How to create new Windows 10 local user account

[lungbing]

I can create a Windows 10 user account a number of ways, but when I do it is considered to be  a local system account, not a local user account, even when I give it Admin status.   Local System accounts don't seem to show up on the login page, so if I lose the one local user account I do have I'm in trouble as I can't access the others to login. 

 

All accounts show up in the Control Panel User accounts panel and in the various command prompt commands that list users and activate them.

 

Any ideas anybody?

[tomazbodner]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-a-local-user-or-administrator-account-in-windows-20de74e0-ac7f-3502-a866-32915af2a34d

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by tomazbodner

[lungbing]

Thank you for that reference.

I used it to create a new user, but I had the same problem.  The new user was also considered to be a local system account.  Then I found it!  An account is only changed to a local user account after it has been logged into. 

I had a setting in my registry that only gave me the last logged-on user when I logged on so it never gave me a choice.  I cleared that entry in the registry, restarted and lo and behold there was a login page.  I used the new user name, the new password I had set the new account with and after about 20 seconds of Windows setting things up I was in and now able to change between users.

 

So an account is not real until it's used.

 

Thanks for your help.