Vista: How To Delete a User Account
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Vista Have an account that you no longer need on your computer? You can delete it and still keep the desktop and personal files associated with the account by following these steps:
1. Log onto the computer using an account with administrator privileges.
2. Click the Start Button.
3. Click the picture associated with your account at the top of the menu.
4. Select Manage another account.
5. When the UAC box pops up, click Continue.
6. Select the user account that is to be deleted.
7. Click Delete the Account.
8. You will be asked if you wish to keep the files from the deleted account. To save the account’s desktop and personal files to your desktop, click Keep Files. This will place the files into a directory with the account’s name onto your desktop. Otherwise click the Delete Files button.
9. Click Delete Account.
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Ruth said on November 19, 2008
Thanks – it worked! thank you very much! I had two accounts to get rid of – one is gone, but the guest account I had previously ‘removed’ seems to be stuck! .. when I select it , the options that come up do not include ‘delete’, only turn on, turn off,or cancel …any suggestions? I’m new to this area of computing, and your instructions were very clear and easy, thanks again.
ali said on December 15, 2008
when i cancelled the process afther delete files or keep files wizard came but now i canlt delete account please help me how can i delete account.
sadcs said on January 20, 2009
nothing happens when I click it
Cheese said on February 20, 2009
Hi there’s no ‘delete account’ option when i click on the guest account. i can’t seem to find a way to get rid of the account and its frustrating. help pls.
charles said on April 18, 2009
i dont see delete account on the screen. any other option? pls help me.
lolololololol said on April 21, 2009
thank you my friend thanks a lot
steve said on April 24, 2009
Great, thanks alot!
Anonymous said on May 13, 2009
Can you delete a account with Administrator and which is the 1st Account on the computer if u have 2 ?
tanya said on May 25, 2009
hi did you find any thing that works i am having same problem!?
ats said on June 24, 2009
erm,i got problem with it.mine only can be turn on or off or cancel.it only got this 3 options
Anonymous said on July 23, 2009
I have a problem, I bought a laptop that was previously owned. In order to delete anything I need the password the previous owner put on it, and I have no clue who they are. Any way I can over-ride this?
sacred said on September 27, 2009
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Anonymous said on November 1, 2009
i cant find a delete button
Anonymous said on November 3, 2009
The Users window froze after I Select Manage another account. Why is that? Please help! I really want to delete some some users, because my computer was used by someone else before me. And these two users files are taking a big part of my hard drive.
Thanks in advance.
Anonymous said on November 3, 2009
I have the same question. Do you have solution yet? Thanks.
Anonymous said on January 1, 2010
i have two administrater accounts so how do i delete one and i do not want a log in password so how do i take that out
Bryan Anderson said on February 6, 2010
Okay, I have a question about this… I’ve tried this multiple times…
I can do these steps:
1. Log onto the computer using an account with administrator privileges.
2. Click the Start Button.
3. Click the picture associated with your account at the top of the menu.
4. Select Manage another account.
5. When the UAC box pops up, click Continue.
But once I click Continue, the lap top does nothing at all. The UAC box just dissapears and nothing happens.
I’ve tried changing my UAC settings, and whenever I click Continue on the UAC box to do that, it does nothing once again.
Please email me!
pesky.email@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Blaster V said on February 18, 2010
When I select “manage another account” the list of accounts is empty. I know for a fact that I have 3 different accounts active, and the account that I am using to try to delete them is administrator. Any help would be appreciated.
Blaster V said on February 18, 2010
There is no way to “delete” the guest account, you can only disable it/turn it off.
Anonymous said on March 9, 2010
There should only be 1 Super Admin account… log into that. Delete the accounts from there. Commands you will need are as follows:
cmd.exe(run as Administrator)
type in command: net user Administrator /active:yes
This makes Super Admin active. DO NOT over use this account… this account is the heart of your computer. Once logged in, go to control panel, users, manage accounts, then delete. Click keep files if files are important. Continue to delete account. Any questions beyond this, please email me at iforsaken.0@gmail.com.
Anonymous said on March 9, 2010
You can only delete another Admin account IF you have permission to do so. The only way to tell for sure is to go to the Super Admin account…and look at there permissions. Any questions: iforsaken.0@gmail.com
Anonymous said on March 9, 2010
You can only disable a guest account. There is no way of deleting it as it is written to the hard drive along with the OS. Do not try to delete it.
Anonymous said on March 9, 2010
run command as Admin. in command, type: net user Administrator /active:yes
log out, log into Super Admin account, delete from there. Any questions, please email me: iforsaken.0@gmail.com
Anonymous said on April 17, 2010
hi , uhm right after i deleted the account and added a new one i clicked save files , but when i went on the files aren;t there where do i look for them?
Anonymous said on April 17, 2010
ok , i need help i deleted my account and made a new , i clicked keep files , but i dont know where to find the files ? help someone please!
Adrian said on April 18, 2010
I saved the files but I’m unable to find the file on my computer.
Where is it stored?
And there is no way to delete a Guest account you can only disable it.
Anonymous said on May 8, 2010
My Files are gone!? even though i selected keep files!?!?
james said on May 17, 2010
you cant delete your quest acc
luis alban said on June 20, 2010
how i disable that guest account can acces my files and pictures from administrator account?
Ice2_camille said on July 4, 2010
it doesnt say delete!!! all it says is to turn off guest account or not..i wanna cry now..nothing here is helping me…i want to delete that account asap..idk how it just say turn off or on..theres no delete option i swear i keep finding it im tired alrrady
Nabhavranade said on July 7, 2010
Once made active, how to make the super admin account inactive? Is there a way to remove it?
J-Spill said on July 29, 2010
Thank-you, very useful, my previous account had 6gigs of roaming data, very useless, now i can just delete him….
Rutthy said on July 30, 2010
thanks for giving me the solution. infact you have just save a soul from enemies
jay said on July 31, 2010
it does not say delete account on screen my laptop broke and had to make new account but it wont let me have a password or delete it plz help
Karl said on August 8, 2010
How do you delete a user account if you foget the password
skulls21 said on August 27, 2010
thanks! :)
Ashraf said on September 14, 2010
ur realllllly reallly helping me to get rid of my account!!
Charlottte-01 said on September 14, 2010
i have accidently made my guest account an adminstrator, and now it wont let me turn it off. i can’t make another account or delete the one i am usingg. any ideas for me to do ive tryed everything!?
Lovemyshaney said on October 3, 2010
I have a disabled admin user account which when I go in user accounts does not give me the option to delete. If I go into other accounts it does not bring this account up at all. But when we log in it goes straight into this old user account and we have to log out and log in to the new one… any ideas
mandy said on October 18, 2010
thnx love u so know my parent can’t go on my laptop oxox i hate them!!!!!
Cameltoe said on January 17, 2011
Just turn it off, it will not dissapear. But turn it off and you won’t get bothered.
Taylor_Binnie said on April 13, 2011
It’s not letting me delete is please help :(
Russellas said on May 19, 2011
Once again, the computers win. nothing seems to work unless you are a complete computer geek. Us average users cant do anything about this simple junk that should be as easy as loggint into our desktop.