Hello everybody!
In this video, I’m going to show you how to remove a user account in a Windows operating
system.
In Windows, you can add several users into one system so that other people can access
one and the same PC.
If you have an account which you don’t need, you can just remove it, because an extra account
can take up a certain amount of your disk space, and removing an account will make more
free room for your data.
In today’s video, you’ll see how it’s done.
Removing a user account So, to remove a user account, open Windows
Settings by clicking on the Start button.
Then go to Accounts / Family & Other people.
Here, you will see the entire list of all users added to the current system.
Choose the account you want to delete and click on Remove.
You may need to enter the Administrator’s password.
If the Remove button is not shown or it’s inactive, sign in to your account as administrator
and repeat these steps again.
After that, you’ll see a notification saying that all data stored in the user account will
be deleted.
It means deleting all of this user’s data stored on the system drive C in the folder
with the name of the user account which you are going to remove, and this data includes
all desktop objects, documents, photos, downloads, videos and other files.
User data on other disks will not be removed.
If this user saved their files on another, non-system disk, the data will be preserved.
Only the files from this user’s libraries on the system drive C will be gone.
To confirm your choice, click on “Delete account and data.”
As soon as you do it, this information will never be restored.
Removing a user account with Control Panel One more way to remove an account involves
going to Control Panel.
Open it by clicking on the Search field and enter “Control Panel.”
Then go to User Accounts - to make changes to an account you should have administrator
rights.
In the window that opens, select “Manage another account.”
Choose the account you want to remove.
In the window “Change an account” you can choose various options (change name, password,
type or delete it).
Then click “Delete the account.”
The windows opens to ask you what you want to do with this user’s files: delete them,
or keep them in a separate folder on the desktop.
To remove all data click “Delete files.”
If you choose to keep files, a corresponding folder will appear on the desktop.
Removing an account with User Accounts Here’s another way to remove an account
and it also requires having administrator rights.
To use it, open the Run window by pressing Win+R key shortcut and enter “netplwiz.”
The User Accounts window will open.
Choose the one you want to remove and click on “Remove.”
After you confirm your choice, the user account will be deleted.
Removing an account with Computer Management Another method is by using Computer Management.
To open it, right-click on the Start menu or on This PC and choose Computer Management
or Manage.
Then go to “Local users and groups”, select “Users” and right-click on the account
you want to delete, choose “Delete” and then “Yes” to confirm your choice.
Removing an account with the registry Another way to remove an account is by using
the registry.
Wrong configuration of the registry can harm the operating system or even crash it, so
make a backup before modifying it.
You can watch one of our videos to see how to do it properly.
Find the link in the description.
To open the registry, launch the Run window by pressing the key shortcut Win+R and typing
“regedit” in the window that opens.
Then follow the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
where you can find user folders, and where you need to locate the folder of the user
whose account you are going to delete.
To do it, check every folder for the file ProfileImagePath
In this Value data line, you will see the path to the folder of the corresponding account.
When you find the one you need, right-click on it and select “Delete.”
Then follow the path C:\users and delete the corresponding folder
too, and then restart the computer.
Removing an account with the command prompt You can delete a user account with the command
prompt as well.
To do it, launch the Command Prompt as Administrator.
To begin with, let’s see what users are registered in the system, so type the command
net users No when you know the exact user name whose
account you want to remove, type the next command
net user "DEMO5" /delete - inside the quotation marks, give the exact name of the user account
to delete.
As a result, you’ll see a message saying the command was completed successfully, and
you can close the command prompt now.
Limitations There are certain limitations to removing
user accounts.
You can’t delete all the accounts.
If you want to create a new account and delete the old one, you should first create the new
one and then give it the administrator rights.
You won’t be able to delete the old one having administrator rights until you sign
in with the new account.
If you want to delete your current account but you don’t want or can’t add another
user, the best choice would be to just reinstall the operating system.
You can watch a detailed guide on reinstalling operating systems in one of our videos.
Find the link in the description.
Yet you should save all necessary files to another disk because reinstallation will erase
them.
That is all for now.
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