{"id":1910,"date":"2010-06-14T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2010-06-14T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T16:49:31","slug":"forcibly-deleting-remnants-of-a-windows-user-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/forcibly-deleting-remnants-of-a-windows-user-profile.htm","title":{"rendered":"Forcibly deleting remnants of a Windows user profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again, I come across an issue that takes up far more of my time than it should do&#8230; and, this afternoon, that&#8217;s exactly what happened so I&#8217;m posting the details here for anyone else in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d installed a new copy of Windows in a virtual machine and, because it wasn&#8217;t domain-joined as part of the setup, the out of the box settings made me create a local user account that I didn&#8217;t need.\u00c2\u00a0 After joining the domain and logging in as an administrator, I deleted the account and the profile, but was given a warning that not all files were removed.\u00c2\u00a0 I checked and, sure enough,\u00c2\u00a0the folder for the account (called Mark) was still there in C:\\Users.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the usual attempts to remove it failed, regardless of what I did with permissions until I found a post on the My Digital Life blog, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/2007\/05\/25\/delete-undeletable-files-in-windows-vista\/\">Delete Undeletable Files in Windows Vista<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I was running Windows 7 but this advice for Vista sounded hopeful, so I ran the following commands against the folder that was causing me grief:<\/p>\n<p><code>takeown \/f <em>foldername<\/em> \/r \/d y<br \/>\nicacls <em>foldername<\/em> \/grant administrators:F \/t<\/code><\/p>\n<p>(for files, I would not have needed the <code>\/r<\/code> switch on the <code>takeown<\/code> command to recurse the folder structure.)<\/p>\n<p>I was still having trouble deleting the folder from Windows Explorer; however these commands had given me the clue I needed (and answered why Explorer told me that the location was shared, but it didn&#8217;t show up in the list of shares&#8230;) &#8211; the AppData hidden folder was still there.<\/p>\n<p>Using the command line, I navigated C:\\Users\\Mark\\AppData and its two trees (Local and Roaming) to remove around 10 files and folders, after which I was able to successfully remove the C:\\Users\\Mark folder.<\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way, I could log in with my domain account (also called Mark) and its profile was created at C:\\Users\\Mark instead of C:\\Users\\Mark.<em>domainname<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again, I come across an issue that takes up far more of my time than it should do&#8230; and, this afternoon, that&#8217;s exactly what happened so I&#8217;m posting the details here for anyone else in the same situation. 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