Windows 10: Problems with adding a new user account

Following a fresh reinstall of Windows 10 I've repeatedly added a family member as an account user on the PC. Each time after getting the usual "Please wait" and "We're sorting it" messages the new user desktop opens with a message saying there is not enough disk space - patent nonsense as the C-Drive has a tiny fraction of space used. In addition none of the desktop shortcuts work - they're all blank apart from the title - and the machine doesn't respond to the Start Button being used and pretty much any keyboard commands.


The only route is to do Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then switch user to get back to my own desktop- which works perfectly.


The machine is running the latest updates and I've run the sfc / scannow command and its coming up with no registry problems detected.


I've run out of ideas.

:)

 

windows 10 - Microsoft Store & Adding new user

Hi,

Creating or adding new user account is one possible troubleshooting step that you can perform whenever you are encountering problems with Windows Store. Through this, we can identify if there are corrupted files in the current user that causes problem with
Windows Store. If you are having problem adding account through Account settings, let us try these steps instead:

• Open Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type this net localgroup administrator test /add and hit
  Enter.

Keep us posted.

 

Adding a new user

Hi Alex,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

I will definitely assist you.

Let’s try simple steps and check if it helps. Follow the below steps.

• 
  Type settings on the Windows search bar and select
  Settings.
  
• 
  Click on Accounts, and click on
  Family & other users on the left pane.
  
• 
  Now you can add new user account.
  

Also visit the below link on how to create new user account. (Steps applies to Windows 10).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-8

Hope this helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.

 

New Account/User Issues

Hi,

When you create a new user account, Windows uses the Default user profile as a template to construct the files for the newly created user account. You might be experiencing issues creating new accounts due to a corrupt Default profile. To
resolve the issue, we suggest reinstating the Default folder in the
Users directory by following these steps:

• Log in as an administrator.
• Open the C:\Users folder using Windows Explorer.
• Rename the Default user profile folder to Default.OLD.
• Download a zip of C:\Users\Default from a Windows 10 installation that doesn't have this problem.
  
• Unzip the non-corrupt Default profile into C:\Users.
• Try logging in to the new user account and check if the problem is resolved.

Let us know how it turns out.