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How to Show Account Information on Windows in Command Line

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If you are not sure what capabilities of current account can do on Windows 7 or 8, you can use the following command to show the detailed information:
C:Usersed>net user %username%
User name                    ed
Full Name                    ed
Comment
User's comment
Country code                 000 (System Default)
Account active               Yes
Account expires              Never

Password last set            2014/8/22 PM 09:44:58
Password expires             Never
Password changeable          2014/8/22 PM 09:44:58
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes

Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   2014/8/27 PM 07:12:36

Logon hours allowed          All

Local Group Memberships      *Administrators       *Users
Global Group memberships     *None
The command completed successfully.

Please notice that the user I am using is a member of Administrators group. This could be an important information for us to determine to perform some administrative tasks in current session.

You can also see other accounts information by net user. For example, you want to see all the details about administrator
C:Usersed>net user administrator
User name                    Administrator
Full Name
Comment                      Built-in account for administering the computer/domain
User's comment
Country code                 000 (System Default)
Account active               No
Account expires              Never

Password last set            2009/7/14 PM 01:13:36
Password expires             Never
Password changeable          2009/7/14 PM 01:13:36
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes

Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   2009/7/14 PM 01:08:59

Logon hours allowed          All

Local Group Memberships      *Administrators
Global Group memberships     *None
The command completed successfully.

As you can see in the output, the account administrator is not enabled currently, you may follow my another post below to make it active.
How to Enable Administrator Account on Windows

For more information about using net user, please refer to Microsoft documentation:
How to Use the Net User Command

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