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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="user-delete">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="user-add"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>
    <revision version="gnome:42" status="final" date="2022-04-02"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Remove users that no longer use your computer.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Delete a user account</title>

  <p>You can <link xref="user-add">add multiple user accounts to your
  computer</link>. If somebody is no longer using your computer, you can delete
  that user’s account.</p>

  <p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
  to delete user accounts.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and
      start typing <gui>System</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <guiseq><gui>Settings</gui><gui>System</gui></guiseq> from the
      results. This will open the <gui>System</gui> panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui>Users</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and
      type in your password when prompted.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on the user account that you want to delete under
      <gui>Other Users</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press the <gui style="button">Remove User...</gui> button to delete
      that user account.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Each user has their own home folder for their files and settings. You
      can choose to keep or delete the user’s home folder. Click <gui>Delete
      Files</gui> if you are sure they will not be used anymore and you need to
      free up disk space. These files are permanently deleted. They cannot be
      recovered. You may want to back up the files to an external storage device
      before deleting them.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
