2nd user account at login screen, Should I be worried?

Hi Everyone!

I noticed that I have an additional account shown at my login screen. It's not a user account I created, and it doesn't show up under Control Panel>User Accounts. The only thing that shows up in the User Accounts page is my user account (shown as admin), and a guest account (shown as off).

I'm wondering if I should be worried about this second user account shown at the login screen, or if there was a way to remove/hide this 2nd user account from showing up at the login screen? I'm not sure how it came/shown up in the first place. I'm hoping someone can explain this issue to me and/or help! Thanks! :)

Your forum system specs indicate that you use Avast for your antivirus app. However, did you ever use ESET? If so, then please see this post. If not, then use Windows (file) Explorer to see is there is a user folder (C;\Users\username) for this additional account. If there is a user profile folder for this additional account, then the date on that folder and its sub-folders might give you a clue about how long the user account has been active.

UsernameIssues said:

Your forum system specs indicate that you use Avast for your antivirus app. However, did you ever use ESET? If so, then please see this post. If not, then use Windows (file) Explorer to see is there is a user folder (C;\Users\username) for this additional account. If there is a user profile folder for this additional account, then the date on that folder and its sub-folders might give you a clue about how long the user account has been active.

Hi UsernameIssues! I have never heard of nor have used ESET. I have checked to see if there was a user folder under C:\Users for that extra account, and there isn't one, just my user folder and a public one.

If you only see two folders
(similar to this):



Then please follow the steps here:
Hidden Files and Folders - Show or Hide
For step 2, also uncheck Hide protected operating system files:




Then the Users folder should look more like this:



If there are no odd folders in there, then let's wait for others to post ideas for you.


You can set the folder options back to the way that you had them - if you wish.

UsernameIssues said:

If you only see two folders
(similar to this):



Then please follow the steps here:
Hidden Files and Folders - Show or Hide
For step 2, also uncheck Hide protected operating system files:




Then the Users folder should look more like this:



If there are no odd folders in there, then let's wait for others to post ideas for you.


You can set the folder options back to the way that you had them - if you wish.

Thank you for your help so far! :)

I just checked the user folder again just now, using the instructions you gave me, and I still didn't see a user folder with the name of the 2nd account shown at the login screen on my computer.

Hacb said:

what is the name of the account

Hi Hacb! The name of the 2nd account shown on the login screen is called "FDS Running"

Hacb said:

are you on a school or work issued mchine, they can often have other logins from the servers they use

It's my own personal computer.