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Remove a user from a desktop ... instantly, any chance/possibility?

Remove myself completely from the desktop ... fastest.

Means I would like to completely eliminate/remove everything related to myself from a desktop.

Please advise, how I can accomplish this ... in the fastest possible manner, browsers, files ... everything.

Thanks in advance, for your assistance, help & guidance here.
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If you keep your files in your user profile, log into the machine as an administrator, Control Panel, Advanced System Properties, Advanced, click on User Profiles and delete your profile. Then go to Users and Groups and delete your user ID.

That will work.

If you keep your data all over the place, all bets are off and it will not be quick.
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That will not eliminate log events and does not always remove ProfileImagePath entry
Unlikely anyone would want those, but if you are concerned, you would need to back up and do a fresh install to be certain. We do not need to do this
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Thanks for all your advises ... but one clarification, this is needed, when you don't have admin rights.
You cannot remove profiles without admin rights. So you need to get your IT department to remove the profile.
John ... actually, I would like to remove myself completely ;)

e.g., if you left a job, you don't want to keep any of your files there and would like to erase your existence completely, without wasting any time.

this is what I want ...

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MK
i think that is for your employer to do that
You will be able to delete your own data (documents etc) but free space still need to be wiped to prevent restores
Thanks Shaun ... how about format the whole disk, because stored data @D, just quick format ;) also need to do the same for browsers too, please advise, using chrome & ff.

I think, should move their profiles to D and then ...

thoughts.
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this seems a good idea, let me test this first and then will update here, how it went.

Thanks all & nobus :)
That would require admin rights
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to answer his suggestion, he'll Always need admin privileges imo