- Understanding User Accounts
- Setting Up a New Account on Your PC
- Switching Users
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Setting Up a New Account on Your PC
You create one user account when you first launch Windows on your new PC. At any time you can create additional user accounts for other people using your computer.
Set Up a New User with a Microsoft Account
By default, Windows will use an existing Microsoft Account to create your new Windows user account. So if you have an Outlook.com, Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, Xbox Live, Windows Phone, or other Microsoft account, you can use that account to sign into Windows on your computer.
From the Start screen, press Windows+C to display the Charms Bar.
Click or tap Settings to display the Settings panel.
Click or tap Change PC Settings to display the PC Settings page.
Click or tap Accounts in the left column to display the Accounts page.
Click or tap Other Accounts in the left column.
Click or tap the Add a User button to display the How Will This User Sign In? page.
Enter the person’s email address into the Email Address box. If this person currently has a Microsoft Account, such as an Outlook.com or Xbox Live account, use that email address for that account.
Click or tap the Next button.
If the email address you entered is not for a Microsoft account, you’ll be prompted to set up a Microsoft account. Enter the desired password into the New Password and Reenter Password boxes.
Enter the person’s name into the First Name and Last Name boxes.
Enter the person’s ZIP Code into the ZIP Code box.
Click the Next button.
When prompted to add security information, enter this person’s birthdate, phone number, and alternate email address.
Choose a secret question and enter an answer for it.
Click the Next button.
Choose whether you want to let Microsoft Advertising use your account information and whether you want to receive promotional offers from Microsoft. (You probably don’t want to do either.)
Enter the indicated characters into the bottom box.
Click the Next button.
Click the Finish button.
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Set Up a New User with a Local Account
If a new user does not have an existing Microsoft Account of any kind and does not want one, or if the user only needs access to this particular PC, you can create a local account for this person.
- Follow the instructions in the previous section until you get through step 6.
- Go to the bottom of the screen and click or tap Sign In Without a Microsoft Account.
- Click or tap the Local Account button.
- Enter the desired username into the User Name box.
- Enter the desired password into the Password box and then type it into the Reenter Password box.
- Enter some sort of hint about the password into the Password Hint box.
- Click or tap the Next button.
- Click or tap the Finish button on the final screen.
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