Cannot Delete a user account in windows 10

Hi Billie,

Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

As per the issue description you are unable to delete a user account in Windows 10 and when you are trying to do that you are getting an error message stating you don't have the rights.

If you are logged in as administrator then try to follow the steps provided below and see if it helps you to fix the issue.

• Press the Windows key or click on Windows icon.
• Click on Settings.
• Click on Account.
• Now click on Family and other users.
• Click on the user account you are willing to remove.
• Click on Delete account and data for confirmation.
  

Note: If you will delete the account and its data then you will be unable to use and get back those once deleted from there.

Hope the information provided is helpful. Do let us know if you have any queries related to Windows, we will be happy to assist you.

The account removed form accounts but the Users account folder is still there.

This is what I cannot delete no matter how I try even using the Command Prompt as Admin.

And by creating a new account the user does not have any of the basic apps not even the Store or MS Edge on there profile.

-- Nobody

8-16-2015

I had the same problem when using Windows 10 Settings, then Accounts, then Family & other users.

I watched a few videos on YouTube, they were using Windows 10,  and they showed using the method you would have used in previous versions of Windows, that is go into the Control Panel (not Windows 10 Settings) and select User Accounts and delete the User Account in question.  It also deletes the user accounts files.

So if the new Windows 10 method doesn't do what you want it to, try the older Windows methods.

Just installed W 10...had a similar "user account" problem:

My user account has no password access.  My wife is the "Master" user.  After installing W10, I can connect fine, configure everything, etc.  But when we "Change User"s to my wife's identity, a password box appears, and her previous password won't work.  I've tried the above ideas (from my user identity), but of course whenever I try to make any changes/deletions, it asks for her "master" password.

What to do?  I can't delete her account without her password, and no password she knows works.

P Marvin

hope this helps

http://www.howtogeek.com/222262/how-to-reset-your-forgotten-password-in-windows-10/

Just upgraded my wife's laptop to win 10 from win 7. In trying to access emails from the start bar I inadvertently signed up to a Windows account using my name and my own email.

Now my wife's Name as the programme administrator(in Win7 ) is gone and only my name and a request for my password comes up when the laptop is switched on.

I want, and need to get back to what happened just after I had loaded Win10, namely it switches on with no request for a name or a password!

This impasses situation came about when I was trying to load my 2003 Office programme which Microsoft said was "incompatible" with Win 10(hence my original clicking on the "email" App on the start button screen. However now that I have an unwanted logon to Windows Account, I find that I have been able to access my 2003 Word, Excel and Outlook programs........so much for Microsoft saying that OFFICE 2003 is incompatible!!!!.

My gut feeling is that if I delete this Microsoft Account I should be back to the original situation where my wife's name comes up at switch on and she remains as the "administrator" of the Win10 programme.

Can someone please advise with some measure of authority that this will work?

Lastly, I was quite happy with my first superficial look at Win 10 after it was loaded. There did not seem to be the same "locked" files that show up throughout Win7.

I cut my teeth on Win for Workgroups and then Xp which was simple to use (as a sole user), and could be added to with additional "protections for business use. 

Microsoft appears to have, since then, tried to be all things to everyone through one programme, but in doing so have created an unwieldy, overly complicated prog that is just a step too far!

As an engineer there has been an old saying around for decades........it is, if it aint broke, don't fix it!

Lastly, as a last question, if I wind back to Win 7, would I still qualify for a Win10 free upgrade, if this is the only way to go back to where I was just after loading Win10?

Very frustratingly,

George(Georigg).

• Press the Windows key or click on Windows icon. Good,
• Click on Settings. Good,
• Click on Account. Good.
• Now click on Family and other users. NOT GOOD! I GET 'We couldn't connect to Microsoft family now, so your family on this device might not be up to date"

• Click on the user account you are willing to remove.
• Click on Delete account and data for confirmation.

I have the same problem. This is a new HP computer 7 days old and I am still trying to get it all sorted !!!!!!!!!!

I have the same user account problem. Before I came here I had already gone into settings etc. to delete the account to start again......... The only options I get is change account type or block!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do I delete??????? No, my wife is not logged in!

from my previous post of 8-16-2015

I had the same problem when using Windows 10 Settings, then Accounts, then Family & other users.

I watched a few videos on YouTube, they were using Windows 10,  and they showed using the method you would have used in previous versions of Windows, that is go into the Control Panel (not Windows 10 Settings) and select User Accounts and delete the User Account in question.  It also deletes the user accounts files.

So if the new Windows 10 method doesn't do what you want it to, try the older Windows methods.