How to Create a Guest Account in the Latest Version of Windows 10

If you are using the most recent version of Windows 10 , you may have noticed that you cannot create guest accounts like you used to. Here is a way to solve this problem.

For reasons unknown, Microsoft quietly removed the ability to create guest accounts in Windows 10 around the middle of last year . Guest permission systems still work, but there is no longer the option to create new guest accounts in Control Panel. Luckily, you can add your own with a few simple commands. To do this, open a command prompt as administrator and follow these steps:

1. Enter net user Visitor /add /active:yes to create a new account. You can replace Visitor with any name, but remember to change it for each command in this list. “Guest” is reserved by Windows.
2. Enter net user Visitor * to create a password for the account.
3. Press Enter twice to create a blank password.
4. Enter net localgroup users Visitor /delete to remove a visitor from the regular users group.
5. Enter net localgroup guests Visitor /add to add the visitor to the guests user group.

And now you have a new guest account! This account will have the same privileges as the old guest accounts. Hopefully Microsoft will return the correct interface for this option in the future.

Superuser via Laptop Mag

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