Remove Local user/Profile

Waqkas Ahmed

Hi All, I was looking for a powershell script which will remove a local user account along with their user profile. I have the following script which removes a local user but not their profile;

Param
(
[parameter(mandatory=$true,HelpMessage="Please enter the user account")][validateNotNullOrEmpty()][String]$localUser
)
Remove-LocalUser $localUser -Verbose

Read-Host -Prompt "Press Enter to exit"

Any way we can modify this script to include the profile please?

Mike Rodrick

Hi @Waqkas-Ahmed ,

You can use the CIM class Win32_UserProfile to enumerate as well as remove a local user profile. The cmdlets you will need are:
Get-CimInstance to enumerate profiles
Remove-CimInstance to delete profiles

Param (
  [parameter(mandatory=$true,HelpMessage="Please enter the user account")]
  [validateNotNullOrEmpty()]
  [String]$localUser
)
Remove-LocalUser $localUser -Verbose
Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_UserProfile | Where-Object { $_.LocalPath.split('\')[-1] -eq $localUser } | Remove-CimInstance
Read-Host -Prompt "Press Enter to exit"

The LocalPath property of a Win32_UserProfile object is the directory path for the profile, c:\user\mike, for example. We can use split to break the file path into substrings, at the backslashes. The -1 references the first substring starting from the end of the string or mike in this example. So we can use the $localUser variable to filter the Get-CimInstance cmdlet, and then pipe that into a Remove-CimInstance cmdlet.

Hope this helps,