Vài tuần trước, ai đó email tôi, báo về potentially big problem với user management trên Windows 10. Cụ thể, sau khi upgrade từ Windows 8.1, người đó gặp trouble creating additional users. Anscheinend, có issue với user profile format và whatnot. That definitely sounds tricky.
Tôi decided I had to test for myself, to see whether there are real problems in the process. Also, this gives us a nice opportunity to check how Microsoft handles user management in their latest operating system. So let's see what gives.
Add account
Như bạn expect, this is not a trivial thing. Nếu bạn search through Settings menu, bạn sẽ get new Metro interface. And again, efficiency takes a hit, as the needed buttons to actually create users are hidden three levels deep. Nếu bạn dùng system search functionality với phrase add user, thì bạn sẽ get old pre-Windows 8 stuff.
Trying the new interface, you have the option to add either a family member or someone else. I presume the difference is mostly in sharing và parental control, if any. But still, let's continue. Oh, I like how it says, This won't add them to your family. Wow, what a relief. I'm not getting new family members!
Khi bạn start the wizard cho new account, bạn sẽ be asked to provide the email or phone of the person that you want to add. As you can imagine, this option means you will end up with an online account. No, don't want.
Nếu bạn want a local account, as you should, bạn still have one more hurdle. Bạn sẽ still be asked to setup an online account, so pay attention. You actually want the option at the bottom of the window. Then you can do the normal thing. Again, I like how the online account is advertised - Microsoft services are all better and more personal. What? What does that mean? Better how? More personal how? Has anyone read this sentence và actually felt inspired?
This will complete the creation of the user. The next step is to log off your current user, và try the new one, or you can just switch, but that will also lock existing programs và files in use. To actually log off, hit the user name at the top of the menu.
Test new account
The login took several minutes, as Windows 10 was busy preparing the user environment. What this effectively means is, nếu bạn có Internet connection, Windows 10 sẽ download all sorts of useless stuff và populate your account. As you can see from the desktop screenshot, all sorts of crap have been added to the system. Now, why would I ever be interested in these promo semi-adware semi-spyware nonsense programs? Google Play Music on a desktop? What?
It gets worse. The menu is there, và it features all the stupidity you can imagine. Flipping live tiles, stupid news that tell us what happened in moronland, promotional shit, games designed for people with unpaired chromosomes, trialware that does nothing useful, và other associated digital diarrhea.
I even got something called McAfee Central, và you know well how I feel about pointless security software. Not only was the system menu flashing in twenty colors of retarded, also known as twenty shades of stupid, now I was also forced to suffer even more interference into my habits và usage model.
On the bright side, user management works as advertised, but the end result is, you will be landed with a desktop polluted with nonsense và noise và crap, và bạn sẽ cần spend some time trying to strip down all this crap to a minimum. Tôi have no idea what happens if you go with an online account, but it must be a lot worse.
More reading
You will probably be interested in the following:
Why upgrading to Windows 10 won't make you into a genius or anything
Windows 10 privacy guides, number one and two and three
If you are being pushed into a corner ...
Kết luận
Windows 10 user management is pretty much like everything else included in this operating system; simple và complicated. You are definitely less efficient than when using Windows 7, và the need to create a happy và abstract interface for its users has led Microsoft down some rather convoluted và unpredictable ergonomics paths. However, no matter how it's designed, the accounts functionality works. So that's one thing.
The other side of the coin is, there's a lot of pressure into trying to make you succumb to this online mania, và immerse yourself into the cesspool of mediocrity that seems to be the sweet spot of profit for large corporations. You can try to disassociate your emotions from that, but I won't begrudge you if you lose your composure. I know I did. I hate promo software, I hate clickbait offers, I hate crippled ad-ridden limited use programs. I hate when companies try to dictate how I should use my devices. And creating new account probably gives you the biggest jolt of all, as you get a whole desktop of crap all at once. Anyhow, you know where you stand. No point in me typing any more here. We're done.
Chào.