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Delete Account Pictures in Windows 8

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Hi, you're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to remove a user account picture on a Windows 8 computer.

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We can access the user accounts and manage the pictures there by first hovering the mouse to the right of the screen and clicking "Settings"
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Then, click "Change PC Settings"
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Click "Accounts" on the left-hand side
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There will be several pictures here that we have already taken, but if we want to remove some of all of them, we have to do the following steps.
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First, we need to access the desktop by moving the mouse to the upper left-hand corner of the screen and then clicking on the desktop
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Now we need to open the file explorer by double clicking "This PC"
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In the address bar, we have to type in "%appdata%\microsoft\Windows\accountpictures", then hit "Enter"
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We will then be in the account pictures directory.

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We can remove one by clicking it and pushing the "Delete" key on the keyboard
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Click "Yes" or hit "Enter"
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If we go back to the account pictures, the one that we deleted is no longer shown
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This concludes the tutorial on how to remove a user account picture on a Windows 8 computer
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