Add Guest Account in Windows 10  

Still no joy with this. I created a local account, but could not sign in – I was logged out immediately just as previously. Output of the net command is:

PS C:\Users\Mike> net user visitor2
User name visitor2
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country/region code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 5/10/17 6:58:21 PM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 5/10/17 6:58:21 PM
Password required No
User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 5/10/17 6:59:01 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *HomeUsers *Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.

I also created another local account, and then altered it by picking up at step 3 in option 1, even though I couldn’t sign in to it. The result was the same.

Any further thoughts? It seems rather odd that W10 Home allows me to create a local account but then won’t allow me to sign in to it.

Hi Shawn,
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not interested in the hassle. I'll just accept that this is a limitation of W10 Home.

Agreed. W10 Home did allow me to create the account, but it wouldn't allow me to log on to it.

MikeinGrange said:

Agreed. W10 Home did allow me to create the account, but it wouldn't allow me to log on to it.

I use a third option to create guest accounts in W10 Home, and this may hold the clue to being able to log in sucessfully. While lusrmgr.msc isn't available in Home, another utility that can manipulate group membership is - netplwiz.exe

Create a new standard user, then run netplwiz. In order to be able to select another user and change its properties you have to first tick 'Users must enter a password to use this computer'. Then you can select an account, click the Properties button, and on the Group Membership tab select Guests in 'Other'.

I've just tested this procedure. With 'users must enter a password...' still selected a newly-created guest account goes through the normal 'Preparing Windows...' screen before arriving at the Desktop. Once the guest account's profile has been successfully created you can turn off 'users must enter a password...' and still be able to log in to the guest account.

I used netplwiz as suggested by Bree, and created a new visitor account with password in the Guests group. Then I attempted to log in to it, and entered the password. It was accepted, but then I was immediately logged out just as previously. I used netplwiz again to remove the password, but it made no difference. I am back to square one.

MikeinGrange said:

I used netplwiz as suggested by Bree ... it made no difference. I am back to square one.

Does sound like it's something particular to your system. I'd try Brink's 'repair install' suggestion.

As suggested, I have eventually found the time to do a repair install of Windows 10 Home, and now I can create a visitor/Guest account -and log in to it at last. So there was something odd in my system.
Many thanks to Shawn and Bree for your help.