Transcript for:
Creating a New User Account in Windows 11

hey guys in this video i'm going to show you how you can set up a new user account on your windows 11 operating system so let's get started and let's see how we can do it so first of all what you can do is you can just right click on your windows icon so just right click on your windows icon and then click on settings here okay so right click on your windows icon and then click on settings and then click on accounts section here okay so once you click on account section you will be able to see all these options you need to click on this option which says family and other users okay so i'm going to just click on this option now here you can add a family member or you can add other user okay so in this case you want to add the other user now before adding the other user let me show you how you can reach the same point using the different method so if you somehow don't see this settings option when you right click on your windows icon this is that right click and not the left click right then you just need to click on the search bar here and here you just need to click on these three dots and then you just need to click on search settings so just click on search settings and once you click on search settings again you will be able to see uh this kind of section where you can just click on accounts okay so once you click on account as i said just click on family and other users and then if you want to add a family member click on this option and if you want to add other user click on this option so i'm going to add other user so i'm going to click on add account which is going to open this kind of interface right now this window is saying that we need to use the microsoft account in order to create a new user account but i don't want to use my microsoft account in order to create a new user account so i'm going to click on this link which says i don't have this person's sign-in information which is going to open the next window and then what you can do you can click on this option which says add a user without a microsoft account okay so i'm going to just click on the last option and here i'm going to just add the new user information now before adding a new user information let me show you how many users right now i have on my windows operating system so when you click on the windows icon you will be able to see the usernames here so the list of usernames will appear here at the bottom so right now i only have one user so i can see only one user which is cb this i can also verify by just going to the search bar and then search for control panel and once the control panel opens just click on change account type and here i can see the list of all the users which this windows 11 pc have right now i only have one user right so now i'm going to create a new user so as i said here you just need to give the new username in this window so i'm going to just say user 2 and then you just need to give his password so i'm going to provide a very simple password here and then retype the password and then in case you forget the password you just need to answer security questions so you can choose anything i'm going to just uh add random values here you can just answer these questions accordingly and then just click on next here and you can see this user has been added now in order to just sign in with the new user credentials what you need to do you just need to click on the windows icon and now you can see you have this user 2 option here ok so you will see the list of all the users here so in order to sign in with the new user account you can either click on user 2 or click on sign out and then log in with the user to account so let me click on the sign out option so let me click on the sign out option here which is going to sign me out and once i'm signed out or logged out of my account i can see two user accounts here right so this is the user account which i have created recently so i can just log in with this user credentials by just clicking on this user and once i have given my password for the user to i will just click on submit which is going to log me in with the new user account now at this point it will take some time to create a new user account you can see it's saying getting things ready for you and it's going to take few minutes so just wait for some time and now at this point it says let microsoft and the app use the location i don't want to use the location so i will just click on no and then accept you can see this option send diagnostic data to microsoft include optional requested only so i'm going to just click on this one and then click on accept and then i will click on no and then click on accept and then i don't want to send anything so no except no accept and now i'm logged in with my new user account so now as you can see here i have this user which i have created and i'm logged in with this user account right so in order to once again log in with cb i can just click on this which is going to log me out and then i can just once again login with my main account so this is how you can create a new user account on your windows 11 operating system i hope you've enjoyed this video and i will see you in the next video