Change windows 10 password

Now we will log into the Windows 10 system under a local user whose password we do not know.

An article without pictures, but short and to the point

The first part of the work

Briefly for those who know:

1. Boot from the installation flash drive
2. Run command prompt in windows recovery shell
3. Replace file Utilman.exe on cmd.exe
4. Reboot

On the password screensaver we click on the button "Special Features" and it will open command line. Because we replaced the file. If everything worked out, see Part Two.

Once again and in more detail:

1. If you don't know how to boot into flash drives, then it's better not to do anything further and ask for help.
2. Once you've booted to the installer, go to the command line: System Restore -> Troubleshooting (Diagnostics) -> Advanced Options -> Command Prompt
3. Substitution of file. If Windows is on drive C:

C: dir cd Windows cd System32 dir Utilman.exe rename Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.orig dir utilman* copy cmd.exe Utilman.exe exit

After rebooting, we go to the splash screen with a password that we will now bypass.

Part two:

Click on "accessibility" and the "command prompt" should open.

1. Set a password for the user

net user 'username' 'newpassword'

Where as you understand:
username — the username is most likely what is displayed on your screen, for example ura;
newpassword - new password, for example 1111

The finished line might look like this:

net user ura 1111

If you don't know the user name, you can use the command

whoim/user

You just changed your password to 1111, use it to log in.

Afterwards you can delete the file 'Utilman.exe' and rename 'Utilman.exe.orig' back to 'Utilman.exe'