Wednesday, February 28, 2024

How to Reset Windows 10 Local Account Password Using Recovery USB

 Use Windows recovery USB to boot to command line windows. From there we can replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe. And after restart and click EASE OF ACCESS button it will lanunch command line window.

After that we can use the following command line to change password or add account to admin group.

Enable administrator:

net user administrator /active:yes

Overrite the password:

net user username password

Add account to admin group:

net localgroup administrators username /add


More detail here:

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/153850-how-to-reset-windows-local-admin-password-using-recovery-usb







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