These tips work in Windows 10 and Windows 11<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Would you like to find out the name of the user account you\u2019re logged into Windows with? Here\u2019s how:<\/span><\/p>\n Open a command prompt. In Windows 10 type CMD in the taskbar search and press Enter when the 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\u2019m logged in as user odumh (don\u2019t even ask).<\/span><\/p>\n For the next tip, I\u2019m showing two of my computers, one of which (Windows 10) has multiple user accounts set up.<\/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 the 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 Press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll see all the accounts on your computer, including the hidden ones.<\/span><\/p>\n My Windows 10 laptop is called Sydney28 (it\u2019s 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 One of my Windows laptops, running Windows 11 Home has three accounts: My Guest, Rainc, and a WDAGUtilityAccount. A second Windows 11 laptop, running Windows 11 Pro, has three user accounts: Rainc, TC, and WDAGUtilityAccount. If you have an inquiring mind, you probably want to know why they are there.<\/span><\/p>\n WDAGUtilityAccount \u2014 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 \u2014 It’s usually the account you log in with.<\/span><\/p>\n If you see an account named “Administrator” (not the account type), this is the famous, so-called hidden Super Administrator account. And while it has some important uses, you should never enable it and leave it enabled. If you want 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><\/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, you\u2019ll need to log out of your account and log in to the \u201cSuper Administrator\u201d account. 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><\/p>\n Press Enter. You should see \u201cThe command completed successfully\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Bonus tip<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n If you have created multiple user accounts on your PC, you can switch between them using the Windows key + L shortcut. Try it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who Am I? All About the User Accounts on Your Windows Computer These tips work in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Would you like to find out the name of the user account you\u2019re logged into Windows with? Here\u2019s how: Open a command prompt. 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