How to create a user account in Windows

Windows user accounts will allow several different people to access the same Windows computer, but each one will use the files corresponding to its user. Thus, a personalized experience can be provided to users even though they are using a single computer. We are going to teach you how to create a user account in several different editions of Windows, so that you can use your home computer as the work center of the other members of your house, without different people having access to the personal files of others in an excessively easy way.

Create a user account in Windows 8.1

1. We open the Holo context menu on the right side, or we go to the Control Panel to access the «Settings» menu.
2. We click on «Accounts»To scroll to the« Other accounts »function.
3. Tap or click «Add a account»(We must have a Microsoft account, with Hotmail or Outlook, it is okay).
4. Enter a username and password for the new account, this will increase the level of security on the computer. Obviously it will ask us for a "password hint".
5. We will only have to click next to store the user.
6. Click on «Finalize" and you are done with user creation.

Create a user account in Windows 7

1. Open the "Start Menu" and type in the search box: "mmc" (without quotation marks). Then press Enter.
2. What is known as the Microsoft Management Console will open, now just click on "users".
3. In the left pane of Microsoft Management Console, click Local Users and Groups.
4. We click on the «Users» folder and then go to «New User«.
5. Enter the appropriate information in the dialog box, then click Create.

The alternative method is to access from the Control Panel, the "user administrator" will appear on the left side band and we can create or delete users if we are using the team administrator account.

User account in Windows 10

Here we are also going to require a Microsoft account to log in in the usual way.

1. We go to the start menu.
2. Click on the function of «Configuration»(The tile with a gear drawn).
3. We access the submenu «Accounts«.
4. There we have the function «Family and other users», we can now add members of our family or other external users.