Completely deleting a roaming user profile off of a PC?
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confused. You can't have a local computer profile and an AD profile named the same. It has to be one or the other -- and in my opinion, the only local profile you should have on a computer that is...
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I swore that's what I was doing. Well, I wasn't deleting the registry key. Instead, I went to:
Right Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> User Profiles (Settings)
I...
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Right, you need to manually do it. I've done this a number of times with our terminal server for profiles that get corrupted.
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On the flip side you can also use this method to associate an...
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So, by doing it manually, instead of using the built-in tool, it should work differently? I'll give it a shot!
Edit - Just to clarify, do you want me to delete the entire user's registry folder...
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Based on the information from this site:
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2011/07/how-to-reset-a-roaming-profile-in-windows-7/
Did you follow step 7? Did you go back into AD and delete/rename the...
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From my experience yes! I had tried with it the automated way and never got it to work. I think the SSID is still associated with the username...Deleting the key clears the SSID relationship to the...
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It *tries* to. What it does is it throws up an error complaining about the user profile directory not being empty. I then can go to C:/Users/, and see it's still there. Inside of it appears to be...
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is an AD rule pushing the printers to the users profile?
Completely deleting a roaming user profile off of a PC?
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Actually, ours is a local profile on the computer, rather than a roaming profile. You log in with our AD username and password, but the profile is local to the PC.
Negative.
I discovered...
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You need to rename/delete the user profile folder and then delete the registry key associated with it. Then when they log in again they will get a new SSID.
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Heres more specifically:...
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Aaaaargh!
I'm having a hell of a time with a problem on one of our computers at work. Long story short, we're trying to do something with it via Citrix, and things keep locking up. After days of...
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Gar, stupid Windows! :)
Lol, I think I edited my post at the same time you responded to it. So I'll repost it, just so it alerts you that I posted something different:
Thanks again for...
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Ok i figured as much when you said there was items in the users trash.
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I went ahead and just deleted the entire folder under ProfileList associated to that user. Restarted the computer, and had the same damn result. It still found the same printers, and still had...
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I tend to have found it was quicker to that then to try to fix the problem....
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So there are no GPOs set up to deploy the printer in question to this OU, for example?
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Also does "clearing" the user name in the control panel deleate the users files in c:/users/ ?
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Haha, yep, that's what I'm thinking too!
Correct.
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:lol: Proceed with all due haste to reformatting and reinstalling.