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Add a new admin user to Windows via Powershell

This script will prompt for a new password, store it as a secure string, then provision a new user with that password. It will also add the new user to the Administrators group.

Command

$Password = Read-Host -AsSecureString
New-LocalUser "user_name" -Password $Password
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "user_name"

Be sure to replace “user_name” with the actual values in lines 2 & 3.

Reference

https://winaero.com/create-user-account-windows-10-powershell/