DefaultUser0 Profile

Question

I am working on some schedule task to run PowerShell script to monitor and Kill the Process (WWAHost.exe) and modify some registry values under HKLM "At Log on" for any user.

We are injecting/creating this task scheduler while Building new machine with window 10 using SCCM task sequence.

after we implement this task , we are seeing extra user profile like Defaultuser0.<PCName>.
example Defaultuser0.PC12345.

dir \pc12345\c$\users
Directory of \pc12345\c$\users
10/25/2021 03:10 PM <DIR> .
10/25/2021 03:10 PM <DIR> ..
10/22/2021 08:22 PM <DIR> ADMINI~1
10/22/2021 09:24 PM <DIR> defaultuser0
10/22/2021 09:25 PM <DIR> defaultuser0.PC12345
11/19/2020 09:44 AM <DIR> Public
0 File(s) 0 bytes

any idea ? appreciate if you can help me to understand why this extra profile creating ?

Answer 1

Hello @Madhu Sunke ,

Defaultuser0 is a system user profile used when Windows is setting up during OOBE, before any user accounts have been created. It should and usually does disappear after the first reboot after installation. If the profile folder remains in Users folder, it’s safe to manually delete it.

Normally this user is deleted in the next reboot after the imaging.

Hope this helps with your query,

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