The article will discuss how to create a Microsoft account, how to register a user in Windows 10. What are the benefits of an account.
It is worth noting that you can access your Windows 10 computer using not only your local account, but also your Microsoft account. While the Microsoft account makes it much easier to work with Windows 10, each of the two types of accounts has a different purpose in the operating system.
- Microsoft account... Required to access most Microsoft services; it consists of an email address and a password. Users with such an account can save their work files to a special Microsoft online storage - OneDrive. In addition, it is used when downloading applications from the online store and for parental control.
- Local account... Great for people who prefer to use traditional Windows-based software that runs from the desktop. However, you won't be able to access the OneDrive cloud service with it. You also won't be able to use it to download applications from the Windows electronic store. See article: How to create a user on Windows 10
Create a Microsoft account
The easiest way to create an account is on the Microsoft website: https://login.live.com/. You can register from any computer, from any browser. The second way to create a Microsoft account is by using the Create New User window. Fill in the information about yourself and click Next.
When creating a Microsoft account, be sure to indicate the correct phone number, otherwise when you log in to the system, when you are asked to confirm the phone number by sending an SMS with a special code to it, you will not be able to do this.
Click on the link below and you will be redirected to one of the Microsoft sites where you can create a separate account. When registering, you can use any mailing address, not necessarily the address of the Microsoft services. Enter the address of your working mailbox, create a password and that's it! You have become a registered Microsoft user.
You can also create an account on a Windows 10 computer. To do this, go to Settings >> Accounts to Accounts >> Email Address, Application Accounts >> Add Account.
In the next window, you need to select the type of Account. In our case, if we want to create a Microsoft account - Outlook.com, Live.com ....
How to switch to a Microsoft account
If you need to switch to a Microsoft account (for example, if you decide to use Family Safety), then under Your Account, click the Sign in with a Microsoft account link instead. The system will ask you to enter your e-mail and password to enter. Please note that this window also includes a Create one link if you don't already have a Microsoft account.
After that, the system will ask you to enter your old password (from a regular account). Next, the system will offer to set a PIN code. You can do this, or you can click the Skip this step link to continue using your password to log in to the system. Then log out of the system. When you sign in, you will be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft account.
If you need to switch back to your regular local account, open the Settings window, go to the Accounts section, Your account. Follow the link Sign in with a local account instead.
Then follow the instructions. You will be asked to enter a password, but from a Microsoft account, and then - register a local account, because when you switch to a remote account, the old (local) one is replaced by the new (from Microsoft).
Good day!
In the new Windows 10, there are two types of accounts: local and Microsoft (the latter is highly recommended by developers). I think you have noticed this many times ...
In general, a reasonable question that many will ask: "Why is it needed at all, why is it better than a local account?" ... Below are the main Benefits Microsoft account that will clear up this "fog":
- the ability to work with their documents, address book, files, settings etc. from any computer (with Windows 10) connected to the Internet (mega-convenient!);
- possibility of using many applications: Skype (program for talking over the network). (cloud drive), Office 365 (editor for text, tables, etc.), etc .;
- the ability to create baby accounts, and limit the operating time and consumed content (more on this);
- possibility of using app store(Microsoft Store);
- access to email from any PC and mobile gadgets connected to the Internet;
- after reinstalling the system on the computer - you can return everything to working order much faster (you just need to enter your account details);
- if you change any parameters of your account, they will automatically change on all your PCs (and other devices) using this account (those. full synchronization on the Internet).
In general, it is very convenient ?! In my opinion, Microsoft is following the path of "personal ID / record / profile" that can be used both on home devices and at work. Probably, they will soon bind it to some bank card, and in order to work with their data, it will be enough to present it to any PC ...
And so, okay, enough of the lyrics, let's get down to business ...
How to create a Microsoft account
In this article, I will assume that you do not have an account and have never had one (i.e. you have not registered with various services from Microsoft before). Just some of the steps below, you might be able to skip (if, say, during registration, Microsoft informs you that the profile has already been created earlier and you can use it) ...
