Windows 10: Add Guest Account in Windows 10

As suggested, I have eventually found the time to do a repair install of Windows 10 Home, and now I can create a visitor/Guest account -and log in to it at last. So there was something odd in my system.
Many thanks to Shawn and Bree for your help.

 

Great news Mike. *Party

 

The repair install also worked for me.I stated in an earlier post (#14) that I had succeeded in converting a Normal User account to a Guest account. That report was true - but misleading.

Here's what actually happened. I transferred a Macrium system image from an older Dell Vostro to my new Asus. That Vostro had an unused Normal account. So, as a quick experiment, I simply converted that account to a Guest account with no password.

There were no problems at login. So I deleted the experimental Guest account. (Rule: don't delete anything on a computer without thinking about it for at least a year.) I created a new Normal User account, then converted it to a Guest account as suggested earlier by Brink.

That account had the instantaneous logout problems as seen by several users of this thread. So I was then forced to do a Repair Install as suggested by Brink. That solved the problem

 

I'm glad you were able to get it sorted as well. *Smile

 

I now have a follow-up question on the same subject.
The visitor account has been set up with a US keyboard (there was no option to specify otherwise at set-up), but the visitor is unable to alter this, as admin rights are needed. How do I, as administrator, change the keyboard for the visitor account to the UK version?

 

Hello Mike, *Smile

If you like, you could set a default keyboard input method for all users.

*Arrow Input Method - Set Default Language in Windows 8

 

@MikeinGrange,

A Guest account cannot open Settings, but it can open Control Panel. You can add an input method in Control Panel > Language. You won't even get a UAC prompt.

 

Many thank to both Brink & Bree for their rapid responses. Problem now solved.

 

Glad we could help Mike. *Smile

 

Is there a way to delete all the files the visitor created on shutdown?

 

Hello yildizabdullah, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Usually, everything a guest account does is cleared when they sign out.

 

Not since Vista I think.

This tutorial (unless I made a mistake) simply makes another account. I ran through it, made a document on the desktop of the "Visitor" account and signed out.

When I signed into my account then it was still there under C:\Users\Visitor\Desktop

When I signed in again as "Visitor" the document was still there.

This tutorial doesn't make a guest account I'm afraid. It just makes an account and links it to the guest group which seems to do nothing.

What everyone wants with a guest account is that (as in the past with XP and also with OSX etc) everything that the guest does is deleted. They can not save things the next guest can see and the next guest can not see what they did.

This tutorial doesn't do it.

 

As a workaround for now until something better comes along, you can delete or rename the "C:\Users\Visitor" profile folder while signed in to an administrator account and the "Visitor" account is signed out.

This will cause a temp profile to always be created for the "Visitor" account each time it is signed in to, and effectively wiping it each time after signing out of the account.