Windows 10: Need to delete unknown "Other Users" storage

I'm having some unknown 'other users' storage taking up space, and have tried following any and all Microsoft articles I could find with no luck. Please note as well that there is only one user account so I am not sure what files "other users" could be.

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Unknown User Account created after upgrading to windows 10. It comes back if I delete it.

Original Title: Unknown User Account

Hello,

Since I upgraded to Windows 10 I am seeing an account that I did NOT create. So I deleted it by going into Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > User Accounts > Manage Accounts then I click on the unknown user account and delete it. That said.... It
comes back. I have also followed the below suggestions from other posts and still does not seem to work.

Let’s try simple steps and check if the user account is detecting and try removing it.

• 
  Press Windows key + R, type netplwiz and press Enter.
  
• 
  Check if the user account is appearing on the list.
  
  
• Click on user account and click on Remove. (If user account appear on the list).

Please advise.

Thank you

 

Unknown user

<Okänd kontakt> is just Swedish for <Unknown contact>

When an unknown account is listed in permissions it's usually due to the file or folder having had permissions for a user account on this PC that has since been deleted. Or, if the drive is an external drive that is used by several machines, an account that exists on another PC.

Either way, as the unknown user doesn't exist on this PC then having it listed in permissions doesn't grant access to any account that actually exists.

 

Unknown user account appeared after upgrade from Win 8.1 to 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand the inconvenience you are facing currently.

I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• Since when are you facing this issue?
• Did you make any changes in prior to this issue?

If it is an unknown account, I suggest you to follow the below step and check if that helps.

You can only delete an account, provided your account has administrator privileges.

Let us try the following steps and check if it helps.

• Press the Windows key or click on Windows icon.
• Click on Settings.
• Click on Account.
• Now click on Family and other users.
• Click on the user account you are willing to remove.
• Click on Delete account and data for confirmation.

Note: If you will delete the account and its data then you will be unable to use and get back those once deleted from there.

Hope the information helps. Please let us know if the issue persist and we will be happy to assist you further.