Vista manage users and groups

But I wonder: has anyone developed a utility yet? Monday, August 27, AM. Thank you and hope you can help. Monday, August 27, PM. Neil, thanks for sharing info on net localgroup and net users. I added a group to my Vista Home Premium machine but now I can't seem to figure out the command line options to put an existing user into the new group that I created. Do you know how to do that? Monday, June 23, AM. BTW, my name is Nik, Neil was the guy who first posted a question about this problem and I posted the answer Anyways, heres how to add a user to a group Tuesday, June 24, PM.

Thanks Nik. I can now add groups and put users in groups from the command line. What I cannot figure out how to do, however, is give a group or a user access to remote logins. On a Vista Ultimate machine, there is a group called Remote Desktop Users, and any user in that group can make remote login connections to the machine via RDP. So, I created it and then added users to it.

However, those users cannot connect to the machine via RDP presumably because I need to change some setting with regard to the "Remote Desktop Users" group to enable this access.

Do you know how to change that setting or where it exists in the registry or otherwise? Thursday, June 26, PM. Sunday, June 29, AM. Thanks Nik! Nice job. I was trying to Telnet into Vista but had to add a user to the TelentClients group. I used your display group script and saw that TelnetClients was already there. I'd like to know those things as well. Friday, August 7, PM. I have a similar issue to JeremyLNY. Lusrmgr is always easier to use and historically, administrators have used the console for user management.

In this article, we will discuss how to enable lusrmgr in Windows 10 Home and also how to manage users from the command-line. It is not possible to use the built-in local user and group management tool in Windows 10 Home but we can use a third-party tool which is very similar to the built-in tool and it has the same functionality.

You can create new users and groups and change the existing users and groups easily using this app. Lusrmgr is a portable app that can be run on any edition of Windows 10 including Windows 10 Home. Please note that the lusrmgr program requires administrative privileges and.

NET framework 4. Password settings include changing or resetting Windows passwords, restricting password changes and password changes at the next logon, and storing passwords using reversible encryption and logins without passwords.

If we right-click the account, we can go to its properties. On the properties window we can see that the Administrator account is disabled. We can also reset the password this way if the user forgot the password. Here we have a list of the default groups on the system.

Every group has its description so we can see what type of access the members of the group have. To see the members of the group we can right-click it and go to its properties. In our case we have three members of the Administrators group. Notice that the default Administrator account is the member of the Administrators group. Notice that here we have users that are also members of the Administrators group.

So, users can belong to multiple groups. In fact, all users that we create will be members of the Users group. To add the user to the group we can click on the Add button from the properties window. You can create a new local user using the New-LocalUser cmdlet. For example, to create a new user named Optimus, enter the following commands:.

Resetting a user password is a little more involved. To do this requires three steps. You use the Add-LocalGroupMember cmdlet to add members to a local group.

For example, to add the Optimus account that was created in the last example to the local Administrators group, run the command:. You can use the same command to add domain accounts to local groups. For example, to add the Maximus account from the Contoso domain to the local Administrators group, run the command:. You can also use the same command to add domain groups to a local group.

For example, to add the ITOps group from the Contoso domain to the local Administrators group, run the command:. You can remove users or groups from a local group using the Remove-LocalGroupMember cmdlet. For example, to remove the Optimus account from the local Administrators group, run the command:. You can find out more about the cmdlets that you use to manage local users and groups, including how to add and remove local groups as well as remove local user accounts in the following Docs article: PowerShell Local Accounts.