Changing a User’s Group or Account Type

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If you have an administrator account or are a member of the Administrators group, you can change a user’s account type or user group on a domain network. A user account or group grants permissions to a user to perform certain types of tasks based on the account type or user group (domain network). The steps to create a guest account differ, depending on whether your computer is part of a network domain or shared/workgroup computer.

Change a User’s Account Type

Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click the User Accounts icon in Classic view.

If you want to change another account, click Manage another account, and then click the user’s account name.

Click Change your account type or Change the account type.

Click an account type option.

Click Change Account Type.

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Click the Close button.

Change a User’s Group on a Domain Network

Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click the User Accounts icon in Classic view, and then click Manage User Accounts.

Click the Users tab.

Select the user account name you want to change.

Click Properties, and then click the Group Membership tab.

Click the group you want.

Click OK, and then click OK again.

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