Deleting A User Account Picture

That doesn't work in Windows 10. The user account pictures are here: 

C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

And, by the way, I was really stupid to install the Windows 10 "upgrade". Talk about a "downgrade". Sheesh!

Hi Newportlen,

Thank you for Using Micorsoft Windows forum

If you want to delete the administrator picture then you'd have to log into administrator account.

To delete a standard User account picture you may have to edit the registry to delete it.

Follow the steps :

Account Type     Default Picture Location

Users                C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmpGuest               C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\guest.bmp

    1. Name the image that you want to use to delete .bmp and/or guest.bmp for the account type you want it as the default for.

    2. Make sure that you have Show hidden files and folders selected in Folder Options.

    3. Open a Windows Explorer Window.

    4. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures

        A) For the default logon picture you want to delete, right click on user.bmp or guest.bmp and click delete.

        B) Delete and press Enter, then click Yes, Continue, and Continue.

Regards,

Azeez Nadeem - Microsoft Support

Microsoft help and all the forums seem very evasive trying to get a straight answer about this.  I worked at it and found a way to REMOVE pictures in your account that you no longer want.  (You'd think that you could simply Right-Click delete right?) No that would be too easy.

For Microsoft 10 users note that the FOLLOWING File Path which was given in a previous post as:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp

**is most likely incorrect.**Try this path instead:

C:\Users*YOUR-USERNAME-INSERTED-HERE\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures*

(note you need to have access to hidden files/folders ON, AND login as the administrator AND you should have Large icons 'ticked' on the show contents or view as: option.) ( just so you can see the files you wish to delete since windows 10 creates it's own picture file with a long string of characters as it's NAME and it's NOT "USER.BMP"  it will more likely be something like'57f2bb74b6df5fe8' and it may have the extension type HIDDEN even THOUGH you have selected to SHOW all file extensions under file view.  This is why the search string shown below has TWO wild cards in the search string *.*  one * for the name then a dot and the next * for the extension file type. )

But if that fails there are a couple of other work arounds.

Do an advanced search on the entire drive including system folders with the following option in the search string: (you can copy and paste this)

This option works if you wait for a day first and don't CHANGE any pictures...then go in and change your User picture... so that THAT is the ONLY picture modified on that day.  Then search with this option:   *.*kind:=picture datemodified:today

This search string will locate ANY PICTURE modifed TODAY on your hard drive.

Then when you SEE the photo you wish to delete simply right click on it and select:

Open Folder or Open Location (something like that) and it will take you to the correct folder which SHOULD be the one I listed above - but it might be something else.

There is another way to at least REMOVE (not delete) the photos from the main view when you open your account and that is to simply UPLOAD another photo - say a generic placeholder icon and by doing this three times you will eliminate the offending picture from immediate view.

hope this helps.

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 sorry but you might as well written this reply in Chinese, which I don't speak or read, I'm absolutely none the wiser. Sorry

Which version of Windows are you running?

Don

Split from this thread.

Hi Azeez sorry but you might as well written this reply in Chinese, which I don't speak or read, I'm absolutely none the wiser. Sorry