the folder has been deleted, he or she will see errors stating that a temporary profile is being used and no changes will be saved.
Instead, be sure to use the delete tool under Control Panel –> User Accounts –> Configure advanced user profile properties. If you do make the mistake of doing it the “old” way, there is a registry key that you can delete:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
