user account

[Tysing]

Win 10
Attempt to create a second user account ( I only have one; my administrator account) fails. From control panel I can only edit my account, but see no option to create an ordinary user account.

[Boggin]

I have Win 10 Home and only have the one default admin account and not created a MS account.

However, I worked my way through to creating a second user account but stopped short of actually creating one - but found I'd followed the exact steps as for Win 10 Enterprise users as in this article -

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/instantanswers/5de907f1-f8ba-4fd9-a89d-efd23fee918c/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10

I think it's optional whether you set a password or not, but it will only be a standard user account.

To change it to one with admin rights, this article has more info - http://www.top-password.com/blog/3-ways-to-create-new-administrator-account-in-windows-10/

Hope this helps.

[Tysing]

  Thanks a lot Boggin. Worked exactly like You said.

[Boggin]

Glad to see those helped.

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