How to find out the Windows 10 local system password

Often the situation may be that the password for operating system will be forgotten. This is not surprising - you can a quick fix write down your authorization data, work on your PC for several months, accidentally lose the piece of paper with the code, and at one point realize that you need it. Someone will ask - but if a password is not required when logging into the system, then why enter it? It’s simple - even on machines where authorization is disabled, you may need to enter a password, for example, after manually locking Win+L or after next update. The thought immediately arises - how to remove the password when logging into Windows 10?

Today this is exactly what we will talk about. Moreover, the situation will be considered when you work from an account associated with Microsoft and when you use local Account. The password reset process is similar to that in previous versions of Windows, but there are some differences. We will assume that for some reason you do not know your password, for example, you simply forgot it.

First of all, try entering your password in the usual way. English layout, this approach can help if you entered data and forgot to switch it. It's also worth trying to log in with the Caps Lock, the fact is that for the operating system there is a difference between the words Alyosha and Alyosha. If for some reason you do not understand how to reset your password on Windows 10 or you encounter other difficulties, there is a video at the end of this article that duplicates what was written.

If your account has been synchronized with Microsoft and your computer is connected to the network, there will be no difficulties at all in recovering your password. You can do this directly on the Microsoft website. Let's look at the issue in more detail, follow all stages of our step by step instructions. Let's get started:

Visit the password recovery page on the official Microsoft website by following the link. We will be asked to indicate the reason why we cannot log in, select any, we indicate “I don’t remember my password.” Click “Next”.

At the next stage, indicate the email from your account, enter the confirmation number and click “Next”.

A letter with a confirmation code will be sent to the email specified at the previous stage, copy it.

Enter the confirmation code in the window shown in the screenshot and again press the key with the text: “Next”.

Enter New Password, confirm it and click on the “Next” button.

That's all, our password has been changed and we can use it when logging into the operating system. Naturally, in order for it to be updated on your computer, you need to have a working connection to the network.

Try to constantly link your account to your Microsoft account. Firstly, this will prevent you from forgetting your authorization data or restoring it without problems. Secondly, all your data will be synchronized, and the user’s folder will be completely saved in OneDrive cloud, which Microsoft company gives free of charge to all its users.

How to reset your Windows 10 local account password

In order to use this option, you need to have a flash drive or disk for Windows installations 10. We looked at how to create it in. Let's move on to the instructions, each step of which will be shown in the screenshot for clarity.

First you need to boot from our media. To do this you need to Computer BIOS install USB or DVD media first boot device. In order to enter the BIOS, you need to press the moment the computer starts Del button or F2. You can also call boot menu, for this, each computer or laptop has its own key (see documentation). When the PC is started from a flash drive or disk, we need to get into command line To do this, click on the “System Restore” item.

Next, go to the “Troubleshooting” section by clicking on the tile indicated in the screenshot.

Select the “Command Line” tool.

You can open the command line by pressing the combination Shift keys+ F10 on the language selection screen. However, this option does not always work.

In the command line, type diskpart and press the Enter button.

Now we need to get a list of partitions mounted on the computer. To do this, enter list volume and press Enter.

A list of sections appears. We need to remember the one on which Windows was installed. You can understand this by the size of the disk. IN in this case our partition has a capacity of 31 GB, this is Volume 2 with the letter D. Let's move on. Exit diskpart by entering the exit command.

Continue the reset Windows password, write a phrase like: move c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe and press Enter.

Next line, which you need to enter: copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe and press Enter.

If you followed our steps and entered your drive name correctly, then everything went fine. All that remains is to enter the wpeutil reboot command and press Enter again. Next, our PC will reboot and you will see the start of diagnostics.

This will be followed by the process automatic recovery and in our case it will simply reset the password.

Note: the entire procedure described above boiled down to the fact that the cmd.exe file was copied to the System32 directory and received a new name utilman.exe. This will make it possible to activate the command line without logging into Windows.

When the computer starts, on the password entry screen, click on the “ Special abilities"We circled it in red in the screenshot.

