Hi0 I think the right way to delete a profile would be Right click on My computer -> Properties -> Advanced System settings -> Advanced -> user profiles -> settings. Here you can select the required profile and then delete it.Janaki Hariharan

We have several user profiles that we would like to delete when setting up Windows 7 images so that old users do not have their folders stored on the new images. However, after manually deleting the folders under C:\Users and then locating their keys in the registry and deleting those, the users' folders return immediately after any of our computers that we try this on gets rebooted. Is there another step that we're missing? I've been searching around online and have been unable to locate any solutions. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi0 I think the right way to delete a profile would be Right click on My computer -> Properties -> Advanced System settings -> Advanced -> user profiles -> settings. Here you can select the required profile and then delete it.Janaki Hariharan

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that Properties menu. That will probably fix it. I will try it out and respond if there are further issues.

Okay, this method does work, but I think I've narrowed the issue down to Symantec. When Symantec runs a scheduled scan, it recreates the user's folder under C:\Users. I guess I'll have to find out how to turn off the scans without knowing each user's password. Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can do some more research for this.

Okay, this method does work, but I think I've narrowed the issue down to Symantec. When Symantec runs a scheduled scan, it recreates the user's folder under C:\Users. I guess I'll have to find out how to turn off the scans without knowing each user's password. Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can do some more research for this.