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Creating a User Account in Windows 7 with picture illustrations

You must been contemplating on how you can add an account in your computer system making you to switch between them. May be you might want to create an account for your child or your friends because you don’t want them to get access to your personal data.

Here I am going to walk you through on how to overcome this problem and get you moving without any worries.

This tutorial is made for Windows 7 but the same knowledge can be applied to do the same thing in other versions of Windows.

What is a User Account?

A user account holds the data of a user and also has assignment right over the system. User accounts are of types which have different access and right by default, although the user can decide to modify these rights if they choose to at anytime.

Here we will just learn how to create an account with the types Administrator and Standard. These two types of account differ as they have different rights of access in the system which they are created.

Users can decide to create an account choosing any of these types during the creation or modify the account at later when they decide to change the account right assignment.

Sometimes a user might want to create an account that will have control in the computer, which must be contacted before any changes will take effect in the system. Or sometimes they might want to create an account which has limited priority and access in the computer system. This account will not be able to modify any system settings except it is granted access from the other account having all these controls. So whichever account a user want to create depends on how they want the account to access the system.

Create an Account Now

To create account in Windows 7, a user can simply do this with just some few steps:

Step 1

Open the Start Menu by clicking the Start Button at the bottom left side on the Task Bar of your computer by default or press the Windows Logo Key   on your keyboard if it has one. This will display the start menu, at the top right of the menu which is the right pane, click on the picture which is the current user account’s. The system will open a window that allows you to make changes to the current account.

Next, click on the second to the last command at the content side of the window which is Manage another account. The system will prompt for access credential when the type of the current account is not Administrator, if that is the case, please provide the system with the password of any administrator’s account in the system. But if the current account which want create the new user is an Administrator’s account, the system will go straight to open a new window which displays all the accounts in the system.

Since you want to create a new user account, you don’t need to click on any of the account listed in the window to proceed. Locate and click on Create a new account to proceed. The system will open another window which let you type the account name. Just type the name of the account you want to create in the box provided and labeled new account name.

Next select the account type you wish to assign for the user account by selecting the any of the radio button associated with the account type and click on Create Account. Each of the type gives a short description below it.

The account will be created and assigned the name which you typed in the box; the account will be listed in the windows containing other accounts in the system. To modify the account, click on it and it will open the account window which let you change the password, picture, type, name, delete the account, set parental control.

Setting a password

On the account window, select and click on Create a password, a window will appear to let you type the new password. Type the new password in the first box and move to the next box to type the exact one as in the first one. Next is the password Hint, though optional, password Hint reminds you of your password when you forgot them. To use a password hint type in something that will remind you the password when you lost it. Also make sure your Hint doesn’t openly review any information about your password so any other user can’t get access to the system and try to think the way you did.

Next click on Create password, the account will protected with a password which requires you to enter it anytime you want to login into the account.

Please note that passwords in Windows are Case Sensitive passwords are only recognized and matched the same way they were entered during it creation. In case sensitivity uSeR is not the same as User or UseR. Please take note of this when creating passwords for your accounts. Your password can contain mixture of numbers and alphabets with underscores and other special characters.

Always think of security when creating a password, don’t create a password that is easy to crack by other people around you.

Set your account profile picture

On the account window select Change the Picture which will open up a window that contains system images/pictures. You can actually select any of the pictures here to make the changes, but if you don’t want any of those provided, click on Browse for more pictures which will bring an open Window which let you select/choose a picture to open. Select the picture from the location where it is and click on the Open button to set the picture.

Remember that when you select any of the pictures the system provided, you must click on the Change Picture button at the bottom of the window before the picture will be changed.

Step 2
 

In this step I am just going to show another way location where you can get to the user account without clicking on the picture on the start menu, the processes are the same.

Now click to open the start menu, on the right pane of the menu, select Control Panel, when the windows opens locate and select User Accounts and Family Safety, next select the User Account and you will taken to the same environment as in the first one.

These processes are same on all editions of Windows 7.