The whole trick is that at the last stage we replaced standard tool Windows 10 to the command line and now “Ten” launches it, not realizing that this is no longer the same program. Go ahead, enter the following operator into CMD.exe: net username your account new_password and press Enter.

If your login consists of two or more words, it must be entered in quotation marks. And if you don’t know your login, just enter it net user s and Windows 10 will show you all users on the system.

Ready. Now you can log in with a new password without rebooting the system. Don't forget to return the list of special features back after Windows Explorer 10 running as administrator.

Another option on how to remove the password from a Windows 10 computer

In order to use this method, you need to have Windows 10 Professional installed on your PC. The described option works with an already running command line; we discussed above how to call it through the accessibility button. The action algorithm will be like this:

Launch the command line and enter the following into it: net user Administrator / active: yes (if your Windows English release, or it was such but you Russified it, instead of “Administrator” we enter Administrator) and finally press Enter.

Now you need to restart the PC, after rebooting you will have the choice of the Administrator user, who can log in to the system without entering a password.

Just click on the name “Administrator” and log in.

Sometimes the second user appears even before reboot Windows 10. Therefore, before you start rebooting, look in the lower left corner, perhaps an administrator has already been added there.

But we need a password change, so let's move on. Once you are logged in (this may take a while the first time), click right key Click the "Start" button and select the "Computer Management" menu.

We follow the path indicated in the screenshot. In the right part of the window, click on the name of the user who forgot the password and select from context menu item indicated by number 2 in the screenshot.

Windows will notify us that changing the password is dangerous (we advise you to read the text in full), but we click “Continue”.

It's time to change your password. Enter the code itself, confirm it and click “OK”.

Ready. The password has been changed and you can now log in to the system using it.

This option works exclusively with local accounts. If you need to recover your Microsoft account password, use the first method or create another user after logging in.

After everything necessary changes will be entered, return everything back. Go to the command prompt and type: net user Administrator /active:no. This will disable login through the administrator account without entering a password. Leaving things like this is very dangerous.

Done, now your Windows is the same as it was, and you can safely log in.

A new way to sign in without a password in Windows 10

Boot from installation media and when the language selection window appears, press Shift and F10 at the same time. (On some laptops you need to add the Fn button to this combination).

The command line will open, which is what we needed. Type regedit and press Enter. This will launch the Registry Editor. Go to the registry section indicated in the screenshot.

Open the “File” menu and select “Load hive” from it.

Open the C:\Windows\System32\config section and select the SYSTEM.

Note! The disk on your system may be different. For example, in our case it is not C, but D.

Windows will ask for the name of the future parameter, this does not play any role, write any word in small Latin letters.

Click on the newly created section system registry and select the Setup folder inside it. In the right part of the window you need to set parameters for the following keys:

Assign the cmd.exe parameter to the CmdLine key;

We assign parameter 2 to the SetupType key.

We finish with the registry editor. We need to unload the bush. To do this, select the key we created on the left side of the program.

And through the “File” menu we unload the bush into place.

Confirm the action by clicking on the “Yes” button.

After these manipulations, you need to close regedit and the black command line window. Reboot into Windows 10 and when it starts you will see a command prompt open.

Now the user's password can be reset by the operator: net user user_password, exactly as described above. Once the changes are made, type exit at the command line and press Enter. If you close the window with a cross, everything changes made may disappear.

In the future, return the system to initial position not required. Any changes you made while working with the command line will automatically be restored to their default value.

If none of the described options helped you or after a series of experiments the system stopped starting at all, use the mode.

Windows 10 password reset programs

On the Internet you can find utilities that are supposedly capable of removing the password from a Windows computer. We do not recommend using such software. The fact is that, firstly, it needs to be written to a bootable USB flash drive (and these are additional difficulties), and secondly, utilities most often work by brute-force methods and, if the password medium difficulty, you will not be able to find the right combination. But most importantly, why is this necessary? After all, using our instructions, you will restore your forgotten code. Moreover, there are several options that are enough for any situation.

