Connected Device Platform service and new user profile folder "defaultuser100000"

Question

_{Sunday, July 28, 2019 5:03 PM | 1 vote}

Hello,

I just realized that recently the user profile folder "defaultuser100000" has been created with the following subfolders

   C:\Users\defaultuser100000\AppData\Local\ConnectedDevicesPlatform\L.defaultuser100000

and this subfolder contains 3 files:

- ActivitiesCache.db
- ActivitiesCache.db-shm
- ActivitiesCache.db-wal

Can anyone shed some light on why this folders have been created? Did something go wrong?

I'm not really happy if Windows (Updates?) - or something else? - creates additional profile folders and I actually want to delete these folders. Can I safely do that?

Note: The Windows Computer Management Utility does not show any additional local user that might correspond to the data in the folder "defaultuser100000".

My system: Windows 10 Pro 1903 Build 18362.239

Thanks for any help!

-Thomas

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_{Monday, July 29, 2019 6:26 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Thomas, I'd go ahead and delete it, safe and easy.

Regards

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_{Sunday, July 28, 2019 9:15 PM}

Hello,

I just realized that recently the user profile folder "defaultuser100000" has been created with the following subfolders

   C:\Users\defaultuser100000\AppData\Local\ConnectedDevicesPlatform\L.defaultuser100000

and this subfolder contains 3 files:

- ActivitiesCache.db
- ActivitiesCache.db-shm
- ActivitiesCache.db-wal

Can anyone shed some light on why this folders have been created? Did something go wrong?

I'm not really happy if Windows (Updates?) - or something else? - creates additional profile folders and I actually want to delete these folders. Can I safely do that?

Note: The Windows Computer Management Utility does not show any additional local user that might correspond to the data in the folder "defaultuser100000".

My system: Windows 10 Pro 1903 Build 18362.239

Thanks for any help!

-Thomas

The same here... thx

_{Sunday, August 4, 2019 8:38 AM}

Ok, I've just deleted it as suggested, although I'm not completely satisfied with such a "sledgehammer approach" since I would like to know what's going on ;-) Thanks!

_{Friday, November 8, 2019 4:59 PM}

The same here! please someone who has an explanation?

_{Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:12 PM}

How can you offer this advise if you don't even know what it is? 

_{Monday, November 18, 2019 4:52 PM | 4 votes}

The defaultuser100000 folder is created when you click "I forgot my password" or "I forgot my PIN" in the lock screen. It creates a temporary user to let you access password recovery options.

If you do it multiple times (sometimes I click that option by accident instead of "sign-in options"), it creates additional folders like defaultuser100000.YourComputerName, defaultuser100000.YourComputerName.000, and defaultuser100000.YourComputerName.000.001.