How to reset the password on Windows 10: the simplest methods

Unfortunately, without registering on the official Microsoft website and creating an account with a username and password, you can not install Windows 10. Not surprisingly, in the end, many users are beginning to wonder: "How to reset the password on Windows 10?". However, this procedure can relate to the main Microsoft account, and local "accountants". Let's see how to do this in the simplest way.

Problems with passwords and accounts

Let's start with the most important problem. Firstly, a person is not a machine, sometimes it is natural for him to forget certain things. If, for example, the password set during the installation of the system is simply not recorded by the person, lost or forgotten, the entry into Windows at startup will be simply impossible.

Secondly, in the process of registering on the same official Microsoft site for the installation of the system, primitive combinations like 123456789 are not accepted. The registration is built in such a way that it is required to introduce a certain combination, from the security point of view, that is difficult to crack or select. Alas, this often leads to the most unpredictable consequences.

Thirdly, such passwords can be too complicated or long, which, naturally, makes it difficult to enter them every time you start. And that's why many users want to abandon such a procedure. How to reset the password on the 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 break his head a little, for not everything is so simple.

How to reset your Windows 10 account password online

Let's start, perhaps, with the simplest. How do I reset a forgotten Windows 10 password that was applied to a Microsoft account? Naturally, you should refer to the official resource of the corporation. No, of course, you can delete all "accounting" on the computer, but the very record with its password will not go anywhere.

To perform this operation, go to the official accounts.live.com resource where you need to select the password change section. As a reason, you can indicate its loss (in the paragraphs there is a line "I do not remember my password"). After that, you will need to enter the address of the "electronic" or phone number to which "accounting" is tied. When you receive the appropriate notification, you will only need to go to the required link and change the old password to the new one on the lock screen (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 administration tools. But only the system will have to be booted using a flash drive or a disk like the LiveCD or the installation disk of the "dozens" itself.

After the window with the suggestion of language selection appears, 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, the wpeutil reboot command is used to reboot.

The download will be made from the system partition (if this did not happen, you need to set the priority in the BIOS settings). Then in the password input window we use the accessibility section where we assign the command "net user User name New password" without quotes (to view all users, the net users command is used).

After that, you can log in with a new password. If you are using a non-installation disk of "tens", first make a copy of the file cmd.exe, place it in the system32 system drive partition, 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 a different, equally effective way. Again, first we boot from the installation suit and use the combination Shift + F10.

After that, we do the above operations, but after the authorization window appears we use special features, and in the line we enter the net user Administrator / active: yes, after which we overload the system. Now we have the profile of the user's profile activated. Click on it, and then enter the search phrase "Computer Management". Now we use the section of local users, where we select our account. Right click to call the menu with the password string, then save the changes, despite all the warnings of the system.

How to reset the password on the tablet (Windows 10) or another mobile device

In principle, almost all the actions are reduced to using the same command line, but only initially the device must be started from a bootable SD card.

But the easiest way to use the built-in means of resetting the settings to factory settings.

Is it worth doing such things

Naturally, the very question of how to reset the password on Windows 10, has the opposite side. How appropriate is this procedure? Of course, if this is a home terminal and no one else works on it except the owner, there are no questions. If it's a computer or a laptop that is part of a local network with several authorized users, then you should think a hundred times before taking such steps. In fact sometimes it would not be desirable, that someone changed, say, local adjustments or used the confidential information without your knowledge. In general, the decision for the user.

However, in almost all cases with Windows own means, in addition to deleting the account, it will not be possible to change the password. Here, as already noted above, you need to use external bootable media (flash drive, disk or removable memory card). In the absence of those, nothing will come out. In this case, even the re-installation of the system does not always work. After all, when the "accounting" of Microsoft is activated, all the same, "Winda" will refer to it. It goes without saying that it can be deactivated, but there will immediately be a question about access through local registration data. However, they will not be removed either (especially those that the system sets itself by default).

As for the removal of "accounts", no longer needed on the local computer, then any user who has administrative access rights can perform such operations. At the same time, it may sometimes be advisable to remove the registration of the so-called super administrator, so that you do not have to run some processes on his behalf all the time, which is undoubtedly annoying for many users. However, you also need to be extremely cautious, because if you have an active "account" of Microsoft, the system even after this procedure will refer to it. And where is the guarantee that the user remembers her login password? In general, what to say? Be vigilant and do not do anything stupid, because then you just have to reinstall the system, and no methods of impact in terms of recovery (rollback to the previous state) will not help.

But with mobile devices everything is much easier, because it is unlikely that several registered users will work on one tablet or smartphone.