How to Remove Old Profile Pictures from Windows 10

In terms of customization, Windows 8 and later versions are really awesome. A lot of things can be personalized as per the user’s requirements. And Windows 10 has a lot more options to customize near to everything. However, you know that Windows 10 runs with Microsoft account that can be used with as many devices as possible and get automatic synchronization.

Windows 10 provides a user-friendly option to change the profile picture of your Microsoft account and eventually it will change your PC’s profile picture. Or, if you are using Local account instead of Microsoft account to sign in to Windows, you can still do the same. In this case, it will change only your Local user account’s profile picture, what generally appears on the login screen.

However, if you have a mania for changing the profile picture frequently, I think you have already changed it many times. If so, obviously, a lot of pictures have been stored in your PC those will be displayed under the Account Settings panel.

Remove Old Profile Pictures from Windows 10

This account settings panel is available under the new Settings window of Windows 10 (Win + I). Although, it will not create any problem if you have multiple pictures stored as display picture for your account, yet, you may be distracted by having so many images. If you are getting any kind of issues and want to remove all those unused profile pictures, here is a solution.

Although the Account Settings doesn’t let users delete those pictures, you can easily remove them from the list if you can find the storage location. No matter, whether you use Microsoft account or Local account, Windows always stores all those images in a certain location. You just have to find it and delete them according to you.

But, before deleting, you need to show hidden folders. To show hidden folders, there are several methods you can follow.

How to Hide File/Folder in Windows 10?

Both methods are simple and not much time-consuming.

#1 Method

Open File Explorer, click on the Ribbon, go to View tab, click on Options & Change folder and search options.

unhide hidden folders in windows 10

Go to the View tab and check the box that says Show hidden files, folders and drives.

show hidden files

Therefore, click on OK.

#2 Method

Press Ctrl + X, click on Control Panel, change the view to Large icons, click on File Explorer Options. After that, go to the View tab and check the box that says Show hidden files, folders and drives.

Therefore, click on OK.

#3 Method

You can also use Cortana to open File Explorer Options and unhide hidden files. To do so, click on the Cortana search box on Taskbar, type file explorer options and click on the search result.

Then, follow the same method what is mentioned above.

Remove Old Profile Pictures from Windows 10

After unhiding the hidden files/folder, you need to go to a certain location to delete stored images. Here you have two methods to go to that location. You can either follow the following path,

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

Or, you can directly go to that location using Run prompt. To use Run prompt, press Win + R together, paste the following line in your RUN prompt and hit enter.

%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

Here you will get all those images what is being used as your profile picture and have used as your display picture. You can select and remove them all.

Remove Old Profile Pictures from Windows 10

After removing, you will get the Account settings like this,

Remove Old Profile Pictures from Windows 10

Final Word

Instead of storing those unused images, you can easily delete them, so that you can get a neat and clean user interface. Obviously, it will not consume a lot of space but still, this seems useful.

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11 comments

  1. R says:

    thanks !!

    you can directly go to that location using Run prompt. To use Run prompt, press Win + R together, paste the following line in your RUN prompt and hit enter.
    %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

  2. Sudip Majhi says:

    Thank you for your share.

  3. Ryan C says:

    This worked great! Following the path right to the pictures was easiest for me.
    C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures

  4. Fart Sniffer says:

    Great! Except I deleted them and still the user account shows the same photo… thanks for making a simple change so easy Microsoft!

  5. Wen says:

    OMG! THANK YOU THANK YOU! THIS HAS BOTHERING ME FOR SO LONG! YOUR METHODS WORK!
    GOD BLESS YOU!

  6. francis says:

    ‘C:\Users\BLZ\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

    pls help

  7. T says:

    Worked!! Thanks you

  8. James Picton says:

    Path not recognised.
    This is fg bs Microsoft
    So simple, sort it out

  9. Nicola says:

    I still don’t understand. What location where do I enter the Run prompt?

  10. denni says:

    thank you it worked appreciate all your hard work to allow us use this

  11. pat barnett says:

    i deleted the photos in several locations (listed above), but the photo still appears on the browser top bar. How do i make it disappear from everywhere? thank you.

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