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Windows Home – Useful User Account Commands

18/09/2017

Here a small list of commands to handle User Accounts working on Windows Home editions.

NOTE: you can give a look also here.

User Account Window

from ‘Run‘ window, type:

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Enable ‘Administrator’ account

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user administrator /active:yes

List any defined account

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user

Show account information

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user <account_name>

Set account password

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user <account_name> <password> [/domain]

or, if you don’t want to enter it as a parameter, type:

net user <account_name> * [/domain]

Set account change password permission

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user <account_name> /passwordchg:<yes/no>

Set account fullname

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net user <account_name> /fullname:”<fullname>”

“List any defined (local) group

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net localgroup

List any (local) group account members

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net localgroup <group_name>

Add a user to a (local) group

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net localgroup <group_name> <account_name> /add

Remove password expiration

from ‘Command Prompt‘ window, type:

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

and then

net user <account name> /expires:never

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