How to Get Administrative password on Windows PC

The administrator account allows you to fully utilize Windows. You can easily conduct all fundamental Windows procedures, such as altering system settings via administrative permission. Now that the Windows system has been upgraded to Windows 11, newer Windows systems include several new account modifications as compared to older systems.

Therefore, in this post, we'll show you numerous admin account scenarios in various Windows versions before guiding you through how to change your administrator password on Windows 10. 

Administrative accounts on different Windows systems

▶Default administrative account
If you're an experienced Windows user, you may be familiar with the default Administrator account. In the era of the Windows XP system, there was a default Administrator account to help users fix problems when Administrative rights were required. But, most users left the password for this account blank, in this case, if you never changed it, anyone with access to a computer and a little know-how could enter a system with full administrator capabilities.

Worse still, the Administrator account would give full admin privileges to any application, which means any virus could get onto your system and do whatever it wanted. Thus, there were no checks and balances in place to prevent you from doing something harmful with this Administrator account.

▶Newer Windows administrative account
There is no available system-wide Administrator account by default in Windows Vista to enhance the security mechanism to secure your PC. Microsoft deactivated the built-in Admin account by default beginning with Windows Vista. Instead, it included User Account Control, a feature that is still available in Windows 10 and Windows 11, allowing you to temporarily give admin powers while using any account as long as you have an admin password.

Well, you still can reactivate the built-in Administrator account, but we recommend that you do not. That account always runs with admin privileges and never requests confirmation for sensitive tasks. This is a significant security concern since malware may readily operate without any hindrances.

Also, you need admin access to enable the default Administrator account, thus it's not a viable option if you've forgotten your admin password.

What do you do if you forgot admin password on Windows 10?

First, let us mention again: on Windows 10, there is no default administrator password, but just one administrator password, the original one. Second, you can’t GET or FIND administrative password on Windows, but you do, can reset your Admin password on Windows.

Most primary accounts in the most recent Windows system versions, including Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11, are configured to be administrator accounts, therefore the password for administrator is your local account password.

Next, we’ll show you how to “find” administrative password on Windows 10.

How to get administrative password on Windows 10

In this section, you can see how to reset administrative password with Command Prompt, and how to remove or reset admin password without logging into Windows.

Method 1. How to find administrator password Windows 10 using Command Prompt

As we mentioned, you can’t FIND administrative password, but you can reset the password. Using correct commands can reset a new administrative password for your computer.

Step 1. Type "Command Prompt" in the search bar and run it as administrator.

Step 2. When it opens, you need to type “net user username password” to change the administrator password. (Replace username and password with your own admin username and new password)

Method 2. Reset administrative password via password reset tool

If your computer only has one account which is the admin account but you can’t successfully log into the system because you forgot the password or some other cases, then you can go for help from AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.

This app is one of the best utilities for resetting administrator passwords. With a graphical user interface, you can simply accomplish the resetting procedure with a few clicks rather than typing out the tedious command lines.

Most significantly, this program is highly compatible: you can reset your Windows 10 administrator password as well as your password on Windows 11/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP (32 or 64-bit) computer. Furthermore, its "Reset Password" option is available for both administrator and local accounts.

Stage 1. Create Windows 10 password reset USB

Step 1. Prepare an empty USB and connect it to a working Windows computer. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. Click "Tools"> "Reset Windows Password" on the main interface.

Step 2. Click "Next" to agree to create a WinPE bootable USB.

Step 3. Then, tick the "USB Boot Device" option, choose your prepared USB from the extended menu, and click "Proceed".

Step 4. Note that the USB flash drive needs to be formatted and all data on it will be wiped. Please back up anything important on it and redo it.

Then, the password reset disk is created successfully, unplug the USB and connect it to the computer where you want to find Windows 10 administrator password.

Stage 2. Remove/Reset Windows 10 administrative password

Step 1. Change the boot order to boot from this bootable USB, and you will enter into AOMEI Partition Assistant automatically. Click "Reset Password", select the Windows system you would like to operate, and click "Next".

Step 2. Then, select the account you would like to operate, tick "Reset Account Password", and click "Next".

Step 3. Then, you will be allowed to set a new password. After you confirm the new password, please click "Yes" to start the password reset.

After you change a new administrative password, you can log into the PC with the admin account and modify some basic settings with admin privileges.

To sum up

If you’re not sure how to get administrative password, this post offers you 2 ways. You can use CMD to change the admin password in the system and use AOMEI Partition Assistant to reset the password without logging into.

Besides password resetting, this handy tool also has many other useful functions, such as disk clone, OS migration, App Mover, MBR/GPT data-safe converter, etc. And there is the Server Edition for Windows Server users.