Windows 10: How do I make a guest account?

Discus and support How do I make a guest account? in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Windows 8.1 had a guest feature you could enable or disable. I cannot find one on windows 10. hello, this was irritating me too till i decided to do... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by jpeg666, Jul 30, 2015.

  1. How do I make a guest account?


    hello, this was irritating me too till i decided to do it the way i add users to an active directory enviornment. just open cmd prompt as an admin and type " net user (the user name, in my case test) /add"

    so net user test /add
    net user test password -this is to add password, just type the password where the word password is
    net user test /delete - if you decide to delete it. Hope this helps
     
    microsteve, Dec 7, 2015
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  2. darin Win User

    I followed your tutorial and found out that the created account was not a guest account actually. It was a standard account which is a member of the Users group. A real guest account should belong to the Guests group only.

    So after creating a standard account, we should use @bitkahuna 's method to add the account to the Guests group, and remove it from the Users group. I hope these help!
     
    darin, Dec 10, 2015
    #17
  3. 3rdiii Win User
    Using this method, creating a guest account worked. But when i log onto the guest account i've gotten the shell infrastructure host bug and now I can't get back to my admin account. I was wondering if anyone who experienced this bug has a fix for it.
     
    3rdiii, Jan 17, 2016
    #18
  4. How do I make a guest account?

    I recently upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10 (1511) and was playing around with the Guest account.
    I enabled the Guest account in Control Panel, and checked using (Net User Guest) to see that it was active. I did not set a password for the Guest account.
    However the Guest account would not show up in the login screen, even though it was enabled.
    I checked the local group policy (Edit Group Policy from Start menu) and under Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local policies...... there are 2 policies that affect Guest account.
    1. (User Rights Assignment - Deny Log on Locally) Guest account was present.
    2. (Security Options - Accounts: Rename Guest Account) Enabled

    I changed so that Guest account was allowed to logon locally, then tried logging in. It took some time to setup the profile but then the screen flashed a few times and I ended up with the Shell Infrastructure Host crashed error, and had a blank desktop with no taskbar, etc.

    I created another "guest account" called Visitor and added it to the Guests group, and when I logged in it worked fine.
    I suspect that the Rename Guest Account group policy setting may have had something to do with the Guest account login problem but I did not test disabling it.
    Seems like the Guest account could not complete the setup of the windows profile (Showing you the Hi message, etc)

    I am happy using the other Visitor account anyway.

     
    tworetsvictim, Apr 5, 2018
    #19
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