This is where we will end. Now you know how to remove the password on Windows 10 in several ways. We hope our article helped you, but if you have any difficulties, describe them in the comments and we or other users will help solve the situation.

Video on how to reset a forgotten Windows 10 password

Lost account password Windows user 10 can be a very unpleasant surprise. Indeed, as a result of this, access to the data of a particular computer is completely lost. It’s good if you know the password for the Administrator account, from which you can manage passwords for users on a specific computer. But sometimes it turns out to be forgotten or lost.

Sometimes you urgently need to gain access to a computer for which you do not know the password. Necessary information is right at your fingertips, but you have no opportunity to use it. How to restore access to your computer and your files or documents?

What to do if you forgot your Windows 10 password

Step 1: Recover data from a computer whose password has been lost

If, as a result of losing your account password, Windows entries 10 lost access to your data, one of effective ways their recovery will be using the program Hetman Partition Recovery.

For this:

Download the program, install and run it from another account of this computer. Check out the program's capabilities and step-by-step instructions.
By default, the user will be prompted to use File Recovery Wizard. Pressing the button "Further" and the program will prompt you to select the drive from which you want to recover files.
Double-click on the disk the files from which you want to recover and select the type of analysis. Specify "Full Analysis" and wait for the disk scanning process to complete.
After the scanning process is completed, you will be provided with recovery files. Select the ones you need and click the button "Restore".
Select one of the suggested ways to save files. Do not save files to a disk from which these files have been deleted - they can be overwritten.

Step 2: Recover the Windows 10 built-in Administrator account password

Looking for how to recover your account password Windows Administrator 10? Do the following:

Step 3: Programs for recovering Windows 10 account passwords

Recovering Windows 10 account passwords can be done using special programs to reset or recover passwords. Such programs are especially relevant in case of loss of the Administrator account password (since the passwords of other accounts can be reset using this account).

For this:

Download and install a program to reset or recover account passwords.
Create a bootable CD using this program: DVD disc or USB drive(if necessary).
Restart your computer and boot from the bootable media you created.
Reset or recover passwords for the required account.

Step 4: Recover a forgotten user password using Windows 10

Before you begin to recover your user account password, check the password hint, which is located on the welcome screen next to the password entry field.

If the hint did not help you remember your password:

Step 5: Boot disk or flash drive to recover Windows 10 password

You can create a boot disk to recover your password yourself or use one that already exists. ready-made option(which can be purchased or downloaded).

Recover your password using LiveCD

You can recover your account password by starting your computer with using LiveCD– alternative portable version operating system. This method is relevant if you cannot boot your computer or connect HDD to another system.

For this:

Use the installation disk image

If for some reason you did not create a system recovery disk, and Windows has lost its functionality, then it can be restored using an operating system recovery disk image.

Such an image can be created immediately after installing the OS and software or at any other time.

You can download free utility from Microsoft and create an image. To do this, do the following:

Note. Do not run the system repair disc from working Windows. To use it correctly, install the system image media in the BIOS as the first boot device and reboot the computer.

Important: It is necessary to create an image only on a working system that is not infected with viruses and does not contain errors. After recovery you will receive exact copy system at the time of its creation.

Step 6: Restore access to your account on the Microsoft website

IN latest versions Windows account user record integrated with Microsoft account. To manage some Windows account functions, work with the operating system and configure it, access to it is required.

If you need to restore access to your Microsoft account:

Step 7: Perform a clean install of Windows

In case none of the above methods did not lead to required result, reinstall Windows.

In order to perform a clean installation of Windows, you need to create installation disk or other media from which it is planned to install the operating system.

Boot your computer from the installation disc. To do this, you may need to change the boot order in the BIOS (or UEFI for more modern computers).

Following the installer menu items, specify the drive on which you want to install Windows. To do this you will need to format it. If you are not satisfied with the quantity or size local disks, they can be completely deleted and redistributed.

Remember that formatting, deleting or reallocating disks will delete all files from hard drive.

