Add or Delete Users Account with Command Line in Windows

You can create user accounts separate for each person that will be using your computer. This will allow each Windows user to have their own settings, documents folder, visual style, wallpaper and so on. So separate account for every computer user is much better idea and you can do this simple from command line. To create a new user in windows or to delete a user just follow the steps below. This guide is tested in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10.

See also: How to rename Windows default Administrator account

Add a new user account

Step-1

Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator option.

Here how you can find Command Prompt in different Windows versions:

Windows 10 : Rignt-click on Start button and then select “Command Prompt (Admin)” option from menu. Click Yes to UAC alert.
Windows 8 : Hit Windows key from keyboard and type Command Prompt.
Windows 7 / Vista: Hit Windows key and type Command Prompt in start menu box.
XP : Click on Start button > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.

Step-2

On command line type this command net user UserName Password /add

Where:
UserName = Name of the user account.
Password = Password of the user account.

See the new user account has been added.

Hide password: Instead typing password that is visible while typing, you can type * instead typing complete password like: net user UserName * /add. Here, (*) means when you execute this command by hitting enter, command prompt will ask you to type a password for the user. When you type, password letters will not be displayed on screen.

Make an administrator user account

Default privileges are limited for all user accounts that created from Command Prompt, first you need to create a user account following above commands and then to give administrator privileges to a user you need to run the following command.

net localgroup Administrators UserName /add

Where: UserName is the name of the user account

Error : You might get this error while running commands.
System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

To fix the error your user account must have administrative privileges to run this command. and Command Prompt running with admin rights as well, look at the first paragraph to see how to run command prompt as an admin.

Delete user account

Step-1

Run Command Prompt as administrator, as we did in Step-1 above.

Step-2

In command line type this command net user UserName /del
Where:
UserName = Name of the user account that you want to delete

Disable user account command

You might need to disable any Windows user account temporarily, see this guide to enable or disable user account in Windows from command prompt.

Few more “net user” command tips

While adding a new user you can use the following switches with the command to add comments, set full name, password modification rights and more.

/fullname:"<FullName>" Instead username, specify user’s full name.
/comment:"<Text>" Give descriptive comments (48 character max.) about user account.
/passwordchg:{yes | no} Allow or restrict user to change own password, default is Yes.

Usage:
net user UserName Password /add /fullname:”UserFullName”
net user UserName Password /add /comment:”Temporary user for few days.”
net user UserName Password /add /passwordchg:”no”

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