Windows 10: Deleting a User Profile...a number of questions

Discus and support Deleting a User Profile...a number of questions in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; I currently have my sons profile on my PC. He now has his own PC, using the same profile. I want to delete his profile from my PC but what happens to... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by RichardHewitt4, Dec 27, 2020.

  1. Deleting a User Profile...a number of questions


    I currently have my sons profile on my PC. He now has his own PC, using the same profile.


    I want to delete his profile from my PC but what happens to the programs he downloaded using his profile?


    If i delete the profile from my PC, that doesn't effect his profile on his new PC does it?


    I ask as some programs he downloaded and used, such as Discord, or games he downloaded from Steam, never showed up in my profile.


    Also if i deleted a program in his profile, does that get deleted from the whole pc or just his profile.

    :)
     
    RichardHewitt4, Dec 27, 2020
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  2. Catbill Win User

    How to Fully Delete User Profiles/Accounts

    Thank you so much. I deeply appreciate the time you took to write such a useful and thoughtful answer.

    I followed your suggestions and was able to delete the correct user account in settings. I had hesitated to delete this because of different names for the same account and associated profile – it wasn’t clear what went with what. That is, the “Test” profile
    is associated with an account called “Cat Cru” under Manage Accounts in the Control Panel and something called *** Email address is removed for privacy *** in Netplwiz. I had everything backed up and took a chance that I was deleting the correct account.

    Unfortunately neither "Test" nor its aliases appears in System Settings.

    So, I still need “permission from the Administrators” to delete it. Under Advanced Folder Properties, the owner is “Administrators (-HP)\Administrators.” Under permission entries, this owner has full control. I am signed in as “,” an administrative
    account.

    Question: What is “Administrators (-HP)\Administrators”? Is it the same as a user account or something else?

    Question: Another Principal listed under permission entries is “Account unknown” followed by a long string of numbers. Out of curiosity, what is this?

    Question: How do I give myself permission to delete the “Test” folder?

    Thanks again.
     
    Catbill, Dec 27, 2020
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  3. Delete user profile after x days GPO for Win10

    Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> System -> User Profiles

    • "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart"
    This GPO is supposed to delete any user profile older than x amount of days but fails to do so because my antivirus will run a scan on the profile and update the "last modified" property. Apparently there's a KB(983544) that fixes this issue in Windows
    7 but it's not compatible with Windows 10. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
     
    Harvard James III, Dec 27, 2020
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  4. GMC7700 Win User

    Deleting a User Profile...a number of questions

    Deleted User but Cannot Remove Profile Folder

    None of this works. Silly me for deleting the profile via control panel.

    So when I go to the systempropertiesadvanced, the profile is not listed.

    When I go to the registry keys, the profile is not listed there either.

    But the c::\users\ has the folders that I cannot delete.
     
    GMC7700, Dec 27, 2020
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