In Windows 7, the logon screen usually contains a picture that you
choose when setting up the computer and a default user name. Since I
purchased my computer from Best Buy, the picture was already set and
the user name was simply User.
Not very unique! The first thing I did when I got my computer was to
change the user name and change my user picture. That is what I’ll
explain in this article.
Change User Name in Windows 7
First, click on
Start and then
Control Panel.
Then click on
User Accounts and Family Safety.
On the next screen, click on the
User Accounts
heading at the very top.
Finally, click on
Change your account name to
actually change the user name. If you want to change the user name for a
different account, click on
Manage another account.
Now type in the new user name that you desire and click the
Change
button.
That’s it! Once you click Change, you’ll be back to the previous
screen with a preview of the new login screen.
Change User Picture in Windows 7
To change the user account picture, simply click on the
Change your account picture link in the second step above.
You can either choose from the default pictures in Windows 7 or you
can click the
Browse for more pictures link. Once you
have chosen the desired picture, click on the
Change Picture
button.
Change/Create
User Password in Windows 7
If you want to create a password for your user account or change the
current password, click on the
Change Windows
password link.
If you don’t already have a password setup for your user account, you
can click on the
Create a Windows 7 password for your account
link, otherwise you can click Change your password.
So those are the most common three tasks when managing user accounts
in Windows 7.
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