1. Computer Management

Once the Computer Management window pops up, select Groups from the Local Users and Groups section in the left pane. Here’s a screenshot: As illustrated above, the middle section shows a listing of all the user groups available in Windows 10, along with a brief description of each one of them. The descriptions are largely self explanatory. You can simply double click on a user group to specify its member user accounts. So what are these user groups? Open Local Users and Groups MMC Snap-in in Windows 10. Method 1: Open Local Users and Groups Snap-in from Computer Management Right-click on This PC icon from your desktop, and then select Manage from the pop-up menu. This should open Computer Management window. Expand “ System Tools ” in the left console tree and you can then access Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in. The Local Users and Groups in Windows 10 is an area where you can secure and manage user accounts or groups. These user accounts or groups must be stored locally on Windows 10 for you to be able to manage them.

To add a new user and group in Windows 10 HomeI 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 10I 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.

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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.

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Local Users and Groups is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that lets you manage user accounts or groups, like creation/deletion of user accounts, resetting user password etc. In this post we’ll show you how to open Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in in Windows 10. Note:the Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in is not available in the Home edition of Windows 10.

Method 1: Open Local Users and Groups Snap-in from Computer Management

Right-click on This PC icon from your desktop, and then select Manage from the pop-up menu.

This should open Computer Management window. Expand “System Tools” in the left console tree and you can then access Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in.

Method 2: Open Local Users and Groups Snap-in via Run or Command Prompt

Computer Management

Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box, or open the Command Prompt. Next type lusmgr.mscLancaster printworks. and hit Enter.

This will open the Local Users and Groups snap-in directly.

Method 3: Open Local Users and Groups Snap-in in User Accounts

Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box, type netplwiz and hit Enter.

When the User Accounts dialog box opens up, click the Advanced tab and then click the Advanced button. You now have the Local Users and Groups snap-in open.

Method 4: Open Local Users and Groups Snap-in via Cortana

Click the Cortana search box in the lower left of your screen, type lusmgr.msc and click it from the search result.

That’s it!