Built-in Administrator user folder

Question: Can I hide the Administrator user folder from showing on c:\users\? I tried googling this but the responses are all about enabling or disabling the built-in admin account and not about the admin user folder left behind. I already disabled it, but the folders are still showing.

EdgarO said:

Can I hide the Administrator user folder from showing on c:\users\?

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Yes.
Or, since the account has been disabled, you can just delete its folder. You wouldn't expect to have saved any files within that folder.
If you ever re-enable it then log into it, the folder will get recreated.

Do consider making a spare local, password-protected Admin user account of your own to use in case your day-to-day user account ever gets corrupted.
my ditty - Create two spare local, password-protected Admin accounts [post #2] in Windows 10, 11 - TenForums

Denis

Try3 said:

Yes.
Or, since the account has been disabled, you can just delete its folder. You wouldn't expect to have saved any files within that folder.
If you ever re-enable it then log into it, the folder will get recreated.

Do consider making a spare local, password-protected Admin user account of your own to use in case your day-to-day user account ever gets corrupted.
my ditty - Create two spare local, password-protected Admin accounts [post #2] in Windows 10, 11 - TenForums

Denis

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Thanks. I didn't know the folder will get recreated if I enable it in the future. I know the %appdata% folder is also there and sometimes those won't delete easily, but I will give it a try.

I guess I should mention how I got here, this pc had Windows 10 and for some reason it got corrupted. The settings window wasn't opening and I couldn't even open the start menu. So instead of trying to fix that I decided to upgrade to 11. I backed up all the files out to a flash drive. I enabled the built-in admin account and decided to upgrade from there. The upgrade went fine and I deleted the old windows 10 main user account right after. I did forget that I was still using the built-in admin account and I also installed ms office. When I realized that, I created another admin user using my ms account. I made sure Office was working fine from the new user account and I added the personal files from the external drive. After this, I disabled the built-in admin account using the lusrmgr.msc method, but noticed the folder was still there on explorer.