Wrecked 26 registries help

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Chris Meech

I have stupidly been deleting user profiles (lots)
manually in C:docs&settings. I now realise that the
registry still contains all the keys to the deleted
users. Took me 20 minutes to delete them on one machine.
With 25 more to do is there a quicker way than checking
the SD and deleting manually?
 
Chris Meech wrote in
I have stupidly been deleting user profiles (lots)
manually in C:docs&settings. I now realise that the
registry still contains all the keys to the deleted
users. Took me 20 minutes to delete them on one machine.
With 25 more to do is there a quicker way than checking
the SD and deleting manually?
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I think you are looking for "Delete the accounts" from Users and
Passwords.
 
Chris Meech wrote in
Thanks Mark, all those unknown users? Then the registry
keys will go as well?
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Your situation is not perfectly clear. A stand-alone system or a
Domain client....

Deleting a local user account may not be all you want. That and
"JackOfHearts" pointer to the built-in User Profiles management
facility may be. There can still be "account unknown" ACEs on files
after this though as those ACEs now contain a non-existent SID.

Backup files/registry then evaluate the suggestions in your
environment.
 
Sorry Mark, I didn't explain well.
To recap: W2k server, 26 W2KProf clients.
I have lots of users, when they left I was deleting their
user profile directly from C:DocsSettings. Then realised
that the registry -
HKlocalMachine...WinnNT/Software...CurrentVersion/ProfileL
ist has entries relating to the deleted profiles. Have
been double clicking on ProfileImagePath to identify the
user and if it's one of the deleted profile users
deleting it from the registry. My query was is there a
quicker way of doing this.
 
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