How to Create Guest Account in Windows 10 – 3 steps

This article is about how to create Guest Account in Windows 10. Sometimes you can create a guest account so that others can access your Windows 10 computer with limited permissions.

Now this page will show you how to do that.

How to create a guest account in Windows 10

There are three main steps as below.

Step 1: Open the User Account dialog

Open the application as an administrator. Then type userpasswords2 and press Enter key. This will bring up the User Account dialog.

Open user account from cmd
Optional: You can also press Win + R hotkeys to open the Run dialog box. Then type netplwiz and press Enter key.

Run netplwiz

Step 2: Create a new user

Click on the Advanced tab. Then click the Advanced button.

Click advanced

Click User Folder in the left pane.

1. Click More Events on the right side and select New User.

A new user

In the New User dialog box, enter a username and leave the other fields blank. Open the box next to User must change password at next login.

Check the box next to User cannot change password and the box next to Password never expires.

Then click Create and Close.

Create a new guest account

Step 3: Create a Guest User Account in Windows 10

1. Right-click on the newly created user and select Properties.

Open properties

2. Select one of the tabs. Select Users and click the Remove button.

Then click the Add button.

Delete a user

3. In the Select Groups dialog box, click the Advanced button in the lower left corner.

Click the advanced button

4. Click Search Now. Select Hosts in the search results, and click OK. Go ahead and click OK twice to close the dialog box.
5. Then the user is added to the guest group and is a guest account. That’s it. You have created a guest account in Windows 10. Create a guest user account

In addition: In fact, all versions of Windows, including Windows 10, create guest accounts built into the installation process.

However, the built-in host is disabled by default and will not be available until enabled. So, you can also enable guest account installed in Windows 10.

Tip: A user who logs into Windows 10 with a guest account will not be able to access documents, install software or hardware, or make changes to the system.

Although the guest account has limited access to the computer, it can open the door to people trying to log into your computer.

Therefore, you’d better disable the built-in guest account or any new guest account on your Windows 10 computer if you don’t use it regularly.

This is also one of the reasons why Microsoft disables the guest account built into Windows by default.