[Solved] How to Open A Laptop Without Password

How can I get into my PC when I forgot the password 

Since there’re still some PCs without fingerprint sensor or face recognition function, to protect data stored on the PC, many users would use the password. However, when you forget the password, you will be unable to unlock your PC.

When you’re refused to open the PC, you needn’t worry about reinstalling your Windows OS and losing all data on it. There are some useful methods to get into your PC, even when you forget the password.

In this post, we’ll recommend 5 methods on how to get into a laptop without password. Let’s go.

How to open a laptop without a password

Stop seeking the answers of how to access laptop without password on various forums, the 5 methods shared in this section will assist you.

✿ Method 1. Answer the security questions

When you build the password, in case to forget the password, you will be asked to choose and set some security questions. So if you set the security when creating the password, the problem may get easy to deal with.

Step 1. When you input the wrong password, you can see the “Reset password” button, click it.

Step 2. Then the security questions you set before will show in the new interface, answer these security questions. Then follow the guidance to reset the lost password, and unlock your laptop with it.

 ✿ Method 2. Reset the password with a password reset disk

When you search the solutions about forgetting your password of a PC, most people would suggest you to reset the password with a password reset disk. If you have created it before, you can directly use it to change the password, if not, you can skip to the next method.

Step 1. Insert the prepared password reset disk, then click “Reset password” in the locked interface.

Step 2. The “Password Reset Wizard” will appear, read the words about it and click “Next”.

Step 3. In the new window, choose the target password reset disk and click “Next”.

Step 4. Then type a new password and password hint, click “Next”.

Step 5. When you see “Completing the Password Reset Wizard”, click “Finish”.

 ✿ Method 3. Run the Microsoft Account Recovery

When the laptop password is for a Microsoft account, you can reset it with a Microsoft Account Recovery. The process to reset Microsoft account is simple, let’s see how to access a laptop without password using Microsoft Account Recovery.

Step 1. Open the Microsoft password reset page on another PC, then type your email address (or phone number) and click “Next”.

Step 2. It will verify your identity, follow the wizard to check your identification.

Step 3. In the new window, you can reset the forgotten password, click “Next” to save it.

 ✿ Method 4. Reset the password via CMD

How do you unlock a laptop without a password? If you’re familiar with the laptop, you can try to reset the lost password via the CMD command.

Step 1. In the Windows logging interface, press “Shift” and click “Restart” at the same time. Then click “Troubleshoot” in the new interface.

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

Step 3. When you open the CMD tool, input “diskpart” and press “Enter”.

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

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

Step 6. Then type “copy E:\windows\system32\cmd.exe E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe”, and 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, then press “Enter”. Input “exit” and hit “Enter”, then enter the new password to log in to your laptop.

 ✿ Method 5. Reset your password with a practical tool

From the above content, all the methods mentioned have limitations. If you cannot successfully unlock your PC with these methods, you can try the easy-to-use AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, it’s a practical password resetting tool for Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP.

With this powerful utility, even when you forget the password, you can create a bootable USB, and then reset/remove the forgotten password with it on the Windows Preinstallation Environment. when you successfully create the bootable USB, you can also use this bootable USB on any Windows PC.

How to open a laptop without password with it? Let’s see how it works.

Step 1. Insert a USB into another PC, download and open this useful tool, then click "Tools"> “Reset Windows Password”.

Step 2. A window will pop out to ask you to create the bootable USB, click “Next”.

Step 3. Choose the USB device and click “Proceed”.

Step 4. Read the popped notice that the target USB will be formatted and click “Yes”.

Step 5. Wait patient, the tool is creating the password reset USB, click “Finish” when it is created successfully.

Step 6. Take out the USB from the PC and insert it on your laptop, then restart it. You’ll be asked to change the boot drive, boot the PC from the created USB, then choose the Windows system and click “Next”.

Step 7. All accounts on the PC will be displayed, click the target account, then tick “Remove Account Password” or “Reset Account Password”, click “Next”.

Step 8. Click “Reset Account Password” to set the new password, and then click “Yes”.

Final line

Look! From this tutorial, you can learn how to open a laptop without password with 5 methods. If you cannot try the first 4 methods, the AOMEI Partition Assistant can be a good option to reset the PC password.

When you want to solve PC problems like C drive is full, computer freezes, system crash, etc., you can also turn to this functional tool. Besides, it also provides the Server version for users who need to reset password on Windows Server.