I am personally not a fan of the presence of two divergent Control Panel-ish areas in Windows 8. I just want my normal desktop Control Panel that has all the functionality I could ever want. Unfortunately, the Metro PC Settings app seems to be the default for managing "easy" settings, which apparently includes user accounts. There's still the User Accounts applet in Control Panel, but to add new users you have to go to PC Settings.
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| No, I want to add a new user right here. |
As a side note, in the configuration page for a user account in this applet, there is still a link to one of the most pointless dialogs in Windows:
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| You can literally do nothing from here besides go where you already are. |
("Change Type" just lets you choose between a local account and... nothing. The other option, "roaming", is always disabled unless you're on a domain with roaming user profiles.)
So, rather than dealing with that or PC Settings, I choose to use the administrative tools! (Woo, enterprise software.) If you're using Windows 8.1, right-click the Start button and choose Computer Management. Otherwise, it can be found under Administrative Tools in the desktop Control Panel. Under Local users and Groups, click the Users folder to see all the users of the computer. Add a new one with Action | New User. To promote a user to administrator, open its properties and add the Administrators group to the Member Of list.
Metro avoided and admin tools used. Nice!
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