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Windows supports multiple accounts on the same device. If someone forgets to sign out of their account, their profile nevertheless runs processes and consumes resources in the groundwork. Hither's how y'all can sign out other users on the aforementioned figurer.

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How to Sign Out Other Users

When a user locks their account, the computer returns to the sign in screen but leaves their account signed in and running all their programs and processes in the background. This could be problematic for other people using the computer. You can sign out other users either with Task Managing director or the Command Prompt, and nosotros'll walk you through both methods.

Annotation:To sign some other user out of your device you must exist using an account with administrator privileges.

Using Task Manager

Open up Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc, then click the "Users" tab at the tiptop of the window.

Users tab of Task Manager

Select the user you lot desire to sign out, and so click "Sign Out" at the bottom of the window.

select a user and then click the sign out button

Alternatively, right-click on the user and then click "Sign Off" on the context menu.

right-click a user and select sign off

A prompt lets y'all know that whatsoever unsaved data on the user's account could be lost if y'all proceed. Simply proceed if you know they won't lose any data. Click "Sign Out User."

click sign out user on the warning prompt

Using Control Prompt

Open an elevated Control Prompt window by hitting Starting time, typing "cmd" into the search box, right-clicking the consequence, and then clicking "Run As Administrator."

run command prompt as administrator

At the prompt, type the post-obit command to place the users currently signed into the device:

query session

command prompt, query session command

Each user has an ID associated with it. Hither, Mark is the user we are signing out and his ID is "4."

Next, blazon the following command, but supplant "ID" with the user'southward ID from the previous command:

logoff ID

So, to sign out Mark from our previous example, we'd type logoff 4 .

Command Prompt doesn't requite y'all any alert or confirmation that the user has been signed out, but rerunning the first command shows you lot that the user is no longer listed.

command prompt logoff command

Signing a user out this way has the same risks of losing all unsaved information they may take been working on; Command Prompt only doesn't warn you before running these commands. Make certain any user you lot sign out has saved all their work before you blindly terminate their session.

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