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What does it mean when the user account status is "degraded"? For instance, this is the case with the Guest account for my system. Does this mean it is not active?


Edit: This can be seen by using WMIC to gather a list of user accounts.

wmic useraccount where (localaccount="TRUE") get caption,domain,name,fullname,sid,status /format:list > useraccounts.txt
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My system shows the same message, because the Guest Account is Disabled by default.

Enable the Guest account and it should change to Status=OK

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It simply means that the Guest account is not currently enabled.

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