How to remove admin rights from guest account?

Question

I discovered that the Guest account on my computer has Administrator rights. Yep, my kids are much clever than I thought…Unfortunately I am unable to remove admin rights from Guest account.

Any ideas how to get back to “standard user” rights? (Windows 7 Enterprise)

Answer 1

• Open an elevated administrator shell.

• Execute:

  net localgroup Administrators /del Guest

• Check by doing:

  net localgroup Administrators

Should work on any version of Windows, since NT, 2000... to Windows 8.1, and in any flavour (Pro, Home, Ultimate, Server... etc), whether you try it in local or remote (telnet, SSH... etc) access.

Note that on your specific language localization, the name of the user and/or group could differ. Example for spanish Windows:

net localgroup Administradores /del Invitado

Answer 2

(Make sure you are logged in as an administrator, not the guest account or a user account.)

Go to start > run >> and type in lusrmgr.msc and hit enter.

You should see something like this

In the list of options, select guest and double click it.

Select the Member of tab.

There you should be able to ascertain what groups Guest belongs to.

Alternatively, you can select groups in the left hand navigation bar and see all users that belong to a particular group.