Create a local user account | IT Services

When using a shared device in your home it is best practise to create a new local user account for your work activity to help you protect university data.

Please note this guide only applies to personal devices. DO NOT attempt to perform these steps on a university provided Laptop or Computer.

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Select the Start button, select Settings > Accounts and then select Family & other users. (In some editions of Windows, you'll see Other users.)

Select Add someone else to this PC.

Select I don't have this person's sign-in information, and on the next page, select Add a user without a Microsoft account.

Enter a username, password, password hint or choose security questions, and then select Next.

Under Settings > Accounts > Family & other users, select the account owner name, then select Change account type.

Under Account type, select Administrator and OK.

Sign in with the new administrator account.