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This is an undocumented account but, like Administrator and Guest, is a built-in account. After much searching it seems that this this thread gets deeper than most (but not by much) into what its for. Oh, and by the way...
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r307...some-questionsthe short answer is that the GUI -- and probably some layers of code -- refuse to delete those built-in accounts.
...so apparently you can't delete DefaultAccount (or Administrator and Guest) even if you wanted to. (Probably for the best.)
Theories on what it is for (there being no documentation) fall into two main camps:
1) It's the template for all new user accounts. I tend to think this is wrong - surely that is what the hidden C:\users\Default folder is for.
2)...https://social.technet.microsoft.com...ew2014FeedbackIt is the standard location where if the software does not specify elsewhere installs itself.
...which sounds plausible.
Hi Bree. Thanks for taking the time to reply with what is some very helpful information. I'm very grateful. :)
Before I created this thread there was 2 accounts with the word 'Default' in the name.
I really should have posted before I deleted one of them. I obviously didn't delete the one which is called 'DefaultAccount' because as you can see on my screenshot 'DefaultAccount' is still there.
I wish I could remember what it was called.
So on new Windows 10 Enterprise installs...... for me anyway, it creates 5 user accounts. Administrator, 'Your current user name', 'Guest', 'DefaultAccount' and then the other 'default' one, which ever it was before I deleted it. Could it have been 'Default User'?
There is often an account called "Default.migrated", which can be safely deleted. This is your "old" default account prior to a migration which occurred during an upgrade.