Managing local users
In this section, we will look at the local users in Windows 10. If you have experience with an earlier edition of Windows, you might be familiar with configuring local users since this has remained unchanged over the years.
Before you log into Windows 10, you must create a user account during the initial setup. There are three types of accounts you can use to do this:
- Local account
- Domain account
- Microsoft account
In this chapter, we will focus on the local account, because this will appear in the MD-100 exam.
As described previously, a user account is required to log on in Windows 10. To secure it, the user account should have a password. While installing Windows 10, user accounts that are automatically created. We will look at this shortly.
Configuring local accounts
As the name suggests, a local user account resides on the local device only. It does not allow a user to access resources on other Windows 10 computers. Typically...