- [Instructor] When you turn on a Windows computer,
you start here at the sign-in screen.
You can click on this screen and then you'll need
to type in your password or your PIN
to sign into your user account.
Your user account is where all of your files
and configurations are stored.
And if you share a computer with another person,
you might want to set up multiple user accounts.
To do that, we'll need to go to Settings.
So I'll go to the Start menu and I'll open up Settings.
And we'll start by going to the Accounts category
over here on the left.
And we can see some information about my account here.
And we can see that I am an administrator.
There are two types of users,
administrators and standard users.
There are several system settings
that only administrators are allowed to control.
And if you only have one user account like I do here,
it will be an administrator account.
And since I am an administrator,
I have the ability to make a user account
for another person.
And I'll be able to decide if they have
administrator privileges or not.
To make a user account for another person,
we'll go to the subsection for Family & other users,
then where it says Other users, we'll click Add account.
Now, at the beginning of this course,
we talked about the different types of logins
that you can set up.
You should go back to that video
if you don't know about the different types of accounts.
If you want this user to sign in
with a Microsoft Online account that they already have,
you can just put in their email address here.
If you don't have that, you can click where it says
I don't have this person's sign in information
and then you could create a new Microsoft Online account,
or you can add a user with a standard username and password
without a Microsoft Online account.
So that's what I'm going to do here.
I'll select that option.
And of course, I need to put in the person's name,
then I'll need to put in a password for that person.
This is the main password that they will use
to sign into the computer.
Then scrolling down a bit, it will make you set
some security questions.
In case you forget your password,
it will ask you one of these questions
to prove you are who you say you are.
So I'll just fill in some stuff here.
Once you have all that filled in, you can click Next.
And now you can see, I have that new user account.
I can click on it to see more information
and I want to click here where it says Change account type.
By default, a new user account will not be an administrator,
it will be a standard user.
But you can change that if you want here.
I'm going to leave it set as a standard user
and then I'll click OK.
Also, we have the option to completely remove
a user account from here.
Of course, only an administrator can do that.
Just be careful.
If you delete another user's account,
that will delete all of the files
that that user has saved in their home folder.
This is a big deal, so don't do this
unless you're really sure.
Okay, so I want to see this new account in action.
So first I need to sign out of the account
that I'm currently using.
So I can go to the Start menu and click down here
at the bottom where I see my name.
That opens a little sub menu and I'll choose Sign out.
That takes us back to that sign in screen that you see
when you turn on the computer.
Of course, I could click here and I could just sign
into my account with my PIN
or I could go down here to the left
and choose a different user account
now that I have multiple accounts set up.
So I'll choose the account for John
and then I'll put in his password.
Now, if it's the first time you're signing
into a new account,
there will be some introductory screens
and you'll probably need to answer some questions.
I don't want to wait for this.
We're just going to skip forward in time
after these screens have passed.
And now I'm signed into this new account.
Notice how the desktop background is different.
All of the settings are different for each user
and each user has their own files.
So if we go to File Explorer, earlier in this course,
we talked about the home folder.
You can go to the main system drive,
into the folder called Users,
and we can see a home folder here for my original account
and another one for the new user account
that we just set up.
You are only able to open the home folder
for the account that you are signed into.
So let's open the home folder for this account.
And this is where that user will store their files.
Their documents, their pictures, their videos,
all of their files separate
from the other users on this computer.
And the shortcuts over on the sidebar
will lead to those folders in the user's home folder.
Just remember, this is a standard user,
so there will be some limits.
If you need to add more users or make changes
to existing accounts, you will need to sign in
as the administrator.
But from now on,
whenever you need to go to a different account,
you can sign out of one account
and you can sign into another.
And this lets you share a computer with somebody else
while keeping all of your files and settings separate.