How to Find a Users SID on Windows

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This wikiHow teaches you how to look up the Security Identifier (SID) of another user on a Windows PC.

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  1. This opens the Windows “power user” menu at the bottom-left corner of the screen.
  2. A confirmation message will appear.
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  3. Now you'll see a terminal window displaying the command prompt.
  4. This is the command to display the SIDs of all user accounts on the system.
    • If you know the person's username, use this command instead: wmic useraccount where name="USER" get sid (but replace USER with the username). [1]
  5. The SID is the long number that appears after each username.
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    What is a Windows SID?
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    An SID, short for "security identifier," is a number used to identify users, groups, and computer accounts in Windows. SIDs are generated when the account is first created in Windows and no two SIDs on a computer are ever the same. The term "security ID" is sometimes used in place of SID or security identifier.
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