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Remove User Profile Via Registry

November 18, 2019 Ayesh De Silva

I’m sure time to time all of us seen that windows users user profile get corrupted or some weirdest issue happened and get complain from end users. Specially in domain environment, you need to delete complete profile. Otherwise system will not allow to create a profile. So here is how we remove those profile.

Go to run and type regedit and enter

Navigate to the following registry key :“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”

Under ProfileList navigate to binary key’s like this: S-1-5-21-3656904587-1668747452-xxxxxxxxx etc

On the right side under ProfileImagePath you’ll see the profile path.

Chose the one with the desired user and delete the long registry key like: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”

Delete the one with the .bak or the one with the username in the list

Then you will have to reboot the PC and log back as user and it will create brand new profile.

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