Windows 10: How to delete a local security group on Windows 10 Home?

Hello Everyone,


I am trying to uninstall Microsoft SQL Server from my machine. Uninstall instructions say one must delete all local security groups for SQL Server components before uninstalling, however I cannot figure how to do this on Windows 10 Home. I have found online two ways of doing this, but neither has worked.


The first way is through 'Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Local Users and Groups'. Because I have Home edition, the 'Local Users and Groups' option does not seem to be available so I cannot delete anything this way. Running MCM.exe and trying to add the respective snap-in doesn't work either (error says "This snap-in cannot be used with this edition of Windows...").


The second way is through PowerShell. If I use the cmdlet:

Get-LocalGroup

I can see a SQL Sever group called:

SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<computername>.

However, if I try to delete it using the cmdlet:

Remove-LocalGroup -Name "SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser$<computername>"

I get an error message saying that no such group exists, as it cannot read what follow the dollar sign ($). Since -Name doesn't accept wildcards here, I don't know how to tell PowerShell to delete this group.


What am I doing wrong here? Is there anther way to do this?

Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I am currently at a loss and cannot find any other ideas how to do this.


Thank you.

:)

 

Show Local users and Groups


Hello Frank, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you have the Windows 10 Home edition, then it will not have Local Users and Groups (lusrmgr.msc) included in it. It's only available in the Pro and Enterprise editions instead.

If you like, you could use step 3 in OPTION THREE of the tutorial below list users in a group.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...a.html#option4

 

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Show Local users and Groups

Hey Brink, I was just looking at groups in netplwiz today and I noticed that my user account is just in the Admin group now, it used to be in Users and Admin. I have home, so I can't change it. I don't know how it changed. I guess there's nothing I can do about it. Will it be a problem?
I'm tempted to downgrade to my 8.1 pro and go to 10 pro.