This is a piece of information that every Administrator should know, because there are many cases when you will receive the error: “you have been logged on with a temporary profile” and you prefer not to reinstall that machine…

“How can I delete a user profile on a Windows 7 Computer, that is already part of a domain?”

A. Simple solution (if it doesn’t work, go to B)

1. Log in with an account that has administrator privileges
2. Go to Start / Right click on My Computer / Properties

3. Click on Advanced system settings

4. Click on Settings (under User Profiles):

5. Select the profile you would like to remove and press Delete and OK:
*If the profile is not here go to step B!

B. Not-so-simple solution (if A doesn’t work straight away, or the profile is not in the list)

In this case you need to remove the profile from Regedit. In order to do that:

1. Go to Start / type Regedit / open it

   

   2. Browse to the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

   3. In this folder you will see keys that start with S-1-5-21… 
   4. If you click on them, in the right panel you will see the profile name

   
   
   5. Pick the one that is concerning your desired username, and delete the whole folder S-1-5..
   6. Also delete the physical Folder under:

   C:\Users\%username%

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   At this time you will be able to login with the desired domain account and you should not encounter the “Temporary profile” problem. 

   Enjoy & drop a line if you have issues.
   Aurel.