How to Change Administrator Password on Windows 10 [4 Ways]

What is Administrator on Windows 10?

An Administrator is an account that provides the right for the users to manage everything on their PC. If you are the Administrator, you can install applications, change PC settings, and execute other operations on your PC.

However, you cannot access this PC if you lost the Administrator password. Moreover, you won’t be able to open the locked computer. So to normally use the PC, you may need some effective methods to reset the lost Administrator password.  

In this guidance, you can get 4 methods about how to change Administrator password on Windows 10.

How to change Administrator password on Windows 10

How to change Administrator password on Windows 10 if forgotten? Don’t be desperate when you forget the Administrator password, because there are some useful solutions for you to reset it. Please turn to the suitable method based on your condition.

● Way 1. Change the password with CMD

How to change Administrator on Windows 10 with Command Prompt? Be regarded as a practical built-in tool, CMD can not only perform disk managing functions like resizing partitions, changing drive letters, formatting disks, etc., but also help you to solve the issue of losing your Administrator password.

Step 1. In the PC logging interface, press “Shift” and click “Restart” at the same time, then click “Troubleshoot”.

Step 2. Click “Advanced options” and “Command Prompt” in turn.

Step 3. Then you’ll run the CMD tool, input “diskpart” and press “Enter”.

Step 4. In Diskpart, input “list volume” and hit “Enter” to see all the volumes, please remember the drive letter of the system drive. Input “exit” and press “Enter” to close the Diskpart.

Step 5. When you return to CMD window, type “move E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe E:\”, then press “Enter” to move the utilman.exe file.

Step 6. Type “copy E:\windows\system32\cmd.exe E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe”, then press “Enter” to copy the cmd.exe file to the target path.

Step 7. Input “wpeutil reboot” and press “Enter”.

Step 8. Click the human icon to open the CMD window, then type the net user password and press “Enter”. Input “exit” and hit “Enter”, then enter the new password to get into the PC.

● Way 2. Change the password with the Windows installation disk

If you have a Windows installation disk, you can try to reset the change Administrator password on Windows 10 with it.

Step 1. Insert the installation disk into the PC, then boot the computer from it. When the Windows Setup interface, press “Shift +F10” to turn to CMD.

Step 2. Input “copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\” and “copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe”, then press “Enter”. Turn out the installation disk, then input and run the “wpeutil reboot” command to reboot your PC.

Step 3. When you see the logging-in interface, press “Shift” 5 times. The CMD will run again, then input “net user cocosenor *” and press “Enter” to reset the password, then you’ll be asked to confirm the password.  

 ● Way 3. Change the password via password reset disk

Password reset disk seems to be a simple method for you to change the forgotten password, if you have produced it before the password loss, you can try the following process to reset the password.

Note: If you didn’t create the password reset disk in advance, this method will be useless.

Step 1. In the following interface, click “Reset password”.

Step 2. You’ll be welcomed to the Password Reset Wizard, click “Next”.

Step 3. Insert the password reset disk and select the key disk, click “Next”.

Step 4. Then you can reset the user account password, click “Next”.

Step 5. When you see the new window pop out, click “Finish”.

Reliable Administrator password resetting tool- AOMEI Partition Assistant

In fact, you have another good choice to change Administrator password: AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. This powerful tool can meet your requirement to reset a computer password. Its “Reset Password” can not only reset the Administrator password, but also change the local password.

In a bright and clean operating interface, it can create a bootable USB to help you finish the task of resetting Administrator password. You just need to click several times, then you can reset the missing password.

After resetting the password, you can use its other functions to improve PC performance, such as Disk Clone Wizard, Migrate OS to SSD, Allocate Free Space, Move installed programs to another drive, etc.

How to change Administrator password on Windows 10? Let’s have a look.

Step 1. Connect a USB with another PC in normal use, then download and open this reliable tool, click “Tools” at the top toolbar, and select the “Reset Windows Password” option.

Step 2. You need to create a bootable USB, click “Next” to continue.

Step 3. Select the target USB boot device and click “Proceed”.

Step 4. Please read the words about creating bootable USB (All data on the USB will be deleted), click “Yes”.

Step 5. Wait for a while, it will create the password reset USB, then click “Finish”.

Step 6. Take out the USB and then insert it into your computer, then restart it. You’ll change the boot drive, boot the PC from the created USB and choose the OS and click “Next”.

Step 7. Choose one account and tick “Reset Account Password”, then click “Next”.

Step 8. In the new window, you can set the new password and click “Yes”.  

Verdict

To conclude, this post has provided you with 4 methods on how to change Administrator password on Windows 10. If the former methods can help you, it can be much better. If those methods cannot work, you can try the AOMEI Partition Assistant. By the way, there’s a unique Server Version for Windows Server users.