How to remove Defaultuser0 password on Windows 10

If you've completed an upgrade or installation of Windows 10, but you're faced with the Defaultuser0 password issue on the login screen, then this post is intended to help you. In this post, we will present the solutions you can try to get past this anomaly.

Defaultuser0 is a system user profile used when Windows is setting up during OOBE, before any user accounts have been created. It should and usually does disappear after the first reboot after installation. If the profile folder remains in Users folder, it's safe to manually delete it.

As per the support team of Microsoft, there is no password for defaultuser0 account since the account has been encrypted. So how do you get past this logon screen?

Remove Defaultuser0 password issue on Windows 10

If you're faced with this issue, you can try any of the solutions below to resolve the issue.

1. Restart computer
2. Reset Windows 10
3. Login with the inbuilt Administrator account

Let's take a look at the description of the process involved concerning each of the listed solutions.

1] Restart computer

The foremost and easiest solution to resolve this Defaultuser0 password issue is to restart your system. If this simple method fails to resolve the issue, you can continue with the next solution.

2] Reset Windows 10

This solution will reset your PC to the default configuration. The reset operation will fully clean your partition that contained Windows. All the software and applications installed will be deleted. The Default Windows application will be intact.

Do the following:

• Click the Power button on the login screen while holding the Shift key on the keyboard.
• Still holding the Shift key, click Restart button on the screen until you see Advance Recovery Option.
• After Advance Recovery Option appears, select Troubleshoot.
• Among the list of options select Reset this PC.
• Now select Remove Everything.

When the operation completes, see if you can log in normally with your user account. If not, try the next solution.

3] Login with the inbuilt Administrator account

This solution to this password issue requires you to boot into Safe Mode and log in with the inbuilt Administrator account and then create a new user account, then delete the Defaultuser0 account.

Here's how:

• Click the Power button on the login screen while holding the Shift key on the keyboard.
• Still holding the Shift key, click Restart button on the screen. Keep holding the Shift key until you see Advance Recovery Option.
• Now navigate to Troubleshoot > Advance Options > Startup Settings and select Restart.
• After restart, you will be presented with multiple options. Press F6 or 6 to enter Safe mode with Command Prompt.
• If prompted select Administrator account.
• Now on the command prompt enter the following query to create a new account.
• Replace the and placeholders with the username of the account and user password respectively.

net user   /add

• Restart the system.

The newly created user will now be displayed on the login screen. You can log in to the newly created user using the password. After successful login, you can disable or delete this user account easily.

Hope this helped.