Delete a Local User Account With PowerShell

I need to delete a user from the PowerShell terminal and I don’t know how to do it.

Well, fear no more, let’s have a quick read on Remove-LocalUser on how to do this.

The command to delete the user is Remove-LocaUser.

Remove-LocalUser
      [-InputObject] <LocalUser[]>
      [-WhatIf]
      [-Confirm]
      [<CommonParameters>]

Remove-LocalUser
      [-Name] <String[]>
      [-WhatIf]
      [-Confirm]
      [<CommonParameters>]


Remove-LocalUser
      [-SID] <SecurityIdentifier[]>
      [-WhatIf]
      [-Confirm]
      [<CommonParameters>]

Here is an example of deleting a local user called simba.

PS C:\> Remove-LocalUser -Name "simba"

That’s it. Note that the above command only remove the user account leaving the user’s profile in C:\Users\simba. To remove the user profile, it’s quite more complicated. I’ll leave it for another day. Here is a reference to how to delete the user profile using PowerShell: Use PowerShell delete a user profile (step-by-step guide).

Reference:

• Remove-LocalUser