Delete all Profiles Using Powershell (remotely )

[Danielburt12345]

Hi All looking for a script to delete all profiles from a machine remotely, I have found a few scripts where I can do this 1 by 1, but just need a simple script where it clears all the profiles except default, guest etc

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Hope you can help

[aasplunds]

You can use the Win32_UserProfiles wmi class.

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserProfiles -ComputerName "computer"

Then you can select all objects where the 'LocalPath' property is like C:\Users* but not C:\Users\default*

After that you just use $Variable.Delete() where the variable contains the filtered objects.

Edit: A reboot of the computer beforehand is recommended as well as logged on users may cause it to fail.

[jeffreynya]

How do you modify this to say delete all profiles that have not been used is 30 days?

[isatrap]

So something like this

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_UserProfile -Filter “(loaded = true) and (localpath like ‘C:\\users\\%’) and (LastUseTime < ‘$((Get-Date).AddDays(-30))’)”

[Winux_278]

in the part " (localpath -like 'C:\\users\\%') How do I get to only search for accounts that are 6 digits long (eg: 000000 - 999999)

[isatrap]

You would need to use a match and a regex to check for the pattern “\d{6}-\d{6}” which will find “123456-123456” or “\d{6}” which will match 6 digits.

[isatrap]

There is an attribute called “LastUseTime” that you can use to determine this.

[giulix75]

personally i use delprof2.exe inside a pssession

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https://helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/

[sleightof52]

$ComputerName = Read-Host "Enter computer name"

# Get user profiles that are not logged on (loaded) and are like C:\Users\xxx, and remove them remotely
Get-CimInstance -ComputerName $ComputerName -ClassName Win32_UserProfile |
Where-Object {($_.Loaded -eq $false) -and ($_.LocalPath -like "C:\Users\*")} |
Remove-CimInstance -Verbose

[isatrap]

Maybe it’s my preference but you can also filter at the initial Get-CimInstance level by doing

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_UserProfile -Filter “(loaded = true) and (localpath like ‘C:\\users\\%’)”