How to delete a user's folder in Windows 8.1?
2014-04
Jason
I have a laptop which is being given to a different employee. I added a new Administrator account and deleted the old one.
I deleted the User from the Windows 8.1 user utility thingy.
So the user is gone, can't login, that's good.
Problem is, in Explorer, he's still there. Let's call the guy Bob. So when I navigate to C:\Users I still see the \Bob directory. I don't want to see Bob any more, I canned his happy ass for a reason.
Can someone please tell me how to remove C:\Users\Bob? When I try, it goes on forever (says it's deleting some 12 gig of files - which don't exist in that directory) then hangs on a couple of system files. Bob's gone and not coming back, I'd like his user directory to do the same.
arco444
You could try to delete the profile. Open System Properties, choose the Advanced tab and select "Settings" in the User Profiles section. This will bring up a list. If Bob is listed in there, you can try deleting which should clear up all associated registry keys, directories etc.
Justin Dearing
I can't believe this question wasn't already asked. I came across the answer when asking a slightly different question.
Lets say I am logged in as user Bob and I open up a command prompt via the runas command with Alice's credentials. How do I launch explorer with Alice's credentials from the command prompt.
Justin Dearing
Florin Lazar answered this question in this blog article. You launch explorer as follows:
explorer/separate
If anyone has a better answer, I'll wait a bit before marking mine as the accepted answer.
8088
Its possible to configure explorer so that all folders windows are separate processed for that user. To do that launch explorer as the user you want to be able to run explorer as through the runas command then select "Tools | Folder Options". From there check the box labeled "Launch folder windows in separate process," as shown below.
