Using Delprof

Delprof is a Microsoft program that allows you to remotely delete local user profiles, which is very practical if you are in a company and you have a lot of old user profiles taking up space on hard drives.

There are two ways of using Delprof:

• By running the program from its installation directory

You will need to go to the folder where Delprof has been installed (%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kit\Tools) and double click on the delprof.exe file.
A confirmation will be displayed asking if you want to delete all the profiles.

• By running the program from the command line

Delprof can be run from the command line but for repetitive tasks it is better to create a .bat file and incorporate the appropriate commands. You can then run the .bat file as a scheduled task whenever you need it (once a week for example).

After having installed the Delprof program, start the DOS box (Start > Run and type “cmd”, [Enter]). The program is accessible from its install location with the following switches:

• DELPROF [/Q] [/I] [/P] [/R] [/C:\\Computername] [/d:Days]
  /Q  Doesn’t ask for confirmation before deleting the profile
  /I   Ignores errors and moves on to the next profile
  /P  Requests confirmation to delete each profile
  /R  Removes only each user profiles cache
  /C:\\ComputerName  Specifies the name or IP address of the remote machine
  /D:Days  Removes the profiles that have been inactive for a certain number of days

Here is an example of a batch (.bat) file:
Delprof /q /I /c:\\192.168.12.50
Rem Deleting unused profiles on the computer
Rem with IP address: 192.168.12.51 without asking confirmation
Rem and in the event of an error, passing to the next profile.

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