Accounts Sign out of Windows 11

This tutorial will show you different ways to sign out of your account or other users in Windows 11.

When you sign out of Windows, all your open windows and apps are closed, but the computer is not turned off. Another user can sign in without needing to restart the computer.

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1 Open the Start menu .

2 Click/tap on the User icon. (see screenshots below)

3 Perform an available step below:

• Click/tap on Sign out in the account picture menu.
• Click/tap on the More options (3 dots) button in the Microsoft account picture menu, and click/tap on Sign out.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22631.4249 (23H2) and build 26100.1882 (24H2), the Sign out option is no longer in the more options menu. It is now present in the main view.

1 Perform one of the following actions: (see screenshot below)

• Open the Win+X Quick Link Menu, click/tap on Shut down or sign out, and click/tap on Sign out.
• Press the Win + X keys, press U, and press i.

1 Click/tap on your desktop (Win+D) to make it the current focused (active) window.

2 Press the Alt + F4 keys to open the Shut Down Windows dialog.

This will only work if you did step 1. Otherwise, it will close the current active window instead of the desktop.

3 Select Sign out in the drop menu, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)







1 Press the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys.

2 Click/tap on Sign out. (see screenshot below)

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on the Users tab, right click on the signed in user (ex: "Brink2") you want to sign out, and click/tap on Sign off. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Sign out user to confirm. (see screenshot below)


4 You can now close Task Manager if you like.





1 Open Windows Terminal, and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

2 Copy and paste the shutdown /L /F command into Windows Terminal, and press Enter.





1 Open Windows Terminal, and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

2 Copy and paste the Loggoff command into Windows Terminal, and press Enter.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Open Windows Terminal (Admin), and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

2 Copy and paste the query user command into Windows Terminal (Admin), and press Enter. (see screenshot below step 3)

3 Make note of the session ID (ex: "2") of the USERNAME (ex: "brink2") you want to sign out. (see screenshot below)


4 Type the command below you want to use into Windows Terminal (Admin), and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

Substitute <ID> in the command above with the session ID (ex: "2") from step 3.

For example: logoff 2 /v

5 You can now close Windows Terminal (Admin) if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

1 Open Windows Terminal (Admin), and select Windows PowerShell.

2 Copy and paste the command below into Windows Terminal (Admin), and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

quser | Select-String "Disc" | ForEach {logoff ($_.tostring() -split ' +')[2]}

3 You can now close Windows Terminal (Admin) if you like.




That's it,
Shawn Brink