To begin select Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. This process brings you to the screen where you add new users. The standard new user will be part of your family. If you and a roommate share a PC you may want to differentiate by listing your roommate’s account in the “other people” section. First, let’s add a family member. Under the sub-heading “Your family” click Add a family member. Adult accounts, on the other hand, are just regular private user accounts. Again they are tied to a Microsoft account (you can also create a local account for an adult), but they have normal privileges and access to the full range of apps on a desktop PC. Adult accounts can manage child accounts, but do not have administrator privileges for making changes on the PC. That can be added later, however. Once you’ve added the email address, click Next, and on the following screen make sure you’ve entered the email address correctly and click Confirm. Once that person accepts that invitation, he or she will be able to manage child accounts and view activity reports online. Whatever the situation is get started by going once again to Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. Now, under the sub-heading “Other people” click Add someone else to this PC. After that, you’ll be good to go. The new account is all set-up. The one thing to note is the first time this user signs in to the PC they will have to be connected to the internet. Click Set up assigned access at the bottom of the account management screen at Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. But that’s really not useful for an actual person who needs to use the PC. One exception to that rule could be when you actually want your home PC to be a public terminal. Let’s say, for example, you want guests at your next party to be able to select the music playing on your PC. But you’re nervous about allowing everyone in attendance the chance to access the personal files on your PC. Creating an assigned access account that only uses Groove Music would offer a solution that prevents nosy people from poking around your PC, while still offering free access to your Groove Music Pass subscription. To elevate a user in Windows 10, type in “user accounts” into the Cortana search box. Then select the Control Panel option that appears at the top of the results. The easiest way to delete an account is to go to Start > Settings > Accounts > Family & other people. Then select the user you want to get rid of. If the user is under the family section you’ll see two buttons: Change account type and Block. Choose Block. The one thing to remember about the Block option for family is that you can quickly reinstate the account on your PC by selecting the user’s account. Then click Allow to permit that user to access the PC again as part of the family group. Once you’re ready to delete the account click Delete account and data. That’s it. The account is now deleted. Once the Control Panel opens to the User Accounts section click Manage another account, and then in the next screen select the user you want to get rid of. Now we’re on the screen where you can manage the account in question. To the left of the user account picture, you’ll see several options. The one we want to select is, you guessed it, Delete the account. Even if you do decide to keep the files it’s helpful to back those files up to an external hard drive before deleting the account just in case something goes wrong. After you click Delete Account you’ll be returned to the user screen in the Control Panel and you’ll see that your local account is no longer there.
