Local Users and Groups in Windows10 Home upgrade

To add a new user and group in Windows 10 Home I tried to do it using lusrmgr.msc on Run. Which works for many, but for my version of Windows10, I am able to add users only through control panel.Computer Management Window ,error message: local users and groups this snapin may not be used with this edition of windows 10 I did find a fix, but it is applicable only for Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows.link for FixI also see that we can use control panel, but that is not best way, because I wanted to add groups, please explain if we can use control panel to do it.

4 Answers

You can add new user in windows 10 with help of the following method,

1. Windows Key + R
2. Type "netplwiz" without quotes
3. Press Enter
4. In "Users" tab click on "Add..."
5. Follow the instruction. You can add local user or a microsoft account
6. After adding user then click on "Advanced" tab
7. And change the group of the added user into user or administrator

other way to press windows logo + R and type control userpasswords2 in the run box, then press enter and it will take the same place to the above mentioned users tab.

Following 2nd part of @Peter Hahndorf's comment, namely:

...you can use the old net localgroup command

Is IMHO the easiest way to fix it on Windows 10 Home:

net localgroup groupname username /add

Where username is the name of the existing user you want to add and groupname is the name of the group you want to add them to. Source: Net_(command)/Localgroup

@Peter Hahndorf's comment is straight on the target when he says you could use Powershell to tackle the issue:

I don't have a home edition but try to run PowerShell as an administrator and then run: New-LocalGroup -Name "MyGroup" and Add-LocalGroupMember -Group MyGroup -Member username, or even you can use the old net localgroup command

I've met this problem over a trivial thing: my new notebook came with W10 Home Edition. I had previously purchased W10 Pro but didn't want to reinstall everything because Xbox Game Bar won't show my FPS count.

You can manually do it with the command Add-LocalGroupMember, just like Peter said, or you can use a simple loop on Get-LocalGroup, like this:

Get-LocalGroup | ForEach-Object { if ( $_.Name -like '*performance*' ) { Add-LocalGroupMember -Group $_.Name -Member $Env:USERNAME }
}

Mind you, the string '*performance*' is regional. In my case, with pt-br system, I had to switch it to "desempenho". Run, logoff and logon, and everything looks as it should. Powershell just saved me once again, this time from reinstalling a proper W10 edition.

Run PowerShell as an administrator and run the command to add a particular user to a particular user group (will work in Home Edition):

Add-LocalGroupMember docker-users DESKTOP-123XXX\MyAccountName

To find the list of users:

Get-LocalUser

And to get your computer name:

hostname