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Nuance says that after an uninstall you can remove leftover user profiles yourself: in File Explorer, go to Nuance\NS16\Users and select the profiles to delete.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“Navigate to Nuance\NS16\Users ... Right-click the user profiles that you want to delete, and then select Delete”

Manually removing user profiles after uninstalling Dragon (Dragon Professional 16 help), Nuance Communications, Nuance Communications, Dragon Professional 16 help, 2023, Manually removing user profiles after uninstalling Dragon.

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What it measures
The removal procedure starts from the %localappdata% folder, which opens the Users folder for your Windows account. Nuance's steps then go to Nuance\NS16\Users.
What it does not show
The page is for Dragon Professional 16 on Windows. The Local AppData path depends on your Windows account, and the page does not say how to find a profile that was moved to ProgramData during an upgrade.

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