This tutorial will walk you through creating a new account in Windows 7 and

1. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button () in the lower left corner of your screen that has a Windows flag on it.
 

2. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
 

When the control panel opens you will see a screen similar to Figure 1 below.



Figure 1. Windows 7 Control Panel

 

1. Click on the Add or remove user accounts control panel option as shown by the red arrow in figure 1.
 

2. You will now be in the Manage Accounts control panel as shown in Figure 2 below.




Figure 2. Manage Accounts screen in Windows 7



This screen shows all the accounts currently on your computer. To create a new account, click on the Create a new account option as shown by the red arrow above.
 

3. You will now be at the Create New Account screen.




Figure 3. Create New Account screen



In the New account name field enter the name of the new account that you would like to create.  Select the check box/circle for the Administrator option as opposed to the Standard user option.

When you have finished selecting a name and the type of account you wish to setup, you should click on the Create Account button.
 

4. Your new account will have been created and you will see it listed in the Manage Accounts screen.




Figure 4. The new user has been created



As you can see our new user, named Test Account, has been created.

Now when you start Windows 7, you will see the additional account listed in the logon screen. That user can then select their login name and login into their profile so they can access their private data.

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