Remove User Accounts in Windows 7

Edited by Lukward Thomason, Crystal, Jen M

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Steps

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    Start off by clicking the Start menu in the bottom left corner of the screen
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    Click "Control Panel" to open the Control Panel
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    Once the Control Panel is open, find the "User Accounts and Family Safety" section, and in that section, click "Add or remove user accounts"
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    Once you click it, you will be presented with a new window. In this window, there is a list of all of the user accounts. You can remove or disable all of them, except for the one that you are currently logged into.
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    For example, the first user is logged in as an Administrator, so we cannot remove it right now
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    We can disable the guest account and delete "VisiHow", the standard user that is not currently logged in.
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    To remove the Guest account, click it once, then click "Turn off the guest account"
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    It is now turned off.
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    To remove the standard user, click it once, then click "Delete this account"
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    The system will ask you if you would like to delete all of the files that are associated to the user account
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    You can either delete these files or keep them. In this case, I'm going to choose "Delete Files".
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    The system will ask you if you are sure that you want to delete the account; click "Delete Account"
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    The account has been deleted
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    This concludes the tutorial on how to remove user accounts on a Windows 7 computer
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    If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in the comment section below. Thank you for watching VisiHow.
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Recent edits by: Crystal, Lukward Thomason

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