Deleting a user account without losing files

Some time before, when I started using Win 7, I was told to prevent people to access your computer, the best thing is to create another user account so that your administrator account has been left untouched and pure.  Now, I'm the only one to have access to my computer.
Later, I upgraded to a disc SSD C, on which I put only my programs, etc.
Then, for some reason that my old spirit can not remember now, I could only do something about the Admin account and I opted for the use of this. I copied some of my important files (lots of pictures - very large files).
The SSD is now nearly full, and I realized it's because I duplicated these.
Question: Do I really NEED to have done the thing in user account to protect me - I have Kaspersky Internet Security and sit behind a firewall router?
And if I did, how I merge the two accounts so I only use the Admin account, without inadvertently deleting several files on the user account?
Any notice received with gratitude.

It is very good indeed to use a user separate daily use account and only log on to the administrator account if absolutely necessary.  Few people do it and Windows now has the means to protect even an admin user using this UAC confirmation to admin actions, but using another account is still a great way to maintain the security of your computer, so I recommend that you keep doing what you're doing.

To join the files that are stored in the two accounts and get all in one combined place, just open the C:\Users folder, take all the duplicate files you put in the two accounts and move them to the account that you are using.

The administrator account, as it is used in the case of "emergency" should essentially be empty and do not use any space.

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