Managing user account and groups with “net” command line. The Net user command line is a built-in Windows Command tool. It uses for creating, deleting and managing user account in Windows operating system. Managing user account using command line and graphical interface both are easy. But the command line is high-speed and powerful. The net command utility works on command prompt and PowerShell.

To learn more about Powershell, just read the PowerShell articles on technig.com. And let’s start managing user account with a command line.

Managing user account using command line in Windows 10: 

1. Net user command review.
2. Add a user account with command.
3. Set Password to a user account with command.
4. Change user account password using a command line.
5. Upgrade standard user to an Administrator account.
6. Delete a user account and profile with command.

To run net user command, open command prompt or PowerShell with typing “cmd” on Windows Run.

1. Press Windows+R to open the run.
2. Type “cmd” and press enter for command prompt. And for Powershell just type “Powershell.”
3. Now, type “net user /?” and press enter to see the net user command line help.

Note: If you want to execute net user to add a new user or bring changes, you must run cmd or Powershell as administrators. It does not work as standard users. To run them as an administrator, just press Windows and search Powershell then press Shift+Ctrl and press enter.

Managing User Account using Command Line

To understand the structures of a command prompt command, get the help by typing “/?” at the end of any command on command prompt and PowerShell. It will show you the help documents.

PS C:\> net user /?
The syntax of this command is:
NET USER
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
         username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN]
         username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]
         username [/TIMES:{times | ALL}]
         username [/ACTIVE: {YES | NO}]
PS C:\>

Add a New User Account with Command Line

Let’s start and create a new user account with the net user command, named Ali with Password 123, and press enter. Type the following command to add a new user account with the command line in Windows 10.

PS C:\> net user ali  123 /add
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

The user Ali has been created successfully. If it shows the Access denied error, it means that the command prompt is running as standard users, like below error.

PS C:\Users\Shais> net user Ali 123 /add
System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

To view the complete information for a newly created user account, just type “net user Ali” and press enter. It will show you the user local group membership, Global group membership, date of creation, etc.

PS C:\> net user ali
User name                    ali
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country/region code          000 (System Default)
Account active               Yes
Account expires              Never
Password last set            10/10/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password expires             11/21/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password changeable          10/10/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes
Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   Never
Logon hours allowed          All
Local Group Memberships      *Users
Global Group memberships     *None
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Set Password to User Account with command

To set a password to a user account or changing the password of a user account, type “net user Ali *” command then press enter and type the new password twice.

PS C:\> net user Ali *
Type a password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

You can use this method to change any user account password in Windows 10 and other Windows operating systems.

Change Standard User to Administrator in Windows 10

You have successfully created a new standard user account and now try to add this user account to an Administrators group. The administrator privilege gives you the ability to bing changes to Windows 10 system and settings. With a standard user account, you cannot run the command, install software and change Windows settings. To change standard user to Administrator in Windows 10, just type the following command.

On the user information, you saw that Ali was only a member of the Users group, a standard group. You can add a user account to a group with “Net Localgroup” command.

PS C:\> net localgroup administrators ali /add
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

To remove a user group membership, type the following command and press enter

PS C:\> net localgroup administrators ali /delete
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Delete a User account with Net User Command

If you don’t need a user account anymore, don’t leave it away. Delete or disable it for security reasons. Someone might crack the password and log in to your system. To delete a user type “net user Ali /delete” command.  

PS C:\> net user ali /delete
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Note: When you remove a user with a net user command line, the profile’s deleted user account remains in the user profiles folder. You must delete it manually from the user profile setting. Read this article “Remove User Profile correctly in Windows 10“.

I hope you find the article managing user account using command line in Windows 10 helpful. If you have any problem or question about the managing user account using command line feel free and ask through comment. If you don’t like to use command line, try to read the article about creating a user account with a graphical interface in Windows 10.

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n Microsoft Windows operating system when you want to delete a user account, the user profile will remain in the root directory of Windows. If you want to remove user profile correctly and completely from your system, follow the step by step article until you have deleted the user account and removed a user profile from your system drive and get free your hard disk.

How to Delete User Account in Windows 10?

