Deleting XP Profiles

[Guest]

We have a computer lab that most of our students log onto. Some of the
workstations hard drives are filling up because of the student profiles being
created for each student that logs on. Is their anything that we can do to
periodically purge all the profiles on our lab workstations automatically...

Thanks in advance

 

[Gordon]

We have a computer lab that most of our students log onto. Some of the
workstations hard drives are filling up because of the student profiles
being
created for each student that logs on. Is their anything that we can do
to periodically purge all the profiles on our lab workstations
automatically...

Thanks in advance

If they do not save any documents in their profiles, and if you set IE to
delete cache on exit, then those profiles should take up VERY little
space......

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to assign a mandatory user profile in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307800/en-us

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| We have a computer lab that most of our students log onto. Some of the
| workstations hard drives are filling up because of the student profiles being
| created for each student that logs on. Is their anything that we can do to
| periodically purge all the profiles on our lab workstations automatically...
|
| Thanks in advance

 

[Mike Williams]

If they do not save any documents in their profiles, and if you set IE to
delete cache on exit, then those profiles should take up VERY little
space......

There's a profile deletion tool delprof.exe in the Windows Resource Kit.
Googling "WIndows delete profiles" gives pages and pages of tips...

 

[mrgoose1978]

Another option is to go under the Document and Setting folder and
delete the profile that are no longer needed on the computer. CAUTION
DO NOT DELET THE ADMINISTRATOR PROFILE.

You may want to turn on the Guest account and have the student use the
guest account instead of creating their owne profile.