DelLocalWinUser

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In Brief

Clean up local Windows user accounts (profile directory and SAM) from the command line.

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Updated:	17 Nov 2005
File Size:	567KB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/del_local_win_user.zip
Publisher:	Bryan Keadle

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Details

Similar to this Windows user accounts cleanup tool: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14441.html

This utility, DelLocalWinUser.exe (Delete Local Windows User) is a manual utility that enables you to clean up local Windows user accounts (profile directory and SAM) from the command line.

A common and unique feature of this utility is the ability to delete all local account that haven't been used for a number of days.

DelLocalWinUser * 30

This is handy for keeping shared-use computers from getting clogged with old, unused accounts.

SYNTAX: DELLOCALWINUSER (username / *) (Days_old) (QUIET)

    Username - Name of local account to delete

    * - if wildcard specified, delete all local accounts
        according to number of days old specified as a 
        second parameter, excluding accounts listed in
        an exlude list file, DELLOCALWINUSER.EXCLUDE,
        and the following hard-coded accounts:

            Administrator
            *STDLoad
            DEFAULT USER
            standalone
            *NT AUTHORITY
            __VMWARE_USER__
            ASPNET

10/17/05 Update: AUTHOR NOTE UPDATE
This update addresses the issue with bombing out on names with apostrophes.
One could run this as a service using the SRVANY tool from Microsoft.
This would need to be run as an Administrator-level account. Could use the RUNAS.EXE utility to launch DelLocalWinUser as an Admin-level account.

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Reader Comments

• very useful! haven't tried the time limit yet, but the basic functionality works like a charm!
• Is there a way to run this as a windows service?
• Excellent utility!! Will lock out all other accounts locally until user logs onto network from workstation.
• Works well when run from an administrator login. Despite a fair amount of experimentation, I cannot run properly from an ordinary user login. It does not cope with account names such as O'BRIEN containing an apostrophe and rather than continuing to delete , bonbs out the whole process with an error message.
• Cool!