It "takes a village" to raise a Windows User.;)

Thanks for holding my hand:-) through this.

Success. I can't begin to Thank everyone for your suggestions. By re-reading and tenacious effort, (that's for you; win10tweaker) I no longer have an account image at logon. After all attempts, in...

SFC does not find anything related and neither does it re--set account pics as I think I read in one of Shawn's tutorials.
My current is a clean install on a formatted SSD.
As a 30+ year graphics...

Thanks, W10 Tweaker. Your post #14 has repeatedly removed the image, leaving me with either a solid black or solid white circle. This is the effect I get whenever I have used .png. The truly...

I have come to suspect it is not the image, but my PC's ability to show transparency at the logon phase.
Ever heard of this?

Yes, I have "transparency" turned on.

I will look at it again, Thanks. I am currently eyeballing 65,000 found .png files. I'm retired. I have time.

:confused: This program is crazy fast. Thanks for the suggestion.
I need to be clear, I have tried Shawn's process multiple times. Something about my config must be faulty, so finding the image...

Thank-you, W10 Tweaker. Although I have used the windows search function and found the image in many unexpected places, there is apparently another lurker. I will try you suggestion.

Thank-you all for your time and suggestions. I am going to approach this from a different angle.
"If this image appears on my login screen, it must exist and can be found somewhere within Windows."...

Here's a snapshot as I do not know how to screencap before logon

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I do not know what "unblocked" means, but as the image appears transparent in my image editor, I suspect all is well with it.
Windows 10: Account settings image is clean (although it could be a an...

OK, Shawn.
I will take your suggestion, find an older restore point where things were closer to default settings and try again.
I'll get back to you.
Thank-you for what you do.
Kevin

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Hello Shawn.
I have relied on many of your excellent tutorials in the past and have tried the one you suggest a few times now. It just diesn't work.
Is it possible I have tried too many things and...

Win10 Pro 21H1

I don't want to see any image/icon mucking up my beautiful log-in screen. I can not, after reading and following dozens of threads, seem to delete it.
I have deleted all images in...

Weird.
Here's the original.
[SOLVED] - Can't delete what isn't there. | Tom's Hardware Forum

No worries.

Caledon Ken,
Now that all is fixed, I'm pretty sure the phantom device was seen as an old CD drive...which would make sense due to the history of my installing and uninstalling external drives over...

Windows 10 v1903.
In Device Manager; Portable devices, I have a drive showing up that is not there. I have uninstalled it many times only to have it re-install itself on re-boot. Thinking some other...

Thanks, Bree.

How?

Take out the battery! Brilliant. Now, I just have to find it. This box is packed tighter than my parent's station wagon (remember those?) I'll report back.

Update:
WHOWHOO!
Megahertz, you can...

I have followed the power options instructions AND run Brinks .bat file. No go. The PC hangs up WHENEVER I try anything other than a simple re-start...which it does very fast; seconds.

Yes. sorry. I've tried DEL, F2, F8, F10 and F11. My Motherboard is supposed to respond to F11. It doesn't.

Cliff,
Don't understand this:
"spamming the delete key during POST"