Unfortunately, without registering on the official Microsoft website and creating an account with a username and password, installing Windows 10 is not possible. It is not surprising that in the end, many users begin to wonder: "How to reset the password on Windows 10?". With all this, such a procedure can apply to both the main Microsoft account and local "accounts". Let's see how to do this in the simplest way.
Password and account issues
Let's start with the most important problem. First of all, a person is not a machine; sometimes it is common for him to forget some things. If, for example, the password you set during the installation of the system was simply not written down by a person, lost or forgotten, logging into Windows at startup will simply become impossible.
Secondly, during the registration process on the same official Microsoft website, primitive combinations like 123456789 are not accepted for system installation. Registration is designed so that it is necessary to introduce some combination, from a security point of view, difficult to crack or pick. Alas, this often leads to the most unpredictable consequences.
Thirdly, such passwords can be too complex or long, which, of course, makes it difficult to enter them at each start. And that is why many users want to abandon such a procedure. How to reset the password on a laptop (Windows 10 on board), desktop computer or mobile gadget? There are several basic methods for this. True, an uninitiated person, to put it mildly, will have to smash his head a little, because not everything is so simple.
How to reset your Windows 10 account password online
Let's start with the simplest. How to reset a forgotten Windows 10 password that was once applied to a Microsoft account? Naturally, you should turn to the official resource of the corporation. No, of course, you can delete all the "accounts" on the computer, but the record itself with its password will not go anywhere.
To perform this operation, you need to go to the accounts.live.com official resource, where you need to select the password change section. As a reason, you can specify its loss (in points there is a line “I do not remember my password”). After that, you will need to enter the address of the "electronic" or the phone number to which the "account" is attached. Upon receipt of the notification, it remains only to follow the link and on the lock screen to change the old password to a new one (if you do not refuse it at all).
Using Administrative Tools
In some cases, when solving the problem of how to reset the password on Windows 10, you can use the administrative tools. But only the system will have to be booted using a flash drive or disk like LiveCD or the “dozens” installation disk itself.
After a window appears prompting you to select a language, use the combination Shift + F10 to enter the command line. Initially, we assume that the user knows the letter of the system disk. Next, you need to enter two commands, as shown below.
After that, a reboot using the wpeutil reboot command is used.
Download will be made from the system partition (if this did not happen, you need to set priority in the BIOS settings). Then in the password input window we use the accessibility section, where we write the command “net user Username New Password” without quotes (the net users command is used to view all users).
After that, it will be possible to log in with a new password. If you are not using the "dozens" installation disk, first make a copy of the cmd.exe file, place it in the System32 section of the system disk, and then rename it to utilman.exe.
Boot disk and command line
Now let's see how to reset the password on Windows 10 in another, no less effective way. Again, we first boot from the installation lawsuit and use the combination Shift + F10.
After that, we perform the above operations, but after the authorization window appears, we use special features, and in the line we enter net user Administrator / active: yes, after which we reboot the system. Now we have activated the profile of the superuser (User). We click on it, and then set the phrase “Computer Management” in the search. Now we use the local users section, where we select our account. Right-click on the menu with the password setting line, after which we save the changes made, despite any system warnings.
How to reset a password on a tablet (Windows 10) or another mobile device
In principle, almost all actions come down to using the same command line, only the device should be started initially from a bootable SD card.
But the easiest way is to use the built-in factory reset tools.
Is it worth doing things like that
Naturally, the very question of how to reset the password on Windows 10 has a downside. How appropriate is such a procedure? Of course, if this is a home terminal and no one else works on it except its owner, there are no questions. If this is a computer or laptop that is part of a local network with several authorized users, then it is worth a hundred times to think before taking such steps. After all, sometimes you don’t want someone to change, say, local settings or use confidential information without your knowledge. In general, the decision is up to the user.
True, in almost all cases, using your own Windows tools, except for deleting your account, changing your password will not work. Here, as already noted above, you need to use an external bootable media (flash drive, disk or removable memory card). In the absence of those, nothing will work. However, even reinstalling the system does not always work. After all, with the activated "accounting" Microsoft will still "Windows" will refer to it. It goes without saying that it can be deactivated, however, the question immediately arises of access through local registration data. However, it will not be difficult to remove them (especially those that the system sets itself by default).
As for the removal of "accounts" that are no longer needed on the local computer, any user who has administrative access rights can perform such operations. Moreover, sometimes it may be advisable even to remove the registration of the so-called super administrator so that you do not constantly have to start some processes on his behalf, which, of course, annoys many users. However, even here you need to be extremely careful, because if you have an active Microsoft account, even after such a procedure, the system will turn to it. And where is the guarantee that the user remembers her login password? So what to say? Be careful and don’t do anything stupid, because then you will surely have to reinstall the system, and no methods of influence in terms of recovery (rollback to the previous state) will help.
But with mobile devices, everything is much simpler, because it is unlikely that several registered users will work on one tablet or smartphone.