How to Create A New User Account with Net User

Are you looking for a quick way to add a new user account via command line?

Here at Your Digital Mind we have put together a quick walk through on how to utilize the command line to add a local user account. There are a few entries that you will need to update with the specific user account information.

Username = Name you want the account to be
Password = Password you want to use

1. Open Command Line as Administrator
2. Enter net user username password /add

If you would like to go one step further and grant this new user account local admin rights, enter net localgroup administrators username /add

To check this, navigate to local users and verify that new user account has been created and permissions assigned ( Windows 10 example below )

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