[Step By Step] How to Reset Your Computer Password on Windows

How can I reset the forgotten PC password?

If you own a PC, the password can protect the data on it. However, once you forget the password, you will not get into the PC. It can be a large project to retrieve or reset it.

Therefore, to meet your requirement, we’ll talk about how to reset your computer password.

How to reset password on your computer

It is annoying to forget the computer password, especially when you want to work with the PC. In this part, 4 methods will be shared to reset computer password. Let's have a look.

▶ Method 1. Reset password with CMD

CMD is a practical disk managing tool on Windows system, apart from the functions like changing drive letter, resizing partitions, formatting disks, it can also reset the password.

Step 1. In the Windows logging interface, simultaneously press "Shift" and click "Restart". The Windows recovery mode will start, click "Troubleshoot".

Step 2. In the Advanced options window, click "Advanced options" and "Command Prompt" in turn.

Step 3. In the CMD interface, input "diskpart" and press "Enter".

Step 4. Type "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. In the CMD interface, type "move E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe E:\", press "Enter" to move the utilman.exe file to the root directory of the system drive.

Step 6. Input "copy E:\windows\system32\cmd.exe E:\windows\system32\utilman.exe", 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" to leave this tool and enter the new password to log in.

▶ Method 2. Reset password via the Microsoft Account Recovery

When you’re confused about resetting password, you can try to do it with Microsoft Account Recovery. The detailed steps are as follows:

Step 1. Open the Microsoft password reset website, type the email address (or the phone number) and click "Next".

Step 2. It will verify your identity, follow the guide to do it.

Step 3. In the pop-out window, reset the forgotten password.

▶ Method 3. Reset password online

When you cannot perform the password resetting, you can consider resetting the password online directly.

Step 1. Open the Microsoft account website, input your email address and click "Next".

Step 2. Input the password in the interface, click the link for forgot password. Next, type an alternative email address, then type the CAPTCHA characters and click "Next".

Step 3. Then input the code sent to the email address and click “Verify”. Follow the web to set all, click "Next".

Tip: If you didn't add enough information, it will ask you to provide more information, you need to follow the instruction to reset the passwords.

▶ Method 4. Reset password with the prepared password reset disk

If you created the password reset disk before forgetting the password, things would become easy. With the following operations, you can reset the computer password.

Step 1. When you type the wrong password, you'll see the following interface. Insert the prepared password reset disk, click "Reset password".

Step 2. The "Password Reset Wizard" window will be popped, click "Next" to continue.

Step 3. In the new window, choose the password key disk from the provided drive, then click "Next".

Step 4. In the new window, you can type a new password and new password hint, click "Next".

Step 5. When you see the password reset disk is successfully created, click "Finish".

Is there a better method to reset password on computer?

For some users, the front methods may be somehow difficult. Is there a easier method to reset the PC password? Yes. The AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can be reliable, it's a powerful third-party password resetting expert.

This software will create a PC password reset USB, then with the GUI guide, you can reset or remove the forgotten password easily. Compared with the Windows password reset disk, it supports to reset the password without creating the password reset disk before.

What's more, there're other magic functions, including Data Recovery, Disk Clone Wizard, Allocate Free Space, etc.

Please download it to see how to reset your computer password.

Step 1. Insert a USB into the PC, download and open this useful tool, then click "Tools" and "Reset Winodws Password".

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

Step 3. Choose the "General USB Flash Disk" option, and click "Proceed". The target USB will be formatted, so all data on the USB may be deleted, so please back up them first.

Step 4. Read the popped notice carefully and click "Yes".

Step 5. Wait patient, the tool is creating the password reset USB, click "Finish" when the operation is finished.

Step 6. Turn off the PC and 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. You can see all accounts on the PC, click the target account, then tick "Remove Account Password" or "Reset Account Password", click "Next".

Step 8. If you select "Reset Account Password", you can set the new password and then click "Yes". If you select "Remove Account Password", you can follow the next guide to remove it.

Tip: This brilliant software can also reset the Windows Server password, you can do it with the Server Version.

Verdict

How to reset your computer password? From this tutorial, you can find more than one practical method. If you want to have the highest efficiency, the AOMEI Partition Assistant is your top option.