How to remove an account from W10

Andrea Vironda 816 Reputation points
2021-03-17T20:50:04.11+00:00

Hi,
In my W10 home 10.0.19041 I have a problem: in the picture you can see 2 accounts are listed. I'd like to remove the one at the bottom.
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Since i forgot the password and I also don't remember why I configured it, I don't have the way to access it.
How can I deal with it?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-28T20:13:35.603+00:00

    Another option is from an elevated cmd.exe session
    net user and press Enter to view user accounts on your computer
    then
    net user username /delete
    where "username" is the problematic account

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T20:55:37.347+00:00

    You can follow along here.
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-or-remove-accounts-on-your-pc-104dc19f-6430-4b49-6a2b-e4dbd1dcdf32

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  2. Teemo Tang 11,496 Reputation points
    2021-03-18T02:21:58.313+00:00

    The simplest method for removing is using Computer Management, you could have a try:

    1. right-click start menu button and select Computer Management
    2. navigate to Local users and Groups-> Users, account to the name find the user which you want to remove
    3. right-click the user and select Delete
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    That’s all, restart computer and you will see the unnecessary user has disappeared.

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