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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 7 points 6 hours ago

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add”

Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:

Type net user Prefferedusername /add (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add and press enter.

Type `net user Prefferedusername /add` (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

`net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add` and press enter.