Change last logged on user on Windows 10

In Windows 10 you can no longer change the last logged on user in the registry like you could in Windows 7. Windows 10 requires the user’s SID to be entered as well. Here’s an updated guide.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI, you’ll want to change 4 entries:

LastLoggedOnDisplayName
Enter the user’s full name, like Allan Jude
LastLoggedOnSAMUser
Enter the username, like SHORTDOMAIN\allan.jude
LastLoggedOnUser
Enter the username again, like SHORTDOMAIN\allan.jude
LastLoggedOnUserSID
Enter the user’s SID, like S-1-5-21-112783954-3472839473-6329827380-1437

You can find the exact SID with wmic useraccount where name=’allan.jude’ get sid
Or you can search through the list of all users with wmic useraccount, and pipe it into Windows’s version of grep, which I find easier to remember: wmic useraccount | findstr allan
Now you can log out, and you should be good to leave the workstation for the user.

https://gist.github.com/dbirks/ec4416c9064a323b14f435ee934efd71