After specifying the disk for installing Windows, the copying process will start system files and installation of the operating system. You will not be required during installation additional actions. During the installation, the computer screen will go dark several times for short periods of time, and the computer will restart itself to complete some stages of the installation.

Depending on your version of Windows, at one point you may be required to select or enter basic parameters personalization, computer operating mode on the network, as well as account settings or create a new one.

Once the desktop boots, the clean installation of Windows is complete.

Note. Before you begin clean install Windows, make sure you have drivers for everything in advance installed devices and the safety of your files. Download and save the drivers to a separate storage medium, and create a backup copy for important data.

Nowadays, there are practically no fundamental means of protection against hacking. computer devices and gaining access to personal confidential information user.

Setting an administrator password is also not that effective at protecting your computer, since there are at least several ways to hack and bypass it.

Hack the Administrator's password and log in using his account - easily and effortlessly

What these methods are will be discussed in this article.

Tip 1. Reset your password using the Command Interpreter in Windows

To do this, we sequentially perform the following steps:

Tip 2. Reset the password for the Administrator account in Safe Mode

To reset the built-in “Administrator” account, we proceed step by step, according to the instructions below.

Step 1. Restart the computer and press the F8 key while loading.

To enter Safe Mode when you turn on or restart the computer, press the F8 key

Step 2. In the menu that appears, we are asked to select one of additional options boot the Windows operating system - select “Safe Mode”.

In the menu of additional boot options, select Safe Mode

Step 3. Next, log in to the system using the built-in Administrator account, which usually does not have a password by default. To do this, enter “Administrator” or the same word in Russian in the login field. Leave the password field blank and just press “Enter.”

In safe mode, select the non-password-protected built-in Administrator account

Step 4. A warning window appears warning that Windows is in Safe Mode, click confirmation “Yes”.

Click "Yes" to continue working in Safe Mode

Step 5. We start working in security mode - as soon as the desktop loads, click the following sequence of options:

Start –> Control Panel –> User Accounts

In Safe Mode, select "User Accounts"

Step 6. Place the cursor over the user name whose password you need to edit or reset, and click on this account icon.

Step 7. In the menu that appears on the left, select the “Change Password” item, enter a new password and confirm it. If we are simply resetting the password, then we leave this field empty.

In the menu on the left, select the “Change Password” option, then enter a new password and then confirm it

Step 8. Click the “Change Password” button.

Enter the password and confirm it

Step 9. First close the “User Accounts” window, then the “Control Panel” window.

Step 10. Reboot the computer.

Tip 3. How to reset the password for the built-in Administrator account

This advice will be useful to those who are faced with a problem when the built-in account is protected by a password, which we, of course, conveniently forgot. So, we act according to the instructions below:

Hack the Administrator password in Windows 8

For the Windows 8 operating system there is a easy way Resetting the Administrator password. All you need to do to do this is follow the steps below:

Step 1. Go to the “System Restore” section, and then the “Diagnostics” console, where we select the “Advanced options” section.

Go to "Diagnostics" and select "Advanced options"

Step 2. Go to the command line and enter the following command:

copy from:\windows\System32\sethc.exe from:\temp – and copy the sethc.exe file so as not to accidentally lose it.

Copy the file "sethc.exe" to avoid losing it

Step 3. Now on the command line we write the following:

copy c:\windows\System32\cmd.exe c:\windows\System32\sethc.exe, that is, instead of “sethc.exe” we enter “cmd.exe”.

Replace the file “sethc.exe” with “cmd.exe”

Step 4. Exit the command console using the “exit” command.

Step 5. Reboot our computer and boot with the usual parameters.

Step 6. Press the “Shift” key five times to launch the command line.

Press the Shift key five times

Step 7. Enter in command console“lusrmgr.msc” and see the administrator’s name.

Enter “lusrmgr.msc” into the command console and see the administrator’s name

Note: if the account is disabled, it can be activated using the command “net user “Admin_name” /active:yes”

Step 8. Set a new password - type the command “net user “Administrator name” password”.

