Deleting User Profiles in Vista

Bill Gross (IT Solutions) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:27:48 +0000

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

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aleadbeater — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:48:32 +0000

To modify the registry settings for all the users who log on to the computer, locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client

To modify the registry settings for only the currently logged on user, locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
In the New Value #1 box, type AuthenticationLevelOverride, and then press ENTER.
Right-click AuthenticationLevelOverride, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type one of the following values, and then click OK:

0 – Type this value to configure an authentication level of “No authentication.”
1 – Type this value to configure an authentication level of “Require authentication.”
2 – Type this value to configure an authentication level of “Attempt authentication.”

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