Windows 10: Logged in as Public user

I recently did a clean reinstall of Win10 and today after removing the local user credentials, leaving only the logged in user, I noticed my displayed desktop is for the Public user.In Windows explorer the Public user shows what I see on the display, and the Desktop icon correctly shows the default path to my user Desktop Documents, etc. also point to my User folders. It's as if I'm logged in as Public as well as User, except I logged in with credentials as the only user. So I looked in the registry, and the current user is the Public user. I restarted and logged in again with user nam

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c:\users\public\public documents\xxxxx

robocopy "c:\users\public\public documents\foldername"

robocopy "c:\users\public\documents\foldername"

In your report you left out some essential details, e.g.

• Does the folder c:\users\public\public documents exist?
• Is it a physical folder or a symbolic link?
• What is the error message generated by robocopy?

 

Installing Applications to Select User Accounts

Hi Lucas,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are trying to avoid the access of all the application in all users. We will help you try resolving this issue.

I suggest you to check while installing any software it gives an option to install on all users or any particular user only.

However this would be application specific to manufacturer.

You can try following the below steps also and check if it helps.

• When you install the software or an application, it makes a shortcut or copy to the public folder where all the users can access the application.
• Open C:\ Drive and select Users.
• Select Public, select the files which you don't want to be used by other users and delete the files or Cut and paste in Admin account folder.

Note: To perform this steps be logged into Admin user.

Keep us posted to help you better.

 

Current active users that are friends

The other reason I suggested this is that users can add characters to their username that are not alphanumeric (e.g. user*). This confuses things somewhat when looking at the list.