What the heck is "Other People" - using 105 GB storage on my C: drive

Hello Ron,

Acknowledging all the details that you have provided.

Other people section will be created once a new user profile is logged into your PC. All their files, programs, and apps installed on their profile will be there as well.  You can view Other People section by following this:

Press Windows + I > System > Storage > This PC (C:) > Scroll down to the bottom you'll see Other People.

If you can't view or manage files from there, you can access this from File Explorer. To do this:

Press Windows + E > This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > From here, all users who previously logged on to your device will show.

If you are the Administrator of the device you're using you'd be able to delete the user accounts and its file to lessen up the usage on your disk. To do this:

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.
2. Click/tap on Family & other people on the left side, click/tap on an account you want to delete on the right side, and click/tap on Remove.
3. Click/tap onDelete account and data to confirm.
4. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

Once done, the user profile/s would be deleted along with its files. You can check again the Other People section and see if it's still eating large space on your drive.

You may check this support article on how to:

Free up drive space in Windows 10

Do get back to us should you need anything else.

Best,

Anne

Anne-

Thanks for the response.

You can view Other People section by following this:

Press Windows + I > System > Storage > This PC (C:) > Scroll down to the bottom you'll see Other People.

OK, I have been there, done that -- and there is nothing there, save the 4 lines posted in my note above.  No actionable information and nothing to click on, nothing to do there.

If you can't view or manage files from there, you can access this from File Explorer. To do this:

Press Windows + E > This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > From here, all users who previously logged on to your device will show.

Anne - I have done this also, but I don't know what to look for -- however, based on you comment, under Users I see:

xxx              (my user ID)

xxxadmin   (my admin user ID)

Default

Default.migrated

Public

vivek

The 2 listed first are obviously my user IDs -- whereas, are you saying the 4 are also "user ID's."?

               And regarding the following:

If you are the Administrator of the device you're using you'd be able to delete the user accounts and its file to lessen up the usage on your disk. To do this:

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.
2. Click/tap on Family & other people on the left side

               I don't have a "Family & other people" link showing on my screen (unless it only appears if you are an administrator).

So I am so totally confused as to what this Other people is.

ron in round rock

BossDweeb, RucyikaGupta-

OK, I will do that -- sign on to the admin ID and see what is there.

To be honest with you, I am on vacation using my wife's laptop, which we are thinking about replacing -- and I wanted to get an idea of what size of a HD I need to be looking at, which is my interest in all of the folder sizes I am seeing when I look at the Storage under Windows 10.

And I am getting rather busy wrapping up my vacation -- so I won't be able to spend a lot, if any, more time on this at this time-- and will have to put my investigation off until I return home sometime next week.

But I will look into it further because I want to know what all of this storage is allocated to under the admin ID.  I/We never sign on under the admin ID.  I say never, but I think I did sign on a couple of years ago when  I was setting up this laptop (moving files from her old laptop to this laptop), but that is the only time I have ever used the admin ID that I can remember and I am quite sure my wife has never used the  admin ID.  We of course give Windows 10 the admin password when it need to, to make changes requiring admin authority, but never sign on with it -- so it will be an interesting and educational investigation for me -- to see why the ID is taking up 105 MB of storage.

So again, it will be a couple of weeks before I can get back to this, but I do appreciate the help and advice you have offered.  And if you want to throw some more comments my way -- I KNOW I want a SS Drive in the new laptop (have one in my desktop) and am trying to decide if I want to go with a system that has, FOR INSTANCE, a 256 GB SS Drive with a 1 TB HD, or go with the more expensive option and just blow a bunch of money on a 1 TB SS Drive.

ron in round rock

No more ideas here. This is the first I'd heard of Others. I've only ever used an admin account, so I only have User folders for

that account, Default and Public. I use Thunderbird and Hotmail for email, so I've never seen a folder in Users for email either.

*Off to search*.... There you go... Here's another possible culprit.

 -  It looks like you may not have disabled the Windows update setting that stores downloaded update data to facilitate

updating another machine in your network without having to download it again.

I have two machines, but I didn't like the idea, so it's been disabled forever.

If you don't want to use this function go to...

Settings > Updates and Security > Advanced Options > Choose how updates are installed > Delivery Optimisation .

Shut down  Allow downloads from other PC's

• I don't know disabling the option will automatically clear what's been cached already.

If not, it may after a reboot or Disk Cleanup ?

• If you have not run Windows Disk Cleanup recently doing so may be a good starting point.

If you know you won't be needing to roll back to a previous Win10 version, click on the Clean Up System Files option as well.

You can't be rid of Default or Public. Windows will only replace them if you delete them.

Is the 105GB 'extra' in the Default Migrated and vivek folders ?

If so, these two folders may be the folders/files that are being referenced as 'moved from' and Other People ( leftovers from a Win10 upgrade?)?

• So, assuming there are no other account names to be managed/deleted in Setting > Accounts, other than your two User accounts,

and you are logged on with your admin account, you should be able to just  delete  Default Migrated (Making sure there are no files you

want in that folder before deleting).

So who's vivek ...  Delete ?

Once deleted (maybe reboot after), the value in 'Other People' should be set at 0 . Assuming these two folders actually have data in them.

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