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Posted: **06 Oct 2010 10:19**

I am writing a script that will remove all of the user accounts on a computer. Currently the code is:
rmdir /s /q "\\%computername%\c$\Documents and Settings\"

This removes all folders (user windows profiles) under the documents and settings folder. The problem is this also removes the "All Users" folder and the "Default User" folders as well. I need a way to remove all other folders than these two folders. The user ID's for each computer will vary so it wont be as simple as just deleting specific folders.

Any thoughts?

Posted: **06 Oct 2010 15:16**

You could try this

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@echo off &setlocal
pushd "\\%computername%\c$\Documents and Settings\" ||goto :eof
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /ad /b ^| findstr /b /i /v /c:"all users" ^| findstr /b /i /v /c:"default user"') do (
  ECHO rmdir /s /q "%%a"
)
popd
pause

If you think it would work, then remove the ECHO command to do the job.

Regards
aGerman

Posted: **06 Oct 2010 17:53**

aGerman wrote:'dir /ad /b ^| findstr /b /i /v /c:"all users" ^| findstr /b /i /v /c:"default user"'

this block may be shorter, and hidden folders (LocalService, NetworkService) must be exclude:

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'dir /ad-h/b^| findstr /xivc:"all users" /c:"default user"'

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