How to Reset Forgotten Windows 10 Password

How to Reset Forgotten Windows 10 Password

Forgot your Windows 10 sign-in credential? Just bought a locked laptop with Windows 10 and you don’t know the password? You need to assist someone in recovering an Admin password in Windows 10? If you forgot a Windows 10 email account login, you could reset it from another device by following Microsoft online password reset method. But what if you’re locked out of a local admin account? In this tutorial, we’ll show you 2 simple ways to reset forgotten local administrator password on Windows 10.

Method 1: Reset Windows 10 Password with Install Disk

You can use Windows installation disk and sticky keys to reset the forgotten Windows 10 password and want to gain access to your computer without formatting it.
Follow these steps:

1. Insert Windows 10 install disk into your computer and set it to boot from the CD/DVD drive in the BIOS/UEFI.
2. Windows Setup will prompt you to choose your Language and other preferences, just press SHIFT + F10 hotkey to launch Command Prompt.
3. Execute the following commands one by one. It will backup utilman.exe, and swap the Utilman.exe program for cmd.exe.

copy d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe d:\

copy /y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe

Reset Forgotten Windows 10 Password – Command Prompt

4. Reboot your computer without Windows install disk. When your PC boots back to Windows 10 sign-in screen, click the “Ease of Access” icon located in the lower right corner. This will now open a cmd (Command Prompt) window instead of “Ease of Access“.
5. Run the net user Administrator 123456 command to reset forgotten local administrator password on Windows 10.
6. Restart, and you can log in to Windows 10 with the new password.