Windows 10: defaultuser100000... folder

Every time I login, it seems, I get another folder. I deleted them once, but then got an error saying that my profile was corrupt and I had to reinstall Windows again. Is there a way to get this random folder generation to stop? I am on a small custom built computer for my job and I have just enough storage for my web browsers and work needs, something like 60gb. If this keeps happening, I will have to put a bigger hard drive in and I don't want to do that. As you can see, this is happening every log in just about.



Everything I've read thus far says these are leftovers from installing windows. If that is true, then why is it every day I get another folder or two?

:)

 

DefaultUser100000 folder

Hi, I am Van. I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you. I'll be glad to help you today.

Kindly refer to the link below for more details about the issue.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-...

Please scroll down and check out Soarin explanation.

The defaultuser100000 folder is created when you click "I forgot my password" or "I forgot my PIN" in the lock screen. It creates a temporary user to let you access password recovery options.

If you do it multiple times (sometimes I click that option by accident instead of "sign-in options"), it creates additional folders like defaultuser100000.YourComputerName, defaultuser100000.YourComputerName.000, and defaultuser100000.YourComputerName.000.001.

It can also by some other factor, Like windows update, or a minor bug.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

You can manually delete it or it may be removed over time by the system. Before deleting it just make sure you have a back up in case something went wrong for assurance.

I hope you find this useful. Do not hesitate to get back to us if you need further assistance. I am more than happy to help

Best regards,

Van

 

DefaultUser100000 folder

I recently accidentally pressed: forgot pincode

On my login startup screen and now i see a folder called: DefaultUser100000

in my user oflder on my C drive.

I was wondering how and what.

So i logged out and pressed the button for forgot pincode again, because that's the only think i could think of, caused the folder to spawn.

After that and logging back into my account, i saw a new folder together with the DefaultUser100000, called: DefaultUser100001.PC

Which basically answered my question of, what caused them to spawn.

My question here now is; can i safely delete those 2 folders from my C drive?

Or do i need to go through a whole process of using the windows command thingy?

I should also add, that both folders say that they have 0 items in them and are empty.

And i only use my main account to login.

Which never showed nor created such a folder aside of just called a folder named: User

Thanks in advance. ^^

 

TEMP.${SYSTEM_NAME}.XXX and defaultuser100000 under C:\Users

That is not a proper option for me. I need my PC running and using a third party repairing tool could make everything worse. I ended up by only having the defaultuser100000 folder under C:\Users which is not listed as user account in netplwiz but is present
in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ under the registry editor. The TEMP-folders seem to be gone.