The Microsoft Account Symbol on a blue background

When y'all have multiple user accounts, platonic if you're working on a shared Windows PC, you can switch between accounts without endmost whatsoever apps you lot have open or files you're working on. Here's how it's done.

Switch Accounts From the Starting time Menu

You tin switch user accounts straight from the Windows Commencement menu. Click the Windows icon in the taskbar, click your profile image, and and so select the user account you would similar to switch to from the context menu.

Switch account from Start.

In one case selected, enter the countersign for that account and it will switch over.

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Switch Accounts Using Ctrl+Alt+Delete

You can also use the infamous Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut to switch user accounts. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete simultaneously on your keyboard. Side by side, select "Switch User" on the screen that appears.

Click Switch User.

Yous'll and then be on the login screen. Select the user account y'all want to switch over to.

Switch Accounts Using Alt+F4

Another keyboard shortcut you tin can use when viewing the desktop is the Alt+F4 shortcut. Note that if y'all have any windows open, this shortcut volition only close the open up window instead.

Press Alt+F4 on your keyboard and the "Shut Down Windows" dialog will announced. Click the downwardly pointer next to the text box and and then select "Switch User" from the drib-downward bill of fare that appears.

Select Switch User.

Next, click "OK' or press the "Enter" key on your keyboard. You'll so be on the login screen where y'all tin can select a different user account.

Switch Accounts From Windows Terminal (Windows 11 Pro or Higher)

If you desire to feel similar a hacker, and so you tin can run a command in Windows Last that allows you to lock your PC, finer bringing you back to the login screen where you can select a different business relationship. Note that this method only works on Windows 11 Pro or college.

First, open up Windows Terminal as an admin by right-clicking the Windows icon in the taskbar to open the Power User menu, and then select "Windows Terminal (Admin)" from the menu.

Open Windows Terminal (Admin).

Next, run this control:

tsdiscon

Enter command to go to lock screen.

Once you lot run the command your screen volition lock. Unlock the screen and yous'll be on the login screen. Select the user account you would similar to switch to. You can also chop-chop lock your screen by using the Windows+L keyboard shortcut.

Microsoft made it like shooting fish in a barrel to switch between user accounts on Windows. Not only that, if you lot demand to requite one of the users admin rights, there's an piece of cake mode to grant them these privileges, too.

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