From the course: Windows 10: Security

Working with local accounts in Windows 10 - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 10: Security

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Working with local accounts in Windows 10

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- [Instructor] In Windows 10, administrator accounts and standard accounts are fairly similar to previous versions of Windows. Administrator accounts can do basically anything on the computer. They can change any setting. They can install whatever they'd like to install. And they can create user accounts and change the passwords of other user accounts. Standard users are more limited. They are able to run programs that have been previously installed by someone else but they cannot install programs themselves. They could not manipulate other people's accounts. And they cannot install new hardware. Typically, if you're doing non-administrative tasks, like just checking your email or working with a spreadsheet, in that case, it's typically better to use a standard user account. And only use an administrator account when you actually need to perform an administrative task, like installing new software or manipulating accounts. Now I'd like to demonstrate to you how to add a local account to a Windows 10 PC. So off the Start menu, I'll type in users and I'll go to the option for add, edit or remove other users, which will take me to an interface that shows the current users and also allows me to add new ones. Under the other users heading, I'll click on the plus sign next to add someone else to this PC. And this will start a wizard. The first screen of the wizard wants to know the information about the user's Microsoft account. But I don't want to use a Microsoft account for this particular demonstration. So I'm going to click on the link that says I don't have this person's sign in information. That will take me to a page where it wants me to create a Microsoft account, which again is not what I'm trying to accomplish in this demonstration. So I'll go the link on the bottom that says add a user without a Microsoft account. And now I get to the interface to create a local account. I'm going to call this one TestUser. I will enter a password. Then I will enter the same password again and then it's going to have me answer some security questions. And I'll just go through these real quick. Once I'm done with that, I will click Next at the bottom and that's all there is to it. I now have a TestUser as a local account. If I click on it, I have the option to change the account type and the only choices are Standard User or Administrator. I'm going to leave it as a Standard User for now. And I would also have the option to remove the account, which I don't want to do right now but it is the same interface.

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