STEP 1
Microsoft official website:
First you need to go to the official Microsoft website and click on the "Sign in" link in the corner of the screen (it doesn't matter if you have an account or not).
Note: you can create an account from any computer! It is not necessary to sit at the one for which you want to use it later.
Login (screen of the official Microsoft website)
Then enter your email address (a confirmation code will be sent to it later) and click "Next".
Note! If you don't have a work email, I recommend creating one:
- if your mail has already been used in some services from Microsoft - then, perhaps, the service will inform you that your account has already been created earlier, and you can use it;
- if the mail has not been used anywhere, the service will offer to create a new account (as in my case in the screenshot below). We press the button.
STEP 3
Enter your password (it will be used to access your account), your date of birth, first and last name. I recommend entering reliable information, because after starting work (if suddenly there is a problem with the entrance) - you may have to confirm your data.
The three screenshots below are given as an example.
STEP 4
Next, you need to open your mail (which you used during registration), find a letter from Microsoft and enter the code from it into the registration form. By the way, the letter will come in Russian, in general, everything is clear in it, so I will not comment on it separately ...
An example is shown below.
STEP 5
Confirm that the registration is carried out by a person: just enter the letters and numbers presented in the small picture (captcha).
STEP 6
After creating an account, try to log in to the site. If you succeed in logging in (a blue circle "lights up" in the corner, as in the screenshot below), your account is ready for further use.
STEP 7
Now on the computer on which you want to work with this account, you need to open Windows Settings and add it to the list of allowed.
You will need administrator rights.
To do this, press the combination of buttons Win + i, open the section "Accounts -> Family and Other People " , press the button (see screen below).
In the next step, specify the type of account: adult or child (note: restrictions may apply for a child).
After that, a message will be sent to the mail (e-mail) of the account (which we are adding) that "such and such" user can join the work (you just need to agree with the proposal).
Actually, after that, under this account, you can go to this PC and work. How to do it - I'll tell you in a couple of lines below.
STEP 8
To start working under a different account in Windows 10 - first log out. In Windows 10, this can be done by right-clicking on the START menu (see example below).
Alternative option: You can press the Win + L key combination.
STEP 9
Next, a welcome window will appear (which you always see when starting Windows). In the bottom left corner, multiple users will be presented (depending on how many accounts you add). In general, to work with one of them - just select it and click the "Login" button (Please note that you will also need a password to log in!) .
If this is your first login under this account, you will have to wait a few minutes while the basic parameters are configured and configured.
In general, after that you will see the most ordinary desktop (as in the photo below) - you can start working!
That's all for now.
Criticism on the topic is welcome ...
Even entries are directly related to the topic of PC administration, and for any network administrator, knowing about this is "his daily bread." By creating a new user account, you will receive a separate and individualized account that has its own access rights to objects stored on the hard disk, applications installed on the PC, and the desktop. There are two types of accounts in Windows 10: global (or Microsoft accounts) and local. The local account can be used only on the computer on which it was created, it can be entered into it, and it does not have the functions of synchronizing user data between different computers from which the system was logged in. Microsoft account Windows 10 on the contrary, it has the functions of synchronizing user data between several computers from which the operating system was logged in (this means exclusively Microsoft applications - Skype, Outlook, OneDrive, etc.). It can be used from any Windows computer and is protected by a strong password. To enter it, you just need to enter your username or phone number. If desired, a local account can be converted to a Microsoft account, and vice versa. In this article, I will only talk about a secure Microsoft account, using a local account is quite simple, and it does not take a lot of time to figure it out.
Microsoft Windows 10 account - how to create it
Let's create a new Microsoft account in Windows OS. To do this, you need to open the start menu "Start" and select the new icon "Settings" in it. It is here that all the Windows 10 settings are concentrated, which appeared, exclusively starting with this version of the system from Microsoft.
In the parameters menu, go to the "Accounts" subsection, where we can manage all accounts in detail, set privileges and authentication methods. In the presented section, select the item "Family and other people".
