Remove User Accounts in Windows 7

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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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