Create New User Accounts in Windows 7

If you aren’t looking at the Manage Accounts screen now, click Start, Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove User Accounts under the heading User Accounts and Family Safety.

From the Manage Accounts screen, you can select an account to modify, or you can click Create a New Account. You’ll find that it’s best if each person who uses the computer has his or her own account so that each person’s email can be kept separate, settings and preferences can be personalized, and so on. To create a new user account, perform the following steps:

1. Click Create a New Account.

2. Type a name for the account. Use just letters, numbers, and optionally spaces or hyphens. We typically use each person’s first initial and last name, but you can use any scheme you want.

3. If you want to create a Computer Administrator account, select Administrator; otherwise, leave the selection at Standard User. I recommend that you use Standard accounts for most users, and even for your own day-to-day use.

4. Click Create Account.

The new user appears in the Manage Accounts screen. Now, you can make adjustments to each account.