Windows 10: User login after boot

Running Win 10 Pro, 1909 level. This is a new PC and after getting all the kinks worked out, I'm left with one irritating thing. I have just one user ID on this system, and that's me, set up as the administrator. When I boot the system, in the lower left corner of the screen, there are two possible user IDs to select. They are both me - the info displayed is identical. If I try to log on using the ID presented in the middle of the screen, it rejects the log on because the password is not correct. If I then select the first user ID in the left corner of the screen and enter the same password that failed with the other ID, the log on completes just fine. I'd really like the second "phantom" ID to go away. Any ideas as to why that second ID occurrence is there, and can I delete it somehow? Thanks.

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Windows users at login

I cannot see all of my user accounts on the login screen on a new Windows 10 laptop. I have an account for my son and it does not appear as a user on the login screen. It is listed if I display the users with the CMD prompt. The only account I see is my
account which is an admin. His account is a user. All the suggestions I've seen are not available on home edition.

 

Cannot Login with New User Account in Windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue

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  What exactly happens when you try to login with new user account?
  
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  Are you getting any error message?
  
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  Since when are you facing this issue?
  

I suggest you to Enable
the built in Administrator account in Windows 10, and then try to create new user account and check if it helps.

I suggest you to refer the steps below and check if it helps

• 
  Press Windows+ X, select
  Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
  
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  When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
  
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  At the command prompt, type net user administrator /active: yes, and then press Enter.
  
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  Type net user administrator
  <Password>, and then press Enter.
  
  Note In this command, <Password> represents the actual password that you want to set for the administrator account.
  
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  Type exit, and then press Enter.
  
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  Log off the current user account. And login and check whether your able to login to windows or not.
  

Hope this information is helpful. Please write back to us if you need any further assistance, we'll be glad to assist you.

 

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.