Guest account on Windows 10, how to enable it?

If you have a visitor that needs to use your PC, you might want to consider using a guest account. Guest account is a special kind of account that comes with many limitations that will prevent the guest from accessing your personal files, installing new applications and changing your settings. Regarding the limitations, Guest account doesn’t have a password and the password can’t be set for this account. Also, Guest account won’t be able to install applications so you don’t have to worry about a guest installing unwanted or potentially malicious apps on your PC. While Guest will have access to your installed applications, it will be able to access only those apps that were installed on your PC when the Guest account was created. Guest account doesn’t allow any customization, and it can’t change its name, picture or account type. This keeps Guest account safely locked from gaining full access from your PC. In addition, Guest account can’t change any settings regarding itself or other users. This feature will also protect your sensitive files and your privacy since Guest account can’t access your libraries or user folders. Guest account also has limited power when it comes to creating folders, and it can only create files and folders on Desktop or on its user folder. Unlike regular account, Guest account won’t be able to create files anywhere on your PC. Lastly, Guest account can only be enabled or disabled by administrator. As you can see, Guest account can be an extremely useful feature, especially if you have visitors or other family members that need to quickly use your PC to check something online. Although this feature was present in previous versions of Windows, Microsoft did some changes and made this feature a bit harder to access in Windows 10, however, you can still enable it by using one of our solutions.

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How to – Enable Guest account on Windows 10

Solution 1 – Create new Guest account using Command Prompt In previous versions of Windows you could create a Guest account easily just as any other account, but with Windows 10 Microsoft decided to make some changes and it almost removed this feature. There is still a way to create a Guest account on your Windows 10 PC, but it requires that you use Command Prompt to create a new user and add that user to Guests group. This is a relatively simple process, and you should be able to do it by following these steps: After doing that, close Command Prompt and you should have a new Visitor account that has limited privileges of a Guest account. If you want to use the Guest account, simply log in to Visitor account and the Visitor account should work completely as a Guest account.

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Solution 2 – Use Local Group Policy Editor Certain versions of Windows 10 come with Group Policy Editor tool that allows you change all sorts of advanced Windows settings. Using this feature you can also enable Guest account by following these steps: After enabling this option in Group Policy Editor you should be able to access Guest account without any problems on Windows 10. Solution 3 – Use Computer Management Computer Management is another Windows application that allows you to change various settings and view all sorts of important information regarding your PC. You can use this application to change user account settings, but you can also disable or enable Guest account by using this tool. To do that, follow these steps: After disabling this option Guest account should be available on your Windows 10 PC. Few users also suggest that you need to restart your PC once you make changes to Computer Management, so be sure to try that as well.

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Solution 4 – Use Local Users and Groups tool SPONSORED You can also add a new Guest user to your PC by using Local Users and Groups tool. This solution is similar to Solution 1, but unlike Solution 1 it doesn’t require that you use Command Prompt. Using Command Prompt might be a faster solution, but if you’re a basic user, you can create a new Guest account by following these steps:

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Visitor account will now be added to your PC and you should be able to use it without any problems. As we already mentioned, you can do the exact same procedure by using Command Prompt. Using Command Prompt is a faster solution, so you might want to consider using it instead. If you’re not comfortable using Command Prompt, you can use this solution to achieve the same results. Solution 5 – Enable Guest account using Command Prompt We already showed you how to create a new account and how to add it to the Guests group, but few users claim that you can enable Guest account simply by using Command Prompt. To do that, you need to follow these steps: According to users, Guest account is just disabled, and you can enable it simply by using this command. Few users reported that this method might not work until you make one more change in Local Group Policy Editor. Even if you enable Guest account by using Command Prompt, you won’t be able to log in to it due to certain policy. Fortunately, you can change this setting easily by following these steps:

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As you can see, you can’t log in to Guest account on Windows 10 by default, but after enabling this account from Command Prompt and after changing your Local Group Policy, you should be able to access it without any issues. Solution 6 – Create a new user account and change its account type According to users, you can fix this problem simply by creating a new user account and changing its account type. This is a very simple procedure and you can perform it by following these steps: After creating a new user account, you need to change its account type. By default, all created accounts are added to the Users group which gives them full access to your PC. Since we don’t want that, we need to change the account type by following these steps: After doing that, you should have a Visitor account that has the same privileges as Guest account. As you can see, Guest account is an extremely useful feature to have, and we’re not sure why did Microsoft remove support for this feature. If you still want to use Guest account on your Windows 10 PC, be sure to try some of our solutions. READ ALSO:

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