Create user accounts in Accounts and Computer Management - Windows Tutorial

- [Narrator] There are several types of accounts you can create and use with Windows 10. The first is a local account, which is an account that is only valid on the local machine. Any personalizations you make with this account don't follow you when you log on to another computer. You can also create a Microsoft account for either a child or an adult. Personalizations you make here are stored in the cloud and are applied to any computer you log into using that account. Child accounts feature safety features as well. Another type of account is work or school. You might have one of these accounts if you sign in with Office 365 or other Microsoft services to access school or company resources. To access options to create these kinds of accounts, click Start, Settings, and then Accounts. What you see here depends on what kind of account you're logged in with. I'm going to assume you're connected to a local area network and that you're an Administrator. It doesn't matter right now if you're logged on with a local account or a Microsoft account though. It does matter if you're logged in with a domain account. Domain accounts are managed by domain administrators, not local ones. So if that's the case, you won't be able to create the accounts required for other users here. Because there are so many types of accounts you can create, I won't show you all of them. But there's nothing to worry about. You simply work through the wizard and input information when prompted. But to give you an idea, I'll show you how to create a simple local account. First, click Family & other users. Here, you can choose to add a family member or add someone else to this PC. I'll click this. Here's where you'll type the person sign in information if you have it. You can type in their email or phone number. I'll click I don't have this person sign in information to see what happens next. Now, I have some choices. I'm given the option to type in an email address, a phone number to get a new address, or to add a user without a Microsoft account. I'll click Add a user without a Microsoft account. Here's where I type in the username and the password. The password isn't necessary, but I will type in a username here. And I'll let Leah make her own password when she logs in. And I'll click Next. Now you can see in the new account listed here in Settings, under Family & other users. If you wanted to create an account for someone that had a Microsoft account, you would click here and continue through the process by typing their sign in information. If you're a network admin though or planning to become one, this isn't where you'll go to create accounts. You'll use Local Users and Groups, and this is available in the Computer Management console. To get there search for and then click Computer Management or right click the Start Menu and click Computer Management in the list that appears. I'll maximize this window, and I'll expand this a little bit to give us a little space. Now, expand Local Users and Groups and click Users. Let's take a look at what's here. You can see the new local account, a Guest account, and my log-in account. There's an Administrator account too, and there's Guest. The default account is managed by the system. This Utility account is used for Windows Defender. The Guest account is not enabled by default. Watch what happens if I double click. I could enable it if I wanted. Notice the description is a built in account for guest access to the computer or domain. I'll click Cancel. You can create a new account here as well. This is a better way to create an account if you're a computer administrator, because it gives you more options and finer control. To get started, right click inside the user window and click New User. Fill out the information. I'll create a username John and I won't set a password. Now, I'll make sure John creates a password at his login. And I'll click Create. I'm going to click one more user, Jane. (keyboard typing) Same thing here. And I'll click Create. When you're finished creating new users, click Close. And you'll see the new users appear. Now, double click any new user account. To change the group membership, click the Member of tab. I'm going to remove this user from the Users group by clicking users and clicking remove. Now, I'll add John to the Administrators group. And I'll click Okay. I'll do the same for Jane. And I'll put her in the Guest group. (mouse clicking) (keyboard typing) And I'll click Okay. If you'd like to see a list of groups and the users in them, click Groups in the left pane. Here's Administrators. I'll double click. And here's Guests. If you opt to put a user into one of these groups, they'll inherit the permissions for the group. Users in the Administrators group will have administrator access, and that's full control. If you put a user in the Guests group, that user when logged on only has the permission a guest would have, which is very limited access to the computer. If you want to learn more about the permissions assigned to a group, double click it again. I'll double click Users. You can see in the description that Users are prevented from making accidental or intentional system-wide changes and can run most applications. You can see Jennifer and Leah are members of the Users group. And if I double click Backup Operators, you can see that these users can override security restrictions for the sole purpose of backing up or restoring files. For the most part, at least in the beginning, you'll probably stick with Administrators and Users, and maybe Guests. But as time goes on and you become more accustomed to the available groups, you can create accounts for say remote desktop users, Hyper-V administrators, and so on. You can also create your own groups and add users to those groups, and configure your own specific permissions. You'll learn how to do that in the next movie. So, that's an overview of creating accounts. There are many types of users and accounts. Home users often use the Accounts window in Settings, but local admins often use Local Users and Groups for more granular control. If you're continuing to the next movie, leave this window open.