Powershell: Script to delete Windows User Profiles on Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2

As promised in my previous post,I am back with a Powershell script which helps you in deleting a user’s windows profile either on local computer or on multiple remote computers. This script users Win32_UserProfile class which is available in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 2008(R2). So it will not work for Windows XP and 2003 hosts.

In this script I am making use of a method called Delete() which is available for each profile queried through Win32_UserProfile WMI class. Using this script you can delete one profile at a time on a single computer or list of remote computers. This script will also display the result of operation you are performing. That means it will tell whether it succeed in deleting the profile or failed. And it will also tell you if the script is unable to find the profile you are trying to delete.

Code: Remove-UserProfile.ps1

[cmdletbinding()]            
param(            
 [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]            
 [string[]]$ComputerName = $env:computername,            
 [parameter(mandatory=$true)]            
 [string]$UserName            
            
)            
            
Begin {}            
            
Process {            
            
    foreach($Computer in $ComputerName) {            
     Write-Verbose "Working on $Computer"            
     if(Test-Connection -ComputerName $Computer -Count 1 -ea 0) {            
      $Profiles = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserProfile -Computer $Computer -ea 0            
      foreach ($profile in $profiles) {            
       $objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($profile.sid)            
       $objuser = $objsid.Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount])            
       $profilename = $objuser.value.split("\")[1]            
       if($profilename -eq $UserName) {            
        $profilefound = $true            
        try {            
         $profile.delete()            
         Write-Host "$UserName profile deleted successfully on $Computer"            
        } catch {            
         Write-Host "Failed to delete the profile, $UserName on $Computer"            
        }            
       }            
      }            
            
      if(!$profilefound) {            
       write-Warning "No profiles found on $Computer with Name $UserName"            
      }            
     } else {            
      write-verbose "$Computer Not reachable"            
     }            
    }            
            
    }            
            
end {}

Output:

You can use this script to delete profile from list of remote computers either by providing the list via command line or using a text file. See below two cases to get more insight about how to use the script in such cases.

.\Remove-UserProfile.ps1 -ComputerName PC1, PC2, PC3 -UserName LocalUser2

Get-Content c:\temp\Computers.txt | .\Remove-UserProfile.ps1 -UserName LocalUser2

Hope this helps… Feel free to write in comments section if you have any doubts or looking for some enhancements to the script. Happy to help.