The first issue to be faced here, is: do profiles really need to be
deleted?  On one hand, if you have 1000 different kids using a computer,
as I sometimes do, then you could run out of disk space if the default
profile is too big, 'cause it gets replicated to all user profiles.  On
the other hand, if you do delete them, the next time a user who's profile
has been deleted logs in, it needs to be recreated, which takes longer. 
If they then fire up an Office 2003 product, it gives them a message
saying it's installing, and sits there a minute or two, which is also
annoying.  

What I've done is tried to set up machines initially so the default user
profile is as small as possible, so I don't run out of disk space
mid-year, and then only delete them when I'm doing pm, like during the
summer.  To do that, I just delete all the folders under documents and
settings except the administrator and all users folders.  Sometimes,
though, I just build a completely new install and ghost it to all the
machines in a batch, that way I'm installing the latest of everything, and
it's all as clean as possible.



School Information Technology Discussion <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>I've chatted to a few of you already about this, and it seems that it is
>a common enough scenario to bring up on this list.   How do you handle
>deleting profiles on computers where many different users log in each
>day? (Assuming you are using Microsoft products -- sigh!) 
>
>I've heard reference to  registry key that will clear profiles on log off
>or log on?
>We are doing some research right now, but would love to hear from those
>of you who have already found a strategy that REALLY works in education
>setting.
> 
>Lucie deLaBruere
>