Anybody can sign up for a Microsoft account for free.įor now, we’ll assume that the person you want to add has a Microsoft account. Ideally, this should be the sign-in information for their Microsoft account (such as an or address or a corporate email address at an organization that uses Outlook) so they’ll be able to use all of their existing Windows settings, get access to their OneDrive storage, and download and install apps from the Microsoft Store. First you’ll need the email address of the person for whom you want to set up an account. If you’re an administrator, setting up a user account is easy. (You can also upgrade other user accounts to administrator status, as I’ll cover later in the story.) The administrator account is established when Windows is first installed or used on the machine.
One person, the PC’s administrator, sets up and manages all the accounts, including a variety of system settings that only the administrator can access. Each person gets their own storage, applications, desktops, settings, and so on. To do it, you create separate accounts for each person who will use the computer. Windows 10 and 11 make it easy for multiple people to share the same PC. Setting up accounts for sharing a Windows 10 or 11 PC
