Disabling user account in Vista Home Basic

[Dennis]

I have read in the Help file that Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premuim does
not allow users (or administrator account for that matter) to disable an
account. Delete is the only option. Does anybody figured it out why MS
removed this in the mentioned versions which in the first place I believe it
is pretty basic for user account management? Plus, it's contradicts the idea
of being an administrator account that cannot disable other accounts.

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Dennis wrote:
> I have read in the Help file that Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premuim does
> not allow users (or administrator account for that matter) to disable an
> account. Delete is the only option. Does anybody figured it out why MS
> removed this in the mentioned versions which in the first place I believe it
> is pretty basic for user account management? Plus, it's contradicts the idea
> of being an administrator account that cannot disable other accounts.

Hello,

You can always use the command prompt to disable accounts.

net user USERNAME /active:no

--
-JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

 

[Dennis]

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for the reply. However, I tried this already and I got this error:

"System error 5 has occured.

Access is denied."

-
Dennis
VB Programmer

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
> > I have read in the Help file that Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premuim does
> > not allow users (or administrator account for that matter) to disable an
> > account. Delete is the only option. Does anybody figured it out why MS
> > removed this in the mentioned versions which in the first place I believe it
> > is pretty basic for user account management? Plus, it's contradicts the idea
> > of being an administrator account that cannot disable other accounts.
>
> Hello,
>
> You can always use the command prompt to disable accounts.
>
> net user USERNAME /active:no
>
> --
> -JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Dennis wrote:
> Hi Jimmy,
>
> Thanks for the reply. However, I tried this already and I got this error:
>
> "System error 5 has occured.
>
> Access is denied."
>
> -
> Dennis
> VB Programmer
>
> "Jimmy Brush" wrote:
>
>> Dennis wrote:
>>> I have read in the Help file that Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premuim does
>>> not allow users (or administrator account for that matter) to disable an
>>> account. Delete is the only option. Does anybody figured it out why MS
>>> removed this in the mentioned versions which in the first place I believe it
>>> is pretty basic for user account management? Plus, it's contradicts the idea
>>> of being an administrator account that cannot disable other accounts.
>> Hello,
>>
>> You can always use the command prompt to disable accounts.
>>
>> net user USERNAME /active:no
>>
>> --
>> -JB
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>> Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>>

I forgot to mention,

You have to do this from an elevated command prompt by right-clicking
command prompt and clicking run as administrator.

Vista will not allow an administrative action to take place unless the
program you are using has asked for your permission, or you run the
program "as administrator".

--
-JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

 

[Dennis]

Oh, I see. I didn't reliaze that. I thought that since I was already
logged-in as an administrator all program executed is already ran 'as
administrator' just like in XP.

Thank you Jimmy.

Regards

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> Dennis wrote:
> > Hi Jimmy,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. However, I tried this already and I got this error:
> >
> > "System error 5 has occured.
> >
> > Access is denied."
> >
> > -
> > Dennis
> > VB Programmer
> >
> > "Jimmy Brush" wrote:
> >
> >> Dennis wrote:
> >>> I have read in the Help file that Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premuim does
> >>> not allow users (or administrator account for that matter) to disable an
> >>> account. Delete is the only option. Does anybody figured it out why MS
> >>> removed this in the mentioned versions which in the first place I believe it
> >>> is pretty basic for user account management? Plus, it's contradicts the idea
> >>> of being an administrator account that cannot disable other accounts.
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> You can always use the command prompt to disable accounts.
> >>
> >> net user USERNAME /active:no
> >>
> >> --
> >> -JB
> >> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
> >> Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
> >>
>
> I forgot to mention,
>
> You have to do this from an elevated command prompt by right-clicking
> command prompt and clicking run as administrator.
>
> Vista will not allow an administrative action to take place unless the
> program you are using has asked for your permission, or you run the
> program "as administrator".
>
> --
> -JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Windows Vista Support FAQ - http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>