Microsoft is a specialized company focused mainly on a multitude of software solutions, both at the end user and professional level. In fact, the firm has some products of unquestionable success such as the Windows operating system, or the productivity suite, Office .
There are many solutions that the Redmond- based company itself makes available to us, some more professional than others. But of course, as many of you may already know first-hand, the Windows operating system could be considered its star product. Not surprisingly, it is the most widely used desktop environment system in the world, by far. But this is not the only product that we can take advantage of, but the firm has many more that are used by millions.
Likewise, as with other large firms, such as Google, its developers claim that all, or most, of their platforms can be used synchronously. In this way we can share certain data between the programs of the same brand, all to improve the end-user experience and increase productivity. As we say, it is not only Windows 10 or Office, since the account that we register here from Microsoft can be used in other environments, such as on the Xbox console of the same firm, for example.
Change the image of your Windows 10 account
At the same time we can affirm that there are many customizable functions that we can adjust in the operating system that we are talking about. In fact, this is something that users increasingly demand to work better with software as such. Well, in these same lines we are going to talk about a somewhat simple parameter but that most of us carry out, at least initially.
Specifically, we are referring to the possibility of changing the image of our personal operating system account . This is something that can be especially useful if we work with several of these on the same computer. Similarly, it can be very useful in the event that there are several people working on the PC simultaneously, but with different user accounts. Well, that is why we will tell you how you can establish, or change, that representative photo that we discussed. To do this, the first thing we do is access the Settings application of Windows itself.
Thus, in the window that appears, we will find a section that is precisely called accounts, where we click. It will be then when we are going to access where we are really interested, which is where we personalize the accounts that we have registered in the system. It is evident that to be able to modify the rest of the users of the team , we have to access from the administrator.
Well, once in the accounts section in Settings , to establish a new image that represents the current account, we have two possibilities. On the one hand, we can use the team’s camera to take a snapshot at that time, or choose a photographic file from those that we have saved. It is evident that for the first course we click on Camera, while for the second we choose Search for one.
As it is easy to imagine, when selecting the Search for one option, a File Explorer window opens so that we can choose the one that we are interested in setting here. Thus, once the change is made, at that moment our user photo will be changed, which will be linked to this image. In addition, if we have the account linked to a Microsoft account, the photo will be changed on all computers that use the same account as those of Redmond.
Change the photo of the Microsoft account from the web
But that is not always going to be the case, that is, that a Windows 10 account is linked to an account from Microsoft itself. That is why in these same lines we are going to show you how to also be able to change or add a photo that represents that personal account. In this case, for this we will need to access the account settings as such. Therefore, we will achieve this by accessing this link from our favorite web browser.
Now we click below the account logo as such that it could be empty and it is located in the upper left corner of the window. 
Here we will see that a drop-down list appears, so in it we opted to choose the call Edit profile. This will give way to a new browser window in which we find various parameters that we can change. In this way we can modify personal data such as the country in which we are located, the date of birth, the language, or the photo of the account. The latter is what we are really looking for in this case, so we have to click on the link that says Change image.
We can choose a new one from our disk drives, as well as adapt the size of the photo to the preset input by Microsoft . Of course, this change that we have just made, we do for the global account. This means that the photo as such will already be seen in all those products and platforms associated with this same account. For example, if we use it on the Xbox video game console from the same company.