Use Windows terminal to quickly check if you have local administrator rights over a computer

It’s very important to regularly monitor all the accounts that have been created on your Windows computer. Particularly with regards to determining which user accounts have administrative privileges.

The reason this is important, is that in Windows administrative privileges gives the user full control over every aspect of the Windows operating system. So by giving standard user accounts full administrative control, which makes installing software or drivers easier, it will also make it easier for hackers.

Which is why we prefer to work with a standard user account, while having an separate administrators account that we keep in reserve to be used only when we need to install something, or make changes to the Windows operating system.

Unfortunately as it’s not easy to see what accounts have been created in Windows 11. In order to check the accounts created. We use a terminal command in order to quickly check which accounts have local admin rights over a computer.

net localgroup administrators 

net localgroup users 

exit