{"id":24538,"date":"2024-05-21T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/news-18268\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T20:10:03","slug":"news-18268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/news-18268\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete an additional user from a shared Windows device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There will be times when you need to remove a user from a device. In this article we&#8217;ll show you how to remove a user from Windows 10 or 11. <\/p>\n<p>On Windows you can create a local user account (an offline account) for anyone who will frequently use&nbsp;your PC. But the best option in most cases, is&nbsp;for everyone who uses your PC&nbsp;to&nbsp;have a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/account-billing\/how-to-create-a-new-microsoft-account-a84675c3-3e9e-17cf-2911-3d56b15c0aaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Microsoft account<\/a>. With a Microsoft account, you can access your apps, files, and Microsoft services across your devices.<\/p>\n<p>Should you want to remove an additional user account from Windows 10 or 11, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select&nbsp;<strong>Start&nbsp;<\/strong>&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Settings&nbsp;<\/strong>&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Accounts&nbsp;<\/strong>&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Family &amp; other users.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>Other users<\/strong>, select the flyout for the account you want to remove.<\/li>\n<li>Next to&nbsp;<strong>Account and data<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Remove<\/strong>.&nbsp;Note: this will not delete their Microsoft account, it will just remove their sign-in info from your Windows device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"923\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/Windows_family.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Family &amp; other users menu\" class=\"wp-image-110145\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Please note that Windows devices can have more than one administrator account. A user with an administrator account can access everything on the system, and any malware they encounter can use the&nbsp;administrator permissions to potentially infect or damage any files on the system. Only grant that level of access when absolutely necessary and to people you trust.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>We don\u2019t just report on threats\u2014we remove them<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your devices by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/for-home\">downloading Malwarebytes today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/explained\/2024\/05\/how-to-delete-an-additional-user-from-a-shared-windows-device\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This post explains how to remove additional users and accounts from your Windows device <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[10522,26699,31411,31412,10525],"class_list":["post-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-explained","tag-personal","tag-remove-user","tag-shared","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}