Delete Windows 10 user profile correctly:

1. Backup user account files.
2. Delete user account.
3. Delete User Profile.

Note: Before deleting Windows 10 user profile, try to backup important data then apply the following article.

Step 1:  In Windows press Windows +R to open the Run and type “lusrmgr.msc”  for opening the windows Local user and group manager. The local users and groups manager let you create a user account, delete user account or remove user account and manage users and groups settings.

2. Now select the Users to see the existing users on your computer. To delete a user account, right-click the user name and select Delete to delete a user account.

Note: you can’t remove the built-in administrator of your computer, but you can delete user accounts you have created. 

3. Finally, on the prompt screen, hit Yes button to complete the process to delete Windows 10 user account.

Now you have deleted user account only, and the user profile remains on the system drive. Let’s remove user profile completely from the system. If the profile remains on the system, it will use disk spaces.

How to Remove User Profile in Windows 10?

In step 2, try to delete the remain user account profile from the system drive. To remove a user account profile, you need to have administrator privilege.

Step 2: Remove User Profile. Type “sysdm.cpl” on Windows Run and press enter to open System Properties.

1. When the System Properties opened, select the Advanced tab.
2. On Advanced tab click Setting under User Profiles. Don’t click Settings under Performance.
3. Select the user account profile you want to delete it.
4. Click Delete button and click Yes to accept and remove user profile completely from your system.

Now the user account has been deleted successfully and the user profile removed from your system also. Deleting user profile will prevent the system from keeping other deleted user account profiles on your computer.

How to Delete User Profile in Windows 10? – Video

This (delete user profile) is going to make us a bit crazy. Some users comment us that have a problem with deleting Windows 10 user profile with above method. I have tested again and created a video to delete a user account profile correctly in Windows 10. In this video tutorial, I have explained two methods to delete the user profile. The first method is the above but the second one is using a DelProf2 app. This app works perfectly in this tutorial.

Hope this video can help you to delete some corrupted or remove user profile without any issue.

Let us know if you still have any problem with deleting users profile in Windows 10 or other Windows.

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A simple task for Windows users! Let me ask you. Do you know how to delete Windows 10 user account and profiles correctly? I’m sure your answer is a big No! And because of this you are reading this article to learn how to delete Windows 10 user account and profile correctly.

What is User Account and User Profile?

Let me explain a bit about User Account and User Profile in Windows operating system. It will help you to understand more about the structure of a user account in Windows.

• User Account: An authorised user name and password for a user on Windows in order to login to a system.
• User Profile: The files and documents related to a User Account on a Windows system. It is a folder contains a user system desktop files. The other standard users can not access to this folder. But the administrator of a system can see the contents of a profile, even another administrator account.

I hope you got the functionality and roles of a user account and user profile on Windows operating system.

How to Delete Windows 10 User Account and Profile?

Let’s simply first delete Windows 10 user account and then going to remove the profile’s of that user account. We can manage user accounts and groups in Windows with local user and group manager.

1. To manage user accounts in Windows, type “lusrmgr.msc” on Windows Run and press enter. On local users and groups you see all user accounts of your Windows.

2. Select the user account you want to delete, then right click and click Delete to delete user account.

It will delete Windows user account but the user profile will be remain on Users folder in Windows drive. So let’s delete user profile from Windows drive.

3. Navigate to Windows drive and Users folder to see all user account profiles. You can not delete user profile like a simple folder.

4. To delete user account profile correctly in Windows 10, type “Sysdm.cpl” on Windows Run and press enter to open System Properties. On system properties select Advanced tab.

5. On system properties Advanced tab, click Settings under User Profiles to see all user account profiles.

6. The Account Unknown is the profile’s of the deleted user account. So select the Account Unknown and click Delete button.

7. On the Confirm Delete page, click Yes to delete user profile permanently from your Windows drive.

You can delete the other users and profiles also. But the Administrator account is will not delete from your system.

How to delete Windows 10 User Account and Profile?

If you are not prefer to read article, watch this video to learn how to correctly delete User Account Profile in Windows 10 and other Windows.

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