Windows 10: Confused by user accounts

Discus and support Confused by user accounts in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; I am having trouble with user accounts in Windows 10. I have three different logins, “dan”, “william” and “william lockie”. They come up randomly when... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by blockie, Feb 14, 2016.

  1. BLOCKIE
    blockie Win User

    Confused by user accounts


    I am having trouble with user accounts in Windows 10.
    I have three different logins, “dan”, “william” and “william lockie”. They come up randomly when I start or restart the computer.
    The PW for all of them is ********, the same.
    There are two users folders:
    1. C:\users\ william\ This path contains the files I use on a daily basis and I wish it to be the folder that I boot to regardless of the login.
    2. C:\users\william lockie\ ( email ) I think this is an MS account? How is this path used?
    3.There is NO folder for dan. As a matter of fact, a search of , both, the System drive and the registry returns NOTHING. As I remember, the computer lost power in the middle of adding “dan”.
    I go to control panel>users accounts and the only account listed is “william lockie”. Try to manage another account and am told that the only account is the one listed.

    Think the three accounts are “admin” accounts. I know that “william lockie” is.

    Bill

    :)
     
    blockie, Feb 14, 2016
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  2. BOWER7
    Bower7 Win User

    Confusion with User Accounts

    After installing Windows 10 on my pc, my son logged on with this Microsoft account from his pc. That gave him access, on my pc only, to all files on my pc.

    I then registered myself with a Microsoft account as I didn't previously have one and had my son invite me to his 'family' I was then able, using his login, to make me administrator and his standard.

    My problem/question is that when I now login to my pc I only see icons from his pc but if I switch users, still on my pc, to him, he can see all my icons and has access to all my pc.

    Sorry but I'm totally confused as to what to do here so any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
     
    Bower7, Feb 14, 2016
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  3. TECHGIG
    Techgig Win User
    Techgig, Feb 14, 2016
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  4. LMANEKE
    lmaneke Win User

    Confused by user accounts

    Try to recreate the Dan account, and then remove it. It should go away.
     
    lmaneke, Feb 14, 2016
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  5. BLOCKIE
    blockie Win User
    Did that and it's still there.
     
    blockie, Feb 14, 2016
    #5
  6. LMANEKE
    lmaneke Win User
    Do you have a restore point to go back to before all of this happened? Sounds like a registry issue
     
    lmaneke, Feb 14, 2016
    #6
  7. BLOCKIE
    blockie Win User
    NO! Can I search the registry and get all.?

    Bill
     
    blockie, Apr 5, 2018
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