Windows 10 It brought with it a huge amount of new features, although it also deprived us of a functionality that many of us used on a large number of occasions. We are talking about the possibility of creating guest accounts, with which anyone could access our computer, for example, without us having to worry about almost anything.
These guest accounts allowed you to browse the network of networks, run applications and programs or files, but they did not allow you to install new programs or access files saved in other sessions. If you miss this type of Windows 10 account, today we will explain you in a simple way how to create a guest account in Windows 10.
How to create a guest account in Windows 10
The first step in creating a guest account in Windows 10 will be to open a Command Prompt window. Now follow the next steps;
- Type in the search box cmd
- Click with the right mouse button on the first result that if nothing has failed it should be "Command Prompt" and then Run as administrator
- Now type the following command and hit the Enter key; net user Visitor / add / active: yes (With this command, we are baptizing our new guest account. Curiously, you can call this account whatever you want except Guest. For example, we have called it Visitor)
- With the following command you will be able to put a password to this account; net user Visitor *
- In the event that you do not want to put a password, it will be enough to hit the Enter twice
- If you want to delete this Guest account that we just created or when it will no longer be used, you just have to type the following command and hit Enter; net localgroup users Visitor / delete
- Finally, we must add the account to the group of Guest users and press Enter; net localgroup guests Visitor / add
With this we will be able to create a standard local user account, but by eliminating it from the specific Users group and adding it to the Guest group as we did in the last step, we managed to revoke most of the usual privileges.
This account that we have just created will have the same characteristics of the old guest accounts that we could create for example in Windows 8. No one will be able to access our files with it, they will not be able to change the device configuration and they will not be able to install any program no matter how much one strives.
How to remove guest account from Windows 10
Finally, we do not want to stop telling you how to delete the Windows 10 guest account that we just created, in the event that you are not going to use it anymore or that you have created it by a simple error. For this you must go to Settings and access Accounts. In families and other people you must select the Guest account and click on the remove button.
Without a doubt in Windows 10 it is much easier to delete a Guest account than to create it, but it seems that Microsoft does not want visitors on our devices no matter how much they have our permissions.
Has it been easy for you to create a guest account in Windows 10 even though there is no easy and simple option to do it?.