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In older versions of Windows and even in Windows 10 previews you could enable the built-in guest account in control panel
Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts
In Windows 10, the Guest
entry is missing.
Using Computer Management
or net user
you can still enable the guest account, but even then it doesn't show up on the logon screen.
In the Local Security Policy secpol.msc
:
Local Policies - User Rights Assignment - Deny log on locally
we can see guest
listed, this wasn't the case in older versions of Windows.
After removing guest
from that policy, it is listed on the logon screen and we can using it to log on.
However, the whole Explorer shell is crashing and restarting constantly. The desktop is blinking and you can't click anything.
So the guest account is totally broken.
There is a question on answers.microsoft.com about this showing that some code was quickly added to the control panel to not show the guest account. So Microsoft does know about the problem.
While I don't really expect anybody to know what they've done to break this, at least this explains why the guest account is currently not listed.
I'm sure MS is working on a fix or they are never going to enable it, i assume they want people to use Microsoft accounts to sign in. imho W10 is still in beta even thought it is RTM. There is no way anyone can answer your questions since we are not MS insiders. – Moab – 2015-08-15T16:50:43.383
@Moab - So would it be better to just ask
Why is there no guest account in Windows 10
and then answer it:Because it is broken
? And move the details into the answer? – Peter Hahndorf – 2015-08-16T02:52:56.470We don't know if it is "broken" or Microsoft is going to eliminate it. – Moab – 2015-08-16T17:17:27.857
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Does this answer your question? What's up with guest accounts in Windows 10? Can I have one?
– Ramhound – 2020-02-19T07:03:39.497