Windows 10: I have a ghost

Hello,

I have a problem that MS can't seem to help. When I boot up my machine it give me 3 login choices.

1)My Name
L: myname@email.com

2)Admin

3)My Name

I only have one active account on this machine aside from the admin. I can login into option #1 and #2 but not 3. Also only options 1 and 2 show in user accounts.

My question is where is the 3rd sign in user name hiding in my system and how do I remove it?

:)

 

I have a second "ghost" desktop in Windows 10. I do not know where or when it appeared and cannot get rid of it. How do I get rid of it?

In case it helps anyone else, a restart removed the ghost toolbar.

I don't know why it was there in the first place, still.

 

I have a second "ghost" desktop in Windows 10. I do not know where or when it appeared and cannot get rid of it. How do I get rid of it?

I have got the same behaviour. I also have no error, but I have a second "ghost" (that's the word I came up with in order to search for it as well) toolbar which appears behind the active toolbar.

What I would add is that it looks like the toolbar might have looked a few days ago, with a different set of windows opened (I have several pinned applications).

The "ghost" toolbar only appears on a second monitor; my primary display just has the one toolbar I would expect to see.

I have hibernated the system twice since last rebooting, and I use a different primary display when I'm in the office. I wonder if this is a factor as the primary displays are different sizes, although the second screen where the ghosting occurs is always
the same screen as that is the laptop's display.

I have tried unlocking the toolbars so I could move the active one out of the way, and sure enough the ghost toolbar is still there and the tasks which are still active are even clickable. Tasks which have been closed still appear but clicking the button
does nothing.

In the image below, the vertical taskbar on the right is my current active taskbar (which I have just dragged out of the way) and the horizontal taskbar at the bottom of the screen is the "ghost" one which should not be there.

I will try to solve this myself and will post it here if I get anywhere, but I would like to know if anyone already has the answer to this.

Dan

 

Hello code, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Please go ahead and use the tutorial below to get all account details, and post back with this information. I'll be happy to take a look at it to see if it may show a cause. It will not show any personal information.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

Think I have it fixed. Thanks, if something changes I'll take a look.

 

Great news. What turned out to be the cause?

 

Actually I haven't solved it yet I just weird-ed out about posting my name which shows up ....

 

In a nutshell it shows the four standard account.

Admin,
guest,
user and
me

for some reason I'm showing twice.

 

If you like, blank out your name from it before posting. Double check to see if the names are identical, or if there's any difference.