Using the command net user Administrator name password set a new password

Step 9. Reboot the computer and log into the administrator account with a new password.

It should be noted that this method equally suitable for more earlier versions operating systems.

In these simple ways you can reset the administrator password on a computer and laptop in Windows 7, 8 and 10 operating systems.

Useful video on the topic

The videos below will clearly demonstrate how you can also hack the Administrator password.

Reset the Administrator password in Windows 7 using a small program

How to reset your Windows 8 login password

Resetting the Administrator password in Windows 10

And again I'm back to working on resetting account passwords, this time I'll talk about a bootable USB flash drive with the program Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home, after this I will continue to search for new effective ways to reset the administrator password.

The program does not have a Russian interface, but this is not a problem, especially since in this article I will show everything and tell you with an example. Also, work will proceed without problems, as in regular computer with BIOS and on a device with UEFI BIOS.

Creating a bootable USB flash drive from the Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home image

Well, let's go to the official website of the utility and download the version Home– the only free version is http://www.lazesoft.com/download.html.

Run the installation of the program and follow the installation instructions, everything is very easy. Then launch the icon program.

In this window we need to select the item "Disk Image & Clone".

A section opens where we click on the item on the left Build Bootable CD/DVD/ USB Flash Disk.

In the next window select Windows version, which you have installed and press the button "Next".

Now we are given a choice: create boot disk, or a flash drive. The most preferable option is with a flash drive. Insert the flash drive into the field USB Flash select the letter of the flash drive, then press "Start".

Before creation boot drive there will be a warning that all data will be deleted from it. Initially, they should have been moved if they were important to you. Then we agree with the warning.

We wait for a while and then press the button "Finish". Bootable USB flash drive Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home is ready.

How in previous version OS, in Windows 10, when logging in, two methods of user authorization are used - through an account in Microsoft and through a local account. Next, we will tell you how to reset the administrator password in both cases, if the latter has forgotten it, and how to create a disk, a special flash drive or other media whose capabilities allow you to restore account data.

The most effective and most importantly in a safe way will be to reset the password using .

Changing your local account password

To reset a Windows 10 user password, you will need an installation or boot disk. You need to go into command line mode:

You can get to the command line easier if, when logging in from the installation drive, when a window appears with the ability to select a language, press Shift and F10 at the same time. If this method does not work, you will have to proceed as described above.

After the window opens, enter sequentially (pressing Enter each time):

diskpart
list volume.

These entries will bring up a list in front of you HDD partitions. You need to select from them the disk with Windows 10 installed and remember the partition letter. Moreover, it does not necessarily have to be the letter C. System partition can be designated, for example, by the letter D, which we will use to enter the following commands:

move d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman1.exe;
copy d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe.

Let us remind you that instead of entering punctuation marks at the end of each line, you need to press Enter. With these steps we simply copied to system directory system32 file cmd.exe and changed the name to utilman.exe.

If, after executing the above commands, you see messages about the successful movement and copying of files, then enter the line wpeutil reboot, after which the computer will reboot. Next you need to download Windows 10 in the usual way, for which you remove the installation disk from the DVD drive or the flash drive from the USB connector.

Once the download is complete:

In the user authorization window, select the special icon. opportunities located at the bottom right.
IN command line write down:
- net user name password, where you need to enter the login for your account in Windows 10 as the name, and the combination of characters that you will use further as the password.
Press Enter.

If the administrator's name is more than one word, enter it in quotes. If necessary, you can remember it by entering net command users - a list of each user in the system will be displayed.

Creating a password reset disk

You can provide in advance the possibility of resetting the password for the administrator account in Windows 10, however, only local, before the user forgets it. For this, a special medium is created - it can even be a floppy disk:

Insert the drive into the drive;
Go to the user account component by opening “Start” and clicking on Control Panel;
In the left column, follow the link that creates an administrator password reset disk;(5)
A special wizard will open, following whose instructions you can create the tool you need.

