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Change your picture. The usual sign-in screen displays each

account-holder’s name, accompanied by a little picture. When you
first create the account, however, it assigns you a generic
silhouette.

To choose something more personal, hit “Browse for one” (to

choose an existing picture from your hard drive) or Camera
(meaning “Take a picture of my head right now, using the
computer’s camera”).

Note
You may see other photos here. They represent account pictures you’ve used in the past, for easy
re-selection.

Switch to a Microsoft or local account. If you have a local

account, you can switch to a Microsoft account, or vice versa;
either way, the button to click is right there at the top of your
Accounts panel.

To change a local account to a Microsoft account: Click “Sign in
with a Microsoft account instead.” You’re led through creating a
Microsoft account to call your own. To change a Microsoft account

to a local account: Click “Sign in with a local account instead.”
After you enter your password, you’ll be asked to make up a name

and password for a local account.

Change your sign-in options. Windows lets you sign in with
many different kinds of “passwords”: a regular typed password, a

four-digit number, a picture password (you draw lines on a photo
you’ve selected), face or fingerprint recognition (on specially
equipped machines), and so on. On the “Sign-in options” panel,

you can create or change whatever you’ve set up. Details start on
“Seven Ways to Sign In”.