Sysdm.cpl (that’s a lowercase “L”) opens the System Properties screen from the command line. Press Windows Key + r to open the Run window then type sysdm.cpl Here you can see it matches the account I want to remove so I can safely delete this key by right clicking the in the left pane and choosing Delete. I’m aware the SID is long and it’s hard to know if you’ve got the right one so I always like to verify that I’m deleting the right registy key by checking the ProfileImagePath in the right pane. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ You should also delete the corresponding SID key from the Profile List.Ĭlick through the registry and select the you just sent to oblivion in the previous step. Oh, and I’ll refer to SID: S-1-5-21-3285709036-2449454244-3312884745-1105 as to save myself from typing this thing out.Ĭlick through to: HKEY_USERS\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Foldersĭeleting this key wipes the user’s profile residue from your PC. Let’s hunt it down so we can clean it up. This SID denotes the registry key that contains that domain user’s preferences. It should display a long, seemingly arbitrary, number that begins like this: Computer\HKEY_USERS\S. Pay attention to the Security Identifier (SID) in the status bar at the bottom of the Registry Editor.
Then right click it and choose Run as Administrator.Īfter backing up the registry we need to search for the domain account name but instead of taking a hours to purse the entire registry, just click HKEY_USERS in the left pane, press Ctrl + f and enter the username of the account folder you just ousted.
Go ahead and open the Registry as an Administrator. If you manually deleted the domain user folder from C:\Users we need to make clean up a few registry keys before we can call it day. Here are a few profile purging solutions that will leave your PC immaculate. Hmm, that sounds reasonable but it’s actually insufficient because vestiges of the registry remain and we need to axe those too. Ha! Easy! All I need to do is zap the folder inside C:\Users that matches the username of the domain joined user. Deleting user profiles from a domain joined PC?
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