How do I quickly create user accounts via command line?
Under Windows 11, 10, ...and MS Server OS you can use the command prompt to quickly create user accounts via command line!
In certain situations, you may need to create multiple user accounts on Windows that should be available on a Windows device. Or you want to test software under other user accounts with less access rights. Here is a simple method that works on all Windows operating systems. For this you need the required access rights, or an user account with administrative rights.
Now all you have to do is run the right commands, as needed, to determine how many user accounts are needed.
Here in the example the default account user-1 is created, because Windows creates this as a default user when creating a new user, this must be added to another group if necessary and also removed from the default user.
(Creating of user accounts "User-1" to "User-3")
net user "User-1" /add
net user "User-2" /add
net user "User-3" /add
It is not possible to overwrite the user accounts because an error message appears when entering existing user names! (... see Image-1)
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