Hi, I was about to begin a USMT scanstate.exe on an XP machine. But before I did, as I usually do to save time save time, I ran the following in a script (so I didn't fat-finger it, this is a copy-paste): delprof.exe /I /P /D:90 Without paying much attention, I kept hitting y, enter but then I released that it had started deleting the primary user profile!! I think I managed to cancel out before it deleted any user data except the registry key (I ran an undelete utility on it) but seriously, wtf? The user logged in at least 3 days ago, I have a record of her logging in on the 28th of July (today is the first of Aug). Delprof.exe skipped a couple of profiles that were also logged into recently (today) but not that one. Anyone ran into this before/have any ideas? -NOC

Hi, The delprof.exe utility will delete all local profiles. It will however prompt but i guess as you kept on pressing Y for yes, then its most likely you missed when it prompted for admin account. There is a VB script you can set up to ignore certain users from your delprof.exe session Const LocalDocumentsFolder = "C:\Documents and Settings\" set objFSO = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(localdocumentsfolder) on error resume next for each fldr in objFolder.SubFolders if not isexception(fldr.name) then objFSO.DeleteFolder fldr.path, True end if next Function isException(byval foldername) select case foldername case "All Users" isException = True case "Default User" isException = True case "LocalService" isException = True case "NetworkService" isException = True case "Administrator" isException = True case Else isException = False End Select End Function Hope this helps! MartinIf you find my information useful, please rate it. :-)

Thanks for your reply, but it actually left the local "Administrator" profile alone (I was logged in with it), and the profile in question wasn't a local profile, it was a domain profile. Furthermore, the switch " /D:90 " should have ignored the profile in question, as the user logged into it 3 days ago, which is certainly not older than 90 days. I could use your vb-script, or easily specify a specific user profile as an exception, but that will not work on multi-user PCs where i don't know all the users i need to backup, and that is primarily what I am using delprof for. I think this is the first time I've seen it incorrectly determine the profile's last modification date and wanted to delete it. So, unfortunately, despite your appreciated efforts, I am still left without an answer or workaround. -NOC

Hi, According to the problem description, you have problem on a Windows XP machine. Since this forum is used to discuss the Windows Server related issue, you’d better submit a new question to Windows XP forum which is the best resource for you. Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itproxpsp/threads Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Sorry about that. I thought I was in XP foums. -Thanks-NOC