User Profile Cleaning Script for Windows 7 – Version 3.1

If you wind up using this script, please leave a comment letting me know how it worked out for you!

Here is a batch file for cleaning user profiles in Windows 7. This was much easier in XP, but in Windows 7, you need to also clear out the registry values or you will get a Profile error on the next login by the cleared user. I couldn’t find any good ones online that met my needs perfectly, so I made my own.

One of the biggest criteria that I had was that I wanted to specify users for the script to leave alone. It seemed like anyone that made a script for profile deletion wiped the ground clean and I wanted to be able to retain users of my choosing. This is especially helpful in lab or library situations, to set this script as a logoff hook. There are two places that you would need to enter accounts to exclude from the wipe – one in the directory clean and one in the registry clean, just look for the commented areas below. Enjoy!

Change History:
Version 2.2 – Added server-reporting error verification
Version 3.0 – Nearly complete rewrite to account for appended (.001, .002, etc) profiles as well as providing cleaner code
Version 3.1 (Current) – Altered to work with user accounts that contain a space between two words.

@ECHO OFF

:: --------------------------------------
::
:: Windows 7 User Profile Cleaning Script
:: Version 3.1
::
:: Written by Mike Stone
:: mikestone@gmail.com
:: https://mstoneblog.wordpress.com
::
:: --------------------------------------
::
:: Welcome!  This script is designed to automate the process of flushing
:: user profiles within Windows 7, while at the same time preserving
:: profiles of your choosing, including domain users.
::
:: This script is written as an example of wanting all domain users wiped
:: except for the one called "pctest".
::
:: Portions of the script that will require manual edits will be preceded
:: by instructions with these "double colon" comment marks.
::
:: Please let me know how well (or not well) this works for you or any
:: features you can think of that could be added.
::
:: --------------------------------------

title Windows 7 User Profile Cleaning

:: ----------
:: Add any users you wish to exclude from the wipe to the "userpreserve"
:: line below and separate them by commas.  Be careful - these are
:: case-sensitive.
:: ----------

:USERPRESERVE
set userpreserve="Administrator,All Users,UpdatusUser,Default,Default User,Public,pctest"

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a IN ('reg query "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist"^|find /i "s-1-5-21"') DO CALL :REGCHECK "%%a"
GOTO VERIFY

:REGCHECK
set SPACECHECK=
FOR /f "tokens=3,4" %%b in ('reg query %1 /v ProfileImagePath') DO SET USERREGPATH=%%b %%c
FOR /f "tokens=2" %%d in ('echo %USERREGPATH%') DO SET SPACECHECK=%%d
IF ["%SPACECHECK%"]==[""] GOTO REGCHECK2
GOTO USERCHECK

:REGCHECK2
FOR /f "tokens=3" %%g in ('reg query %1 /v ProfileImagePath') DO SET USERREGPATH=%%g
GOTO USERCHECK

:USERCHECK
FOR /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%e in ('echo %USERREGPATH%') DO SET USERREG=%%e
FOR /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%f IN ('echo %USERREG%') DO SET USERREGPARSE=%%f
ECHO %USERPRESERVE%|find /I "%USERREGPARSE%" > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL=1 GOTO CLEAN
IF ERRORLEVEL=0 GOTO SKIP

:SKIP
ECHO Skipping user clean for %USERREG%
GOTO :EOF

:CLEAN
ECHO Cleaning user profile for %USERREG%
rmdir "C:\Users\%USERREG%" /s /q > NUL
ECHO Cleaning user registry for %USERREG%
reg delete %1 /f
IF EXIST "C:\Users\%USERREG%" GOTO RETRYCLEAN1
GOTO :EOF

:RETRYCLEAN1
ECHO Retrying clean of user profile %USERREG%
rmdir "C:\Users\%USERREG%" /s /q > NUL
IF EXIST "C:\Users\%USERREG%" GOTO RETRYCLEAN2
GOTO :EOF

:RETRYCLEAN2
ECHO Retrying clean of user profile %USERREG%
rmdir "C:\Users\%USERREG%" /s /q > NUL
GOTO :EOF

:VERIFY
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%g IN ('reg query "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\profilelist"^|find /i "s-1-5-21"') DO CALL :REGCHECKV "%%g"
GOTO REPORT

:REGCHECKV
set SPACECHECKV=
FOR /f "tokens=3,4" %%h in ('reg query %1 /v ProfileImagePath') DO SET USERREGPATHV=%%h %%i
FOR /f "tokens=2" %%j in ('echo %USERREGPATHV%') DO SET SPACECHECKV=%%j
IF ["%SPACECHECKV%"]==[""] GOTO REGCHECKV2
GOTO USERCHECKV

:REGCHECKV2
FOR /f "tokens=3" %%k in ('reg query %1 /v ProfileImagePath') DO SET USERREGPATHV=%%k
GOTO USERCHECKV

:USERCHECKV
FOR /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%l in ('echo %USERREGPATHV%') DO SET USERREGV=%%l
FOR /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%m IN ('echo %USERREGV%') DO SET USERREGPARSEV=%%m
ECHO %USERPRESERVE%|find /I "%USERREGPARSEV%" > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL=1 GOTO VERIFYERROR
IF ERRORLEVEL=0 GOTO :EOF

:VERIFYERROR
SET USERERROR=YES
GOTO :EOF

:REPORT
IF [%USERERROR%]==[YES] (
		set RESULT=FAILURE
)		ELSE (
		set RESULT=SUCCESS
)

:: ----------
:: This is fairly optional - it's just something I added so
:: that I could keep an eye on the labs remotely to make
:: sure there weren't masses of critical errors with the
:: script failing.
::
:: If you don't want it, just comment-out or remove the
:: "net use" line.
::
:: If you do want it, then make the necessary modifications
:: to the net use to map an appropriate sharepoint.
:: ----------

net use t: \\server\share

IF EXIST "t:\labreport.txt" (
	GOTO REPORTGEN
) ELSE (
	GOTO EXIT
)

:REPORTGEN
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%n in ('echo %date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2% %time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%') DO SET TDATETIME=%%n
FOR /F "tokens=14" %%o in ('ipconfig^|find "IPv4 Address"') DO SET IPNUMBER=%%o
ECHO. %RESULT%	%COMPUTERNAME%	%IPNUMBER%	%TDATETIME%>>"t:\labreport.txt"
net use t: /delete
GOTO EXIT

:EXIT
exit

:EOF