A Guest Account in Windows 10 lets users use the Windows PC without any account. This is very helpful, when you want someone to use your PC and you do not want them to have all the permissions. For instance, the user with guest account cannot have permissions to create a new account, change password or change any system settings. You may have already read our post hightlighting the difference between the Admin, Stantadrd, Guest, etc Accounts.
Enabling and disabling the Guest Account in previous versions of Windows is very simple and it can be done from User Accounts in Control Panel. But the process to enable Guest account in Windows 10 is a bit tricky. In this article, I will let you know how to enable Guest Account in Windows 10 using Command Prompt.
Enable Guest Account in Windows 10 using CMD
Guest account can be used only to browse files which are already present and carry out regular web surfing. Users on guest account cannot install and uninstall software, access and modify local files and more.
To do so, you need to open WinX Menu and select Command Prompt (Admin). In the Command Prompt window, type the following command and hit enter.
net user guest /active:yes
It will show you message “The command completed successfully”. This means that, the Guest Account has been enabled in Windows 10.
If you want to disable the Guest Account in Windows 10, use the following command in Command Prompt:
net user guest /active:no
To see the “Guest” account, open the Star Meu and click on your user account name. You will be able to see the Guest Account.
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