As you can see, the presented form is divided into 2 parts: in the upper section of the "Your family" window, you can add new users who are members of your family. These can be both administrators and regular users or children, to whom the parental control functions are applicable. At the bottom of the "Other people" window, you can add users who are not related to your family, but whom you want to provide access to the system. Accordingly, they can also be both local and global (i.e., with a Microsoft account).
In order for a Microsoft Windows 10 account to be created, you need to have an administrator account, and with a Microsoft account, respectively. If you log into the top ten from a local account, Windows will identify you as a local user, and, therefore, the means for generating a new account will be unavailable.
Well, suppose you are logged into the system with a Microsoft account and visited the "Family and other people" section in the "Accounts" category. Let's try to generate an account for a new member of the family. Click on the "Add family member" control.
The window for selecting the user you want to add appears. You can choose between an adult account or a child account. We select the type of account and enter the email address of the new user. Important point: before creating a new Microsoft account, you must add an email account for it. In addition to visiting Outlook.com and registering a mailbox through a browser, you can do the same by clicking the "User I want to add does not have email" button.
At the next iteration, the system offers to add a user with a new email account to the list of allowed logins on the active device and in the list of your family members. We confirm our decision and proceed further.
So, by clicking the "Confirm" button, an invitation is sent to the email address of the specified user to be added to the family members on your work computer. Now we need to agree with this decision by going to the e-mail box and clicking the “Accept” button in the received letter.
We go to e-mail and accept the invitation.
Now the new user has been added to the list of allowed logins on your computer. You can verify this by looking again at the "Family and other people" form and finding that the account for the child is fully active and available for use.
What additional privileges will a new user added as a child have?
- first of all, the management of the financial activities of the account. It is possible to transfer some financial amounts to the child's account so that he can make small purchases in the Xbox and Windows online stores without having a credit card;
- in addition to this, you will have the right to study the actions carried out by children on the active device, what programs they purchased and what queries they asked in the search engine;
- similar to the previous ability - limiting the duration of work on the active device for users added as children;
- the last of the most significant features is the ability to track the location of a child on a map if he has a smart device with Windows 10 preinstalled.
A user who is not a member of your family is added in a completely similar way. For it, you can also add both a local account without the synchronization function with the server, and a Microsoft account. The methodology is completely the same as in the case of a family member: we create an email account, add it as an account identifier and log into the system under it. It also uses a Microsoft Windows 10 account.
By default, when creating a new user, he has the rights of a standard user. But to install new applications and change operating system settings, you will most likely need administrator privileges. Below I will tell you how to get admin rights on a computer running Windows 10.
Go to the above settings form in the same section "Family and other people" and select the user, the type of account for which you plan to change. At the bottom there is a control "Change account type" - click on it.
In the Windows 10 account type menu, change the account permissions from "Standard" to "Administrator", thereby granting the maximum rights to the selected user.
To log into the system under a new account, just click on the "Start" button and select from the list of active users the one under which you want to log into the operating system.
An alternative way is to log out of the system and specify a new username and password on the authentication form.
How do I create an account using the control userpasswords2 command?
Let's use the sequence of buttons
As a result of entering the command, the "User accounts" window will appear on the display, where all the accounts installed in the system are available. To add a new account, use the "Add" button.
After clicking the corresponding button, a pop-up form appears with a proposal to enter the name of the mailbox that you would like to register for a new user.
Of course, the system assumes that the email account has already been created previously, otherwise it is proposed to create it from scratch by clicking the "Register a new email address" button. In all other respects, the procedure for registering a new account in the top ten does not differ at all from the previously described algorithm, so problems should not arise.
How do I delete my Microsoft account?
Let's go into the same rig, which was discussed in the previous section of our instructions. After selecting the account to be deleted here, click the "Delete" button under the list of accounts under the user's control.
How do I reset my Microsoft account password?
After connecting to an active account under your login, go to the OS configuration window, then to the Accounts section, and then select the Login Parameters subcategory. To change the password of an active active account in the "Password" section, click the "Change" button, and then carefully follow the advice of the built-in wizard.
