These tips are for Windows 10, but they should work on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, also.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Would you like to find out the name of the user account you\u2019re logged into Windows with? <\/span><\/p>\n Here’s how:<\/span><\/p>\n Open a command prompt. In Windows 10 type CMD in taskbar search and press Enter when Command prompt appears.<\/span><\/p>\n At the prompt type WHOAMI (as in who am I). Windows will respond with your computer name and your user account. It may be different than what you think. My main user account on this computer is Rocky 10 (a movie they never made) and I’m logged in as user odumh<\/strong> (don’t even ask).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now, for the next tip, I’m switching to a different computer where I have a lot of user accounts set up.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n To see a list of all the accounts on your computer, open an Administrator Command prompt this way:<\/span><\/p>\n Type CMD in taskbar search. When the Command prompt appears at the top of the search results, right-click on it and choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d from the right-click menu.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Command window at the prompt type:<\/span><\/p>\n NET USER<\/span><\/p>\n And press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll see all the accounts on your computer, including the hidden ones.<\/span><\/p>\n My second (backup) laptop is called Sydney28 (it’s a long story). You can see I have several other user accounts on Sydney28 with names like \u201cBeMyGuest\u201d, Jupiter, rainc, Reddington and thunder (Thunder Cloud) and some arcane accounts that were created by Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have an inquiring mind, you probably want to know why they are there. <\/span><\/p>\n WDAGUtilityAccount — Microsoft defines the \u201cWDAGUtilityAccount\u201d this way: \u201cthis account is part of the Windows Defender Application Guard which came with the Fall Creators Update (version 1709). This account is left disabled unless it (Windows Defender Application Guard) is enabled on your device.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n DefaultAccount — It\u2019s probably not what you think it is. It\u2019s not your default user account. According to Microsoft\u2019s arcane definition: \u201cThe DefaultAccount, also known as the Default System Managed Account (DSMA), is a built-in account introduced in Windows 10 version 1607 and Windows Server 2016. The DMSA is a well-known user account type. It is a user-neutral account that can be used to run processes that are either multi-user aware or user-agnostic\u2026\u201d hmmm!<\/span><\/p>\n Administrator — this is the famous, so-called hidden Super Administrator account. And while it does have some important uses, you should never enable it and then leave it enabled. If you want to enable it to try it you can do so this way:<\/span><\/p>\n Open an Administrator Command prompt and type:<\/span><\/p>\n NET USER ADMINISTRATOR \/ACTIVE:YES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Now press Enter. You\u2019ll get a message that \u201cThe command has completed successfully\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Once you\u2019ve enabled it, to use it you\u2019ll need to log out of your account and log into the \u201cSuper Administrator\u201d account.<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget to turn it off when you\u2019re done experimenting: Open an administrator Command prompt and type:<\/span><\/p>\n NET USER ADMINISTRATOR \/ACTIVE:NO<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Press Enter. You should see \u201cThe command completed successfully\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n And one more tip:\u00a0 If you have more than one user account — that you created — you can switch between them by using the Windows key + L shortcut. Try it!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/whoami1.png\")
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