Re: "ntuser.dat in use" after complete shutdown?

From: "daat99" <daat99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| [b]A bit of a background:[/b]
| At our system all windows xp machines store the users profiles in partition D.
|
| In order to maintain a "clean" environment we used to have a batch file that
| formated drive D and than copied back a backup of the default/all/admin user
| profiles into drive d again.
|
| We tried to shrink this long process by creating a batch file that will
| delete all the directories inside the "Documents and Settings" directory in
| drive D with the exception of the default/all/admin directories.
|
| We used the following command to delete all the folders that match our
| criteria (inside a for loop and if conditions where %%i is the directory we
| want to delete):
| rd "%%i" /q /s
|
| [b]The problem:[/b]
| After a while we started to notice that the batch file is having problems
| deleting some of the directories and that it complains about "NTUSER.DAT is
| being used".
|
| We followed the following procedure when running the batch file:
| 1. Complete shut down (turn off)
| 2. Wait until the fans stop spinning.
| 3. Turning on the computer.
| 4. Logging in with a predefined user that have the appropriate access rights.
| 5. Running the batch file.
|
| [b]The question:[/b]
| Is there any way to make the batch file delete ALL the folders including the
| so called used "ntuser.dat" files without having to force a format on the
| drive again?
|
| P.S.
| We were told that the problem is that some programs leave the registry open
| for the users that used it but isn't a complete shut down of the system
| supposed to solve that?
| We're trying to accomplish this without installing further packages/programs.
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| daat99

NTUser.dat is the User Registry.

When you Logon the User Registry is loaded. Presumably, the User Registry of the account
being used is the one causing the error.

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Dave
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