Windows 10: How to delete PC user account of a child?

Hello. The user account of a child in my family. The account isn't working right - Universal Apps would load - so I wanted to delete it and recreate it. Unfortunately, I cannot find an option to delete the account from the PC - only to "block" it, whatever that means. I read this tutorial: Child Account - Add or Remove from Your Family in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

But it describes how to remove a child account from a Microsoft account (which I don't want to do because I like the parental controls) - not how to remove a PC child account.

Is there a way to delete a user account on PC of a child - without removing from the parent's Microsoft account?

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how to delete a user account from Windows 10

Hi Dharshan,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

It is not recommended to delete the administrator account in Windows. If you want to delete the administrator account, you need to have at least one administrator account in Windows.
First lets try to create one new Local user account in Windows 10.

Refer the below link to create the new Local user account.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-my/windows-10/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10

After creating the local user account, follow the below steps to assign the local user account as admin.

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  Login to the computer using your Microsoft admin account.
  
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  Press Windows + I keys on the keyboard to open Settings menu.
  
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  Click on Accounts in settings window.
  
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  Click on family and other users.
  
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  Click on new user account you created under
  Add someone else to this PC.
  
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  Click change account type.
  
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  Change the user type to Admin from Standard.
  

Now login through the new user account you have created.

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  Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard, select the
  control panel.
  
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  Click on User accounts.
  
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  Click on Manage other account.
  
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  Enter the password for the administrator account if prompted.
  
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  Click on the account which you want to delete (Microsoft admin account).
  
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  Click on Delete the account.
  
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  Click on Delete the files.
  

Now the administrator account will be deleted (Microsoft admin account). You may try to login through Local user you have created.

Hope this information is helpful.

 

how to delete a user account from Windows 10

how can I delete my administrator Account from Windows 10 or to factory reset this computer with out deleting the windows 10 software on it.

 

You need to delete the child account first from your family settings on account.microsoft.com/family. When done you can delete the child account on your PC.

You can then re-create the child account.

 

Thanks. Just deleting the child accounts at account.microsoft.com might have some unexpected behavior with phones attached to the account.

What if the child PC account was made local? Could I remove it then?

 

Hi stocktiki! The child account is also a standard local account and you can remove it from Control Panel.
User Account - Delete in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Barryow:

You are genius! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

Went into the "old fashioned" Control Panel instead of the Settings menu, found the child account and deleted it. Recreated the account - and now everything works great.

Follow-up: Do you know of a way to delete old (and empty) user folders from old accounts - including the one I just deleted. Even when I'm signed in as an Adminstrator, I get a permissions error.

Thanks!

 

Take ownership of the folders, then you can delete them:
Take ownership of files and get full access in Windows 10

 

You need to take ownership of your old user profile directory before deleting it. You can use the free softwares TakeOwnershipPro or TakeOwnershipEx suggested by NavyLCDR.

 

Might as well just add "Take Ownership" to the standard file explorer context (right click) menu instead of using third party software:
Take Ownership - Add to Context Menu in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Just wanted to say my thanks to Barrow. (post #4) I also had a corrupted child account that needed deleting on my tablet. I did many searches before finding this thread that contained the information on how to delete a child account on windows 10. Awesome!