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birdlover

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I want to create an administrators group, but "local users and groups" does not appear under the Computer Management tree. How do I get it back? I'm doing this so I can then copy my administrative profile to another administrative user profile, which I will then downgrade to a regular user profile for security purposes when traveling.
 
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birdlover

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Thanks. That answers it perfectly. I wonder if there's an easier way to copy settings from one admin account to another. Another answer I found on this site said to add the second admin to the admin group, and then options appear to copy a profile from one admin to another. That's all I want to do so I will have all my settings, but then be able to lock down the new user (me) for better security when I travel.
 
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ktolo

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Yeah - sorry, not sure how to do that. You could always just set up a regular account and limit it's privileges, while locking your other account down with a strong password or something.
 
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You can't have the "Local Users and Groups" snap-in from Microsoft Management Console and the Computer Management tool in Windows. You must use CMD or PowerShell and to manage users it is
net user

and to manage groups it is:
- for domain controllers:

net group

and for local groups:

net localgroup

If you have Windows 8.1 type "net1" instead of "net" to avoid some misconfiguration problems
 
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