Adding a user to an admin group won’t take more than two minutes if you know how to do it. You won’t have to install anything, you can do it with the same Windows commands and we’ve come to show you how. Knowing this information will help you optimize your tasks on the computer , taking advantage of the settings available in Windows. Once you learn how to add a user this way, you won’t go back, so let’s get on with it.
Today we show you how you can add a local or domain user to a local administrators group on an operating system. This is normally necessary when it is required that the user has more permissions or privileges to modify the settings of his device, as well as access certain information , if it is kept encrypted for certain users. There could be several reasons that have brought you here and the commands that we show you below are the best proof of this.
Not all users of a computer have the same permissions, in the case of Windows, you can make some of them have administrator permissions and others, guest. This is interesting if you don’t want to share all the information with the user or you don’t want them to have permissions to make changes to the configuration. If a guest or standard user tried to change something they don’t have permissions for, they would be prompted for an admin password or would have to switch to a profile that does have those permissions.
How to add a user to the admin group with commands
In order to make this change in the configuration, you will only have to perform these steps on the device:
- Open the CMD command console,making sure you have administrator privileges to do so.
- Type the following command in the console:
- If we want to add a local user:net localgroup administradores “usuario” /add
- If we want to add a domain user: net localgroup administradores “dominio\usuario” /add
The command will change depending on the type of user, as you have seen, however, the result obtained with the two options is the same. In the case of domain users, it will have to be specified, in the case of local users, we will only have to put the name of said user in “user”.
This process will be very useful if we want to add several users to a group of administrators at the same time , you will have to specify them and you will be able to leave them all added in just a couple of clicks. The commands are very useful to optimize tasks that could take up a lot of time with other processes. It’s simple and you hardly have to know programming if you know the command you have to enter. You will only have to launch the command with the users added and the process will be carried out on the device automatically.
Use Windows Computer Management
If this first option with commands is not your ideal solution, here we bring you another method that may better fit your needs. With this option you will be able to add a user to the administrators group without using commands , you will only have to access Windows Computer Management . To achieve this, you will have to follow these steps:
- Go to Computer / My Computerand right click, there look for the Manage option.
- Select the option Local users and groups and inside, look for the usersfolder , click on it.
- List the existing users and right-click the user you want to add to the local administrators group.
- From the dropdown menu, select
- Within properties, select the Member Of tab. In this tab you can see which groupthe user belongs to.
- Click Add and you will see the Select Groupswindow open . Select the Advanced button.
- Click on the Search nowbutton and it shows all the groups. Select the name of the destination group where you want to add the user and click OK .
You will already have the user in this group of administrators and with it, you will be able to access its permissions. This second method can be longer, however for some people it is easier and more visual to add local users to a group. You can select the one that best suits your needs, you will get the same results and the permissions will no longer be a problem.
