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Deleting user profile from Domain PC (Win 7) not working

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HopnDude

IS-IT--Management
Oct 25, 2007
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Domain Controllers are Server 08

Local machine my fellow employee is using is Windows 7 x64

My Boss put another PC on the domain, and just gave it a name, but not the name I told him. So there was a name conflict and consequently caused a disconnect in the kerberos handshake. I fixed the name issue between both PC's, but on the fellow employee's computer, she started getting all sorts of errors trying to access programs after I rejoined her to the domain.

Question:

How do I COMPLETELY delete her AD User from this machine (isn't working like Windows XP - delete user folder from C:\Document and Settings). I've already removed her user folder, to a flash drive to pick through files later. And every time I log in with her user profile I get an error pop up "User profile cannot be located, user is logged in with a Temporary Profile that will be deleted upon logoff". It's beginning to frustrate the hell out of me, and I'm about to reformat/reinstall Windows 7.

Any insight to this would be greatly appreciated.
 
On the Win7 in question you need to delete the users profile from the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

There will be a few profiles listed by SID. Find the one associated with the user and delete it. You may find another profile with the same SID and a .bak extension, delete it also.

John
 
Hopefully it was a one time issue due to my bosses lack of information. Aside from this, I was able to resolve the issue.
 
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