---
title: "Create Local user in Windows 8"  
description: "In this article I’m trying to explain how to create a local user in windows 8."  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-01-25  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1125/create-local-user-in-windows-8  
category: "windows 8"  
tags: ["windows 8"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Create Local user in Windows 8

In this article I’m trying to explain how to create a local user in windows 8.\

Click top or bottom side corner on Desktop screen or Press window + C to open a Pane.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/b02945ba-b23a-4a95-807f-2657229d5ceb.png)

Select the Setting option after selecting Setting option below screen will appear.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/174c78ba-d838-497c-aef4-234c592dadac.png)

In this step you can select the Change PC setting which is appear on the bottom right side after selecting Change PC setting below screen will appear.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/cb3bd4a1-c6d7-4b81-a98b-966c5c92a92e.png)

In this section you can select the Users which is under the left side pane and after that you can select the Add a user.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/cd63efaa-a50c-4eb6-b4ab-0bed3517336d.png)

In this step you can Click on Sign in without a Microsoft account and then click on Next button, after that below screen will appear.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/535c424f-669a-4d97-9a80-4b7e91190e79.png)

No in this step you can click on Local Account for creating a Local Account.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/99017ab2-1628-4c8a-bbe0-efe4312b81ba.png)

Now in this step you can give your user name password and password hint and press Next. After clicking Next button below screen will appear.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/a384930d-f8a6-4b88-8a44-66e4c0ff5da3.png)

Now click to Finish button and create local user account.

![Create Local user in Windows 8](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/e50f7ea2-da96-4ba5-bb9a-a4b8fb38c0b3/images/f5be5f25-4e6b-4df3-9649-c25b47005cc7.png)

Now you can see your local user is created.

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