Microsoft Account Windows 10 is a powerful mechanism for authenticating to Windows 10 services as well as Xbox Live. Having created an e-mail box once, later you will be able to control all the services to which you have connected, freely add new users, both related to your family and third parties, as well as use parental control for children's accounts, carefully protecting your child from unnecessary information and external sites with violent adult content. If such opportunities are too cumbersome for you, you can always create a local account and use it only from your computer without synchronization with Microsoft servers.
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But first, let's figure out why it is needed. The thing is that the largest software company Microsoft has collected in one place a lot of useful services and services. And to get access to them, you need to register once. This procedure is free of charge.
A Microsoft account is the email address and password you use to sign in to Windows. By signing in to your computer or other device with your Microsoft account, you can download apps from the Windows Store, back up all your important data using the free cloud storage on OneDrive, and update and sync everything you need - devices, contacts, media. etc. It will also open access to services such as Outlook.com, Messenger, Skype, Windows Phone, Xbox.
Create a Microsoft account
Go to the official Microsoft website using this link and register. We fill in all the form fields.
In the “Username” box, enter your email address. Also come up with a strong password. In order to improve the protection of the account, we drive in your phone number, then enter the captcha. Then we press “Create an account”. A letter from Microsoft will be sent to the specified e-mail box with a request to confirm the email address. By doing this, a new account will be created.
Very often, users who have bought a smartphone with the Windows Phone operating system are faced with the problem of creating a valid phone account to access all of its functions. This tutorial will show you how you can quickly and effortlessly create a Windows Live ID for your smartphone. Windows Live ID is an identification and authentication service provided by Windows Live. Used for single sign-on on all Microsoft network services, for synchronizing contacts, downloading games and applications, and much more.
It is worth noting that all phone settings, as well as personal files, will be synchronized with this account. If you forget your password and cannot recover it, you will have to reset your phone. There are two ways to create a Windows Live ID, and it's up to you which one to choose.
Ways to create a Windows Live ID
1.From a computer, if the Internet is available. You can create an account using an existing mail, for example [email protected], as well as you can create a completely new mail, which will be your account.
2. Create an account when you turn on your phone for the first time. To create an account in this way, you must have an active Internet connection via Wi-Fi or via a cellular network, after the phone is fully turned on.
Registration to your E-mail
Step 1. First, you need to go to the site where you register a Microsoft account, to the mailbox that you created earlier, on other mail services. After going to the site, you will see many fields that you need to fill out. Be sure to specify the age over 18, otherwise you will not be able to download anything from the app store later and you will have to configure "Parental Control".
In fact, there are not so many fields to fill in, the main thing is to fill them all carefully, and most importantly, indicate your real phone number and your data. This is required in order to restore access to the mailbox in case of hacking, theft or loss of passwords!
Step 2. After you fill out all the fields, you need to go through an email verification to make sure that you really own this mailbox. Check your inbox and follow the instructions in the email to complete the setup of your Microsoft account.
Registration for a specific mailbox has come to an end. You see the final page confirming that you have successfully registered your new Windows Live ID account. You just have to click the "OK" button and you will be redirected to your personal account page. Now, you can safely enter a new Windows Live ID account on your phone.
Congratulations, you have just registered your own Windows Live ID, which you will need to use your Windows Phone smartphone. This identifier serves so that you can log in to all Microsoft network services, synchronize contacts, download games, applications and much more!
Registration of a new E-mail
Step 2. You must indicate a phone number, which can also be thought of by guessing, but it is better to indicate a valid number, since in case you suddenly forget your password, you could easily recover it. Now it remains to enter the verification code correctly.
Enter it very carefully so as not to register Windows Live ID many times, because sometimes the page refreshes spontaneously due to incorrect captcha input. After you fill in all the fields, it remains to click the "Create an account" button and automatically transfer it to your personal account page.
Congratulations, you have just registered your own Windows Live ID, which you will need to use your Windows Phone smartphone. This identifier serves so that you can log in to all Microsoft network services, synchronize contacts, download games, applications and much more!
