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Delete local windows profile with PowerShell

I am trying to write a script that will delete the local profile of a test account. I am using the following line to return the SID of any account that starts with "test-"

PowerShell: $UserSID = (Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile | Where {$_.LocalPath -like '*\test-*'}).SID

Once I had the SID I used wmic to do the deletion but, I am not sure how to translate that code into PowerShell.

WMIC:wmic /node:"localhost" path win32_UserProfile where Sid="%%b" Delete

Solution

  • I was thinking this would work, but I don't find a delete method on the Win32_UserProfile class

    $UserSID = (Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile | Where {$_.LocalPath -like '*\test-*'}).SID
(gwmi -class Win32_UserProfile -filter "SID='$UserSID'").Delete()