How to log on to Windows 10 without a password? To solve this issue, this article combines some ideas shared online and shares them with you, including setting other logging options, changing password to blank, running Windows Automatically log in and reset password.
“This morning friend called asking how to get into Windows 10 Laptop he bought yesterday without a password. Login gave the option to reset password, said to put in a flash drive, but they had no flash drive. How to log on to Windows 10 without a password? Thanks for your help.
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When the users open their PC, they need to enter the right password to log into the Windows OS. Generally, the password can protect your data from being leaked. However, when you forget the password, it may waste your time and energy to reset the password.
If you want to know how to log on to Windows 10 without password, fortunately, this post can help you with some practical methods under two cases.
To log on to Windows 10 without a password, you can try the following methods in different cases. Let’s go on and get it.
When you open your PC and remember the password, but you think the operation to enter the password is troublesome, you can try the next three tips to help you easily unlock Windows 10 without password.
โถ Method 1. Set other logging options
In Windows Settings, you can set other logging options to open your PC.
Step 1. Click “Start” button and then click “Settings” to open the Windows Settings.
Step 2. In the new window, click “Sign-in options”, then you can choose other options to log on the Windows 10 PC, including Windows Hello Face, Windows Hello Fingerprint, PIN, Security Key, etc. Then click “