Delete an Account

If you created a user account temporarily or if you have a user account that is no longer needed or no longer used, you can delete that account.

This reduces the number of users that appear on the Users tab of the PC Settings app, as well as on the Windows 8 sign-on screen, which can make these screens a bit easier to navigate. Deleting a user account also means that Windows 8 reclaims the disk space that the account uses, which gives you more room to store files in your other accounts.

Delete an Account

001 Sign out of the user account that you want to delete.

Note: To sign out of an account, tap the user account tile on the Start ...

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