Local account on windows 10?

[clshades]

Made a family account for my son through the windows management system online. Complete joke, nightmare to navigate. All I want d to do was change his password.

It would just be easier to do it locally.

Is it still possible to make a local account on windows 10 without an email sign in?

 

[gingerbee]

yes you just create an offline account to my understanding

 

[anabioz]

During the initial setup, unplug the network cable.

To add a local user:
start -> cmd (right click run as admin)

# add local user clshades with password [email protected]:
net user clshades [email protected] /add

# add to local admin group:
net localgroup administrators clshades /add

# logoff
logoff

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[JD]

If you want to do it in the GUI, you can also pull up "Computer Management" then System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users, then right click, New User.

Up to you if you want to add it to the Administrators group as well afterwards, generally I would say no if it's for a family member and you already have an "admin" account.

 

[anabioz]

If you want to do it in the GUI, you can also pull up "Computer Management" then System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users, then right click, New User.

Up to you if you want to add it to the Administrators group as well afterwards, generally I would say no if it's for a family member and you already have an "admin" account.

Is it also available on the non-pro version? If I recall there were some restrictions imposed (but why?)) .

 

[crazyea]

Easiest way is just to unplug the network cable, then create the user. lol

 

[JD]

Is it also available on the non-pro version? If I recall there were some restrictions imposed (but why?)) .

I generally only use Pro & Enterprise, so I guess my information is one-sided...

I built a new Win10 Home VM though, the [email protected] with "email" for password still works to get to the local account creation during OOBE, if somebody owns that account it claimed it was locked out

I do see they removed the "Local Users and Groups" from Computer Management. Even opening MMC and adding the snapin gives an error saying it's not supported:



But going through the Windows settings still seems to have the option. You need to click "I don't have this person's sign-in information" and then "Add a user without a Microsoft account" which creates a local account.





That's a pretty odd thing to restrict/remove though. Doesn't make much sense at all nor do I really see how this improves security or anything. Considering it still lets you do "net user administrator 123" and "net user administrator /active:yes", then you can login as RID-500... if anything they should have blocked/removed the net command

Anyways, interesting none the less. Guess I'll keep this Win10 Home VM around for future comparisons!

 

[anabioz]

I generally only use Pro & Enterprise, so I guess my information is one-sided...

I built a new Win10 Home VM though, the [email protected] with "email" for password still works to get to the local account creation during OOBE, if somebody owns that account it claimed it was locked out

I do see they removed the "Local Users and Groups" from Computer Management. Even opening MMC and adding the snapin gives an error saying it's not supported:

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But going through the Windows settings still seems to have the option. You need to click "I don't have this person's sign-in information" and then "Add a user without a Microsoft account" which creates a local account.

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That's a pretty odd thing to restrict/remove though. Doesn't make much sense at all nor do I really see how this improves security or anything. Considering it still lets you do "net user administrator 123" and "net user administrator /active:yes", then you can login as RID-500... if anything they should have blocked/removed the net command

Anyways, interesting none the less. Guess I'll keep this Win10 Home VM around for future comparisons!

Want to learn something even more interesting?

SHIFT+F10 brings up hidden command prompt which you can also use to navigate during the initial setup

 

[JD]

SHIFT+F10 brings up hidden command prompt which you can also use to navigate during the initial setup

One of the oldest tricks, the next one being to pull the network cable I guess...

 

[gingerbee]

On my initial setup I had the internet plugged in and all I had to do was create an offline account when it asked for the e-mail address this was with 20H2 just the other day