How to Disable and/or Delete the Guest Account on Windows
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All on Wed Feb 12 18:49:37 2025
XPost: alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.comp.os.windows-11
I was removing unused accounts from the command line on
Windows 10 and I noticed that the Guest account was
apparently not empty & not disabled, so I wiped it out.
Here are the commands I ran if you need them in the future.
(They should work for any account, I would think, right?)
Please let me know if I missed anything important to
run when you're wiping out an entire account on Windows 10.
Note: I'm not sure if there is even a Guest account on Win11???
Win+R > cmd {control+shift+enter}
C:\Windows\system32> net user
User accounts for \\Marion
--------------------------------------------------------------
Marion Administrator DefaultAccount
Guest WDAGUtilityAccount User1
User2 User3
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> net user user1 /delete
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32>net user user2 /delete
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32>net user user3 /delete
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> net user
User accounts for \\Marion
--------------------------------------------------------------
Marion Administrator DefaultAccount
Guest WDAGUtilityAccount
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> wmic useraccount where name="Guest" get disabled
Disabled
FALSE
C:\Windows\system32> net user guest /active:no
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> wmic useraccount where name="Guest" get disabled
Disabled
TRUE
C:\Windows\system32> net localgroup
Aliases for \\Marion
-----------------------------------------------------------------
*Access Control Assistance Operators
*Administrators
*Backup Operators
*Cryptographic Operators
*Device Owners
*Distributed COM Users
*docker-users
*Event Log Readers
*Guests
*Hyper-V Administrators
*IIS_IUSRS
*Network Configuration Operators
*Performance Log Users
*Performance Monitor Users
*Power Users
*Remote Desktop Users
*Remote Management Users
*Replicator
*System Managed Accounts Group
*Users
The command completed successfully.\
C:\Windows\system32> net user Guest
User name Guest
Full Name
Comment Built-in account for guest access to the computer/domain
User's comment
Country/region code 000 (System Default)
Account active No
Account expires Never
Password last set 2/12/2025 11:11:11 AM
Password expires Never
Password changeable 2/12/2025 11:11:11 AM
Password required No
User may change password No
Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon 10/24/2024 1:14:11 AM
Logon hours allowed All
Local Group Memberships *Users
*Guests
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> net localgroup Users Guest /delete
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> dir C:\Users\Guest
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F9A4-23AD
Directory of C:\Users\Guest
10/24/2024 10:00 AM <DIR> .
10/24/2024 10:00 AM <DIR> ..
10/24/2024 10:01 AM <DIR> Documents
10/24/2024 10:02 AM <DIR> Desktop
10/24/2024 10:03 AM <DIR> Downloads
5 File(s) 0 bytes
5 Dir(s) 123,456,789,012 bytes free
C:\Windows\system32> rd /s /q C:\Users\Guest
C:\Windows\system32>
C:\Windows\system32> net localgroup Administrators Guest /delete
C:\Windows\system32> net localgroup "guests"
Alias name guests
Comment Guests have the same access as members of the Users group by default, except for the Guest account which is further restricted
Members
----------------------------------------------------------------
Guest
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32> wmic useraccount where name="Guest" get name,sid,disabled
Disabled Name SID
TRUE Guest S-1-5-21-8282494282-384228012-812822281-128
C:\Windows\system32> sc query type= service state= all|findstr /i guest
SERVICE_NAME: vmicguestinterface
DISPLAY_NAME: Hyper-V Guest Service Interface
DISPLAY_NAME: Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service
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