Windows xp remotely manage user profiles

I found an old VBScript that reads the registry, but it looks like it will be a lot of work to adapt it and to make it work. Hello JB,. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here.

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Therefore I feel compelled to go into the office to work at least every couple of months, just to hang out with my friends if for no other reason. The ReadRegistryGetProfiles. On Error Resume Next. Echo strValue Next. To read from the registry using Windows PowerShell, you can use the registry provider, which will work on Windows PowerShell 2. The registry provider makes working with the registry as easy as working with FileSystem.

In fact, you use the same kinds of commands and in the same kinds of ways. In the GetProfilesFromRegistry. This is seen here:. The Get-ChildItem cmdlet is used to obtain a list of all the registry keys under the ProfileList location. Using the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, you specify the path in the same way you would the path to a folder. This command is shown here, along with the output:. Therefore, there are several caveats to keep in mind when using the Temp folder location programmatically:.

The user's tile is not guaranteed to be present. If the user deletes the. User tiles for other users on the computer might not be present in the currently logged-on user's Temp folder. Because the directory structure is not created for User B until he or she logs on, User A's Temp folder is the only location that User B's tile is stored. Other users' tiles are not guaranteed to be up-to-date in their Temp folders. Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, Here are 3 ways that you can do.

The tool out of the box Normally, if I want to clean up old user profiles on a local system, I will just use the native tool. Then select the user profile that needs to be cleaned and click Delete. Group Policy There is also a Group Policy setting that can automate this process. In Group policy editor, can we have exceptions. Like Default and Public.