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How to Access Your User Account Info on a Windows 10 Laptop

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No one can use Windows 10 without signing in to an existing user account. You can’t even configure Windows without an account. So you probably already have a user account, possibly the only account on your laptop. To review that account’s information, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Start button.

    Up pops the Start menu.

  2. Click your user account picture atop the Start menu.

  3. Choose Change Account Settings.

    The Settings app opens to the Accounts area. Your account information is shown on the screen.

    Account information in the Settings app.
    Account information in the Settings app.

Each of the items on the left side of the Accounts screen lets you change an aspect of your own account or add other accounts to the laptop.

  • Most basic account information is managed on the Internet by accessing your Microsoft online account. In the Settings app, choose the link Manage My Microsoft Account to visit the web page and make changes.

  • Changing your Microsoft account affects all your Microsoft products, which include other computers with that account, subscriptions to the Office 365 service, as well as email and other Microsofty things.

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Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
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Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.