Private: BYOD User Profile Creation
Automatically create a new user profile on a personally-owned Windows computer.
Available to
Students
Platforms
Windows
Install Time
~5 minutes
Installation Instructions
Follow these instructions to create a new user profile on your Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Windows computer:
- Click on the Student link above.
- Click Download and Download anyway.
- Locate the downloaded file, right-click, and click Run as administrator.
- When prompted, enter a username for the profile and enter it in the box provided (the new username cannot be the same as your WFU username). Click OK.
- Then enter a password you would like use to login to your computer. Please be aware, make sure you are careful as you will only enter the password once.
- Click OK.
- Click Ok.
Now follow these instructions to login to the new profile on your computer:
- Complete a Restart of your computer.
- At the login page, click Other user.
- In the username field, type .\newusername (type .\ and then the new username that you just created).
- Enter the password you created.
- You will now be logging into the newly created user profile.
Once logged into the new profile, you will need to manually move all of your data to the new profile and setup all of your apps and accounts.