wmic useraccounts

by admin on December 24, 2011

We can manager user accounts on a Windows computer using wmic commands. You can find commands for various operations below.

List user accounts:

wmic useraccount get name

The above command will list the login names of all the users on the local computer. To print login name and full name we can
run the below command.

wmic useraccount get name,fullname

Lock user account:

wmic useraccount where name='username' set disabled=false

Unlock user account:

wmic useraccount where name='username' set disabled=true

Remove password requirement for logging in:

wmic useraccount where name='username' set PasswordRequired=false

Rename user account:

wmic useraccount where name='username' rename newname

Restrict user from changing password

wmic useraccount where name='username' set passwordchangeable=false

The above commands can be run on all Windows editions. On Vista and Windows 7, these commands should be run from elevated windows command prompt.

 

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