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Adding local accounts to a Windows 10 PC

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Adding local accounts to a Windows 10 PC

- [Instructor] Now let's look at setting up a local account that's not a domain account and not a Microsoft account. This account will live only on this PC and somewhat uncommon that you would want to do this but if you have a machine that's not connected to a domain and not connected to the internet, you might need to do this. So off the Start menu, I'll go to Settings, Accounts, other user, I'll click on the plus sign next to add someone else to this PC. And again I'll be given the interface where it would like me to type in the email address of the Microsoft accounts. But at the bottom, it does give me the option I don't have this person's sign in information. If I click on that, the first thing I get is an interface where it would like me to create an account. So if you don't have a Microsoft account and would like to create one you can do that from this interface, but that's not the goal of this demo. What we were trying to do is exactly what is the very bottom option, add a user…

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