Would you like to learn how to disable a local user account using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to disable a local user account on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
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Tutorial Powershell - Disabling a local user account
As an Administrator, start an elevated Powershell command-line.
List the local user accounts.
Here is the command output:
Disable a local user account.
Verify if the account was disabled.
Here is the command output:
In our example, we disabled a local account named GOHAN.
Congratulations! You are able to disable a local account using Powershell.
