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For many Windows users, Microsoft’s increasing insistence on online accounts has felt like a creeping intrusion, especially with the latest iterations of Windows 10 and Windows 11 Home editions. What once was a straightforward setup with a local user has now become, for most people, an...

If you've ever found yourself tangled in the web of a Microsoft account on your Windows 11 machine, you're not alone. Maybe it seemed like a good idea during setup, but now you’re second-guessing the decision. Or perhaps you’ve got a work or school login that's overstayed its welcome. Whatever...

I have a laptop which has only 1 user account - I can't remember the password to log on and after doing all windows 10 options to recover password and gain access it hasn't worked. I want to remove that user account and be able to log on to the laptop without having to reinstall windows fully as...

I added work account on my home PC so I can check my email and whatnot and now that I'm not with that company anymore it seems impossible to remove that account. I get a warning every time I log into windows that work account is not good, but there's no "Remove" button when I go there. I found...

I have an account saved on win 10 but I want to change another account and delete it, then I can not delete it please help me! Thanks As shown above I can not find the delete button

It appears I have two Windows 10 log on accounts. However, I don't know the password for one of them. When I restart the computer the log on for the account that I don't have the password for is the default. I have to switch to the other account to log in. Apparently the Accounts window in...

Hi Sir, I did not know that skype application login ,ll be automatically my PC password ,i need to remove that account from my windows 10 PC ,I am not able to use my use PC.please tell me how to remove skype user from PC lock. Thanks & Regards Atul Tiwari

I just installed Windows 10. During installation, I created a sign in password at the login screen. Within 30 minutes of using Windows 10, I went into the Windows Store App and tried to download the Free version of Photoshop Express. To do this, I had to sign into one of my Microsoft...

Hi, An "ADMINISTRATOR Local account" appeared out of nowhere, is it possible to delete it and is the guest one necessary? ...thnx .....nick Link Removed

I have 3 email accounts on my Windows 8.1 machine as setup in the mail app. One of them, my gmail account, is old and no longer used. In fact, I can't log in to it. Going to the right, and 'settings', then 'accounts' lists the email accounts I have. Clicking on one of the 'good' accounts...

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...

As I noted in an earlier post, this computer was a used gift from my son. Now I would like to take him off the computer (as main user) and place myself in that position. In the image below, he is listed as "Shawn" and I would like to place myself in this position. Admin, etc., removing him from...

i run cmd in Elevated Command Prompt mode. i used commands such as; net user administrator * (but can not change password, the system error 5 has occured) net user administrator /delete (access is denied) net user administrator set /inactive net user administrator /inactive:yes but all these...

Here is what happened. I went to administrator tools > Computer management > Local users and groups > Users. Now I double clicked on the main user account. Then I switched to the 'member of' tab. I deleted the things whatever present over there. Then I restarted the system. Now I can...

Hello all, Did some searching, no luck, so I hope someone here can help please. I got a computer from someone with Windows 7 on it, and they had already created their account. I was tired of their initials being on everything and changed the name of the account. That was a surface fix and...

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Someone worked on my computer (a pro) and established a new User Account. I would like to delete the Old Account which is what he named it. When I click on the new account, there is no option to delete the other one. Would appreciate any feedback any of might come up with. Thanks.

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I have 2 user accounts, one is (standard user) the other is (administrator) I would like to delete one of them probably (standard user) but how do I retain all the files associated with it? Thanks, Bob

I do not know how I got a second admin account with my name probably i was doing something in a windows program and their i gave admin rights to my first account, now i cannot delete this new account i searched how to geek and according to that the delete account is not where it should be it...