Deleting Profiles

[itguy31]

Ok guys I am fairly new to AutoIT so dont laugh. What I am trying to do is write a script that will look in c:\users and remove all folders except for the public and admin folders AS WELL AS look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Profilelist and delete all registry entries for those folders but leave certain ones. I assume this is probably a complex script. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Rick

[water]

Doesn't sound too complex.

To delete directories use functions FileFindFirstFile, FileFindNextFile, FileGetAttrib and FileDelete

To delete registry entries use RegDelete.

[hannes08]

Hey Rick,

if you are familiar with handling arrays I'd prefer using _FileReadToArray over FileFindXXX Functions.

As water said, you can delete registry items with RegDelete, but how do you list all Keys under a special key?

That's an interesting question.

Edit:

Well, I guess you could use "regedit /e" to export a list of keys...

Edited March 16, 2011 by Hannes123

[itguy31]

In Regedit, all the local profiles dont have a GUID attribute. When the computer builds the profile from the domain it is given a GUID attribute in which I could narrow the search to i believe. Anything in Profile List with a GUID attribute could be deleted with the exception of tasks because that is our antivirus. I will tinker around and see what I can start with. Thanks for the input. Please keep it coming.

Rick