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Creating users on a computer using command prompt
User account creation on a computer is very simple task. As we all know, we just go to Control panel >User Accounts and create new user and set password etc. Nothing is so different right? but it could be more easy when it comes to create multiple users on a computer. We can use command prompt to save our time. I faced this problem before. I was in an institute and there were several computers, The task that was assigned to me was that I had a list of 50 students with their usernames and passwords. I had to create user account of each student on each computer. There were almost 58 computers. If I multiply, it is 58 x50 = 2900 accounts.
Would you try to go to Control panel each time and create a new user??? Never. It will take a lot of time. So, I'll tell you which command I used to save my time.
Step1: Click on Start, go to RUN and Open Command prompt
Step2: Type this command: net user username password /ADD
Since, I had a list of usernames and passwords, I simply replaced the text of command with actual username and password using text-pad and ran the command on all computers one by one. It actually saved my time.
To add the user accounts on domain, you can use: net user username password /ADD /DOMAIN
If you know DOS commands, this could be added to your knowledge.
