Sometimes you need to add more users or administrators to your Windows 10 computer and you don’t want assign a Microsoft account for the user. To accomplish this you need to setup a local Windows 10 user which you then can assign administrator privileges to.

Here’s a simple video showing the workflow. Unfortunately the OS language is in Swedish, but you will probably get the point anyway.

Create a new local user

1. Open the “Settings” app in Windows 10
2. Navigate to “Accounts” and choose the “Family and other users” tab
3. Press on “Add someone else to this computer” button
4. Press on the text “I do not have this person’s login information”
5. Press on the text “Add a user without a Microsoft account”
6. Specify a username and password and optionally a password hint

Upgrade the local user to an administrator

1. Open the “Family and other users” tab again (as described above).
2. Press on the username and click on the button “Change account type”
3. A popup window will appear with a dropdown menu, select “Administrator” from the dropdown menu. And then press the “OK” button.

The user is now a full administrator on the local computer and is ready to be used. If you changed your mind, you can remove the account again.

Remove a local user account

1. Open the “Family and other users” tab again (as described above).
2. Press on the username and click on the button “Remove”
3. Confirm by pressing the “Delete account and data” in the popup window.