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I came across this link which also had a nice helpful explanation, in case any other member wants to read it: https://www.windowsdigitals.com/windows-11-account-unknown-s-1-15-3-or-s-1-5-21/#What_are_Account_Unknown_S-1-15-3_and_S-1-5-21_in_Windows_11

Oooh, thanks! I'll definitely read that link too! :)

Yeah, that became quite a doozy of a read, eh?... I can imagine it's hard for people to keep a calm head when they're so stressed about unwanted things happening that they can't figure out. Especially if it's interfering seriously with their needs or work. I tried to not be influenced by their...

@antspants Thanks. :) I've got them bookmarked. :) I checked the status with the first method for this OEM Win11 computer and it said there was nothing. :)

I was just looking at my old 8.1 computer's C drive properties. It has 4 things listed under 'group or user names' (Authenticated Users with special permissions enabled, system, administrators, and users). On the Win11 Home OEM, it has those, plus this 'account unknown' SID, plus a second...

When I click to try to read more about its special permissions, in the advanced permissions section it has 3 things enabled: traverse folder/execute file, list folder/read data, and read attributes. Could this kind of SID be exploited by malware to execute something on my system or harvest data...

Is there no way to find out what exactly it's doing, so I can make an informed decision about whether I actually want it doing that? Is it normal for its name to change like I mentioned above? (the first part of its name disappeared after I clicked to look closer at it even though I made...

It's weird, isn't it, that the first part of its name disappeared after I clicked to look closer at it? I'm wondering what exactly it's doing and if I can delete or disable it. I don't like that there's an account with mysterious special permissions doing who knows what with my system. I'm...

Yeah, I've been trying to learn more about it tonight to ease my mind. I'm feeling less nervous now, thanks to your reassurances and the extra reading tonight, but still have a bit more reading to finish. This 'Account Unknown' thing that I stumbled on was a surprise that interrupted the...

Disk Management doesn't show any locks on the partitions, which I guess it would if bitlocker was there. I'm sorry that happened to you with your Notebooks. Not a great surprise if one isn't prepared for it, eh?

@pseymour Taking a pause from reading the thread that was given, to post the full name of it: Account Unknown(S-1-15-3-65536-1888954469-739942743-1668119174-2468466756-4239452838-1296943325-355587736-700089176) It has special permissions for the C drive, but I don't know how to find out what it...

Oh thank you! I didn't know I could search like that. :)

Oh thanks! I'll look at that one first when I get to come back to the subject. :)

Hi everyone. So I was looking around on my OEM Win 11 Home 23h2 computer a few minutes ago. I clicked to see the properties of my C drive. And I discovered that under the Security tab, under 'Group or user names', the very first thing listed was "Account Unknown(S-1-15-3-65536-.....)" It turned...

Okay. That's good to know, thanks. I'll have to read more about it later on, then, after getting hubby's new OS set up. ...I'm curious about how PINs would be more secure than my passwords already are. Maybe the links already provided will talk about that...