Windows 10: Want to sell my laptop and need to delete my admin account for obvious reasons

Hi,


I just bought a Lenovo Yoga 300 laptop with windows 10. However, it hasn't got the hard drive memory capacity I thought it did and I am going to sell it. Obviously, before I sell it I want to remove my admin account, which is linked to my microsoft account, as so much of my personal data is on there. I've been going round in circles trying to do this. I've checked on here and created a local account, which I can change to, but then once there can't see the admin (built-in) account to delete. So at the moment I have the local account and my personal admin / built-in account on the laptop.

What can I do? I can't sell the laptop without removing my account first. Ideally, I would like to leave the laptop completeley resetted to factory settings, (but still having windows 10 on it so the new user can then introduce their own account).


Many thanks.

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Selling Laptop - How To Remove My Account?


As the thread title suggests, I am in the process of selling my laptop and need to remove my account before sending it off to the new buyer.

I thought all I needed to set up a new admin account, log in to that and delete my account from there but the account set up (for the new admin account) keeps asking for an email address or phone number.

Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated

 

Remove account


I suggest you backup your personalized files first before removing the account.
To delete an account, follow these steps:

1. Press WIN + X keys and click Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu.
2. Type the following command and press Enter. Replace test with the name of your sister's account. Code:
   
   Code:

   net user test /del

 

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Source: The Inquirer