It is important that the flash drive is not formatted during operation; no information is deleted from it. It will just be created new file userkey.psw, which, if necessary, can be transferred to disk or any other medium - it will work exactly the same.

Using the created drive in Windows 10 is also easy. For this:

A flash drive or disk created for resetting the administrator password is inserted into the USB port or drive, respectively;
Incorrect account information is entered in the form;
Below the input form you will then see a link to reset your data.

Will open special application, as a result of following the instructions of which accounting information will become available to you again.

Account recovery application

For this, a simple free program Online NT Password & Registry Editor. To place it, you can use a regular flash drive, which can be easily used if necessary. An ISO image of burning to disk or files for transferring to USB can be downloaded from http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html.

Resetting your Microsoft online account

The described methods will not help if you use a Microsoft user account to log into Windows 10. However, resetting this data is even easier. This can be done, for example, on another computer, laptop or even a phone with the Internet. If you can log into the Network from the lock screen of your PC, then you can also use it. For this:

If you specify your email, a letter will be sent to it with a link to reset your current data to Microsoft. It will be sent to your phone verification code, which can also be used to return data to your Windows 10 administrator account.

Enough part using different passwords in programs, websites and applications, users encounter problems such as losing their password required resource. Both Microsoft accounts and local accounts in the Windows 10 operating system are no exception. In this case, most in the best possible way The solution to the problem with logging into your account is to reset your password. And in this step-by-step instruction with photos, we will show you how to reset your password in Windows 10.

Step 1

How to reset your Microsoft account password on Windows 10

In order to reset your Microsoft account password, you must use the service on the official website login.live.com. Here we click the “Login” button. It should be noted that you can reset your Microsoft account password on another computer or any device with access to the Internet.

Step 3

Next step Click the line “Forgot your password”.

Step 5

At this stage, enter the characters shown in the picture and click “Next”.

Step 6

At this stage, you must confirm that the account belongs to you. To do this, enter additional address Email, which was specified as a backup to restore access to the account. Then click the “Send code” button.

Step 7

Enter the received code and click “Next”.

Step 8

Now enter the new password twice and click the “Next” button.

Step 9

Password reset. To sign in to your Microsoft account, click the “Next” button.

Step 10

At this point, enter the email address that you used to sign in to your Microsoft account and click Next.

Step 11

Now enter your new password and click on the “Login” button.

Step 12

How to reset local password using Live CD

To reset your password using this method, you will need a Live CD with which you can download and access file system or flash drive for Windows recovery 10. In our example, I will use Windows recovery tools on a flash drive to reset the password.

We start by connecting the device and waiting for it to load. Next Select the installation language and open the command line using the “Shift” and “F10” key combination.

Now in the command line window that opens, enter the commands “diskpart” and “list volume” one by one, after each command press the “Enter” button.

After entering the “list volume” command and pressing the “Enter” button, you will be shown the hard drive partitions. Here you need to remember the drive letter on which the Windows 10 operating system is installed, since the order of the letters to indicate hard sections disk can be automatically changed. In our photo example, this is drive “C”. Now enter the command “exit” and press the “Enter” button.

Step 13

The next step is to enter “move c:windowssystem32utilman.exe c:windowssystem32utilman2.exe” and press “Enter”. Then enter the command “copy c:windowssystem32cmd.exe c:windowssystem32utilman.exe” and also press “Enter”. Now restart your computer and select boot from system disk computer.

After your computer boots up, click the Accessibility icon and open Command Prompt. Here enter “net user Username new password", then enter the new password. To view all computer usernames After changing it, you can log into your local account using the new password.

Step 14

Resetting your password in Windows 10 using the command line

The second method is relevant for those users who use the professional or corporate version of the Windows 10 operating system. Here you need to open the command line and enter the command “net user Administrator/active:yes" and press the "Enter" key.

Step 15

After a successfully executed command, another local account “Administrator” will appear in the list of users, which can be logged in without entering a password.

Step 16

Now click right click Click the “Start” button and select “Computer Management” from the list that opens.