The Computer Oracle

Problem creating a new user in Windows 7

--------------------------------------------------
Rise to the top 3% as a developer or hire one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
--------------------------------------------------

Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Dreaming in Puzzles

--

Chapters
00:00 Problem Creating A New User In Windows 7
00:39 Accepted Answer Score 9
00:52 Answer 2 Score 4
01:05 Answer 3 Score 3
01:41 Thank you

--

Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/291385/p...

--

Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...

--

Tags
#windows7 #useraccounts

#avk47


ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 9


Try running the following command in cmd: net user username /add That should then create a user. You can then edit this user though the control panel.



ANSWER 2

Score 4


If you prefer a GUI for this, on the same "Manage User Accounts" control panel, switch to the "Advanced" tab and click the Advanced button under "Advanced user management"



ANSWER 3

Score 3


  1. Click "Start".

  2. Type "cmd" into the Search box.

  3. Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
    OR
    Click "Run as Administrator".

  4. Type the following commands and press Enter after each of them:

    net users
net user "john_smith" Access22 /add
net localgroup administrators "john_smith" /add

The first command will display all existing account names. Make sure that you see "Administrator".

The second command will create an account called "john_smith" with a password "Access22". The third command will make "john_smith" an administrator.