Win8.1 user account Configuration Management tutorial

　　Four authentication settings for landing Win8.1 account

Before (Win8.1 use skill to understand Windows user account) introduced the Win8.1 account can be divided into administrator accounts, user-built accounts, as well as the Guest account three categories, on the basis of which we have to specifically configure and manage the account, So that users can have a deeper understanding of the meaning of Windows user accounts.

User account Management Interface

To manage the Win8.1 user account, it is best to open the management interface of the account through the "User account" option of "Control Panel" (pictured below);

Access to Account Control from Control Panel

You can also start the screen in the environment, the mouse to move to the lower right of the screen, from the Charmsbar menu automatically pop-up, select its lower right "change computer settings" option to enter the user account management interface.

Tips: Click on the map "from the computer settings to change my account information", you can jump directly to the image below the interface.

In "Your account", users can check their current account information, have to disconnect the current account, set up and log on to other online Windows accounts, as well as through the computer local pictures, camera shooting, networking applications to replace their own head of various functions.

Manage user accounts from computer settings

Four simple account login authentication settings

Introduce the security authentication method of the account login, the most obvious and easy to understand mainly has the password, picture password, PIN, password policy Four kinds of security authentication setting, we take a look in turn.

Login Options

Password: Change the user login password for the current computer.

Picture password: Mainly used in tablets, through the image of the login account password, the principle is to record the finger in a specific picture on the touch-type sliding operation, according to the Finger line, point, Circle of the combination, as well as gesture size, location, direction and other information to form a picture login password.

Picture password

Pin Password: You can set four-bit password to log in quickly.

Password Policy: Simply choose whether to switch user login to the computer to enter the password.

　　Change account type mode multi-platform sharing mechanism

Change your account type

There are only two types of accounts that users can change: The Administrator account and the standard account. The Administrator account has the highest system privileges, while the standard account only configures system normal permissions.

Change Account Type

Under the Change account type interface, users can change multiple standard accounts to administrator accounts, giving the current account the highest system control. You can also change the previously set Administrator account to a standard account. It should be noted that there must be more than 2 administrator accounts, in order to demote one of the administrator accounts to a standard account, visible, all the functions around the ease of operation and system security.

Set up multiple accounts for administrator accounts

Security protection measures of account to risk procedure

User Account Control settings, that is, Microsoft to prevent the risk of tampering with the system settings, and provided to Windows Users account security control function. The following figure slider adjusts to the highest level, indicating that any actions that make changes to the Windows system settings will prompt the user.

Account security protection for risk procedures

Win8.1 account sharing multi-platform

First of all, the account is connected to Microsoft's cloud synchronization service, users only need a cloud account, they can synchronize the data of a device to other WINDOWS8 device platform. By registering online Windows accounts, synchronizing e-mail, photos, files, and settings (such as Browser Records and favorites) to other device platforms, users can easily sync data on other devices and set them to local devices, regardless of which device they are currently using, as long as they log in to the account. Second, the Win8.1 account has a multiple platform landing account, which can be used as a general-purpose account for Outlook.com, Skype, Skydrive, Windows phone phone system, Xbox live, and other Microsoft product-related platforms.

Add Online window Account

Add a child account

This function is for parents to monitor their children's use, when the children's account has been added, Win8.1 's account classification system can also have more useful.

Add a Child rating account

Win8.1 account configuration and management process to introduce these, I hope that users can have a general understanding of the Win8.1 account mechanism, by understanding the Windows Universal Platform account, account security verification and control, as well as the touch screen design of the image password special landing settings, Shows that the Win8.1 account is a platform-wide general-purpose account that synchronizes data between platforms based on Microsoft, with a detailed security verification mechanism, a high degree of freedom of data sharing, and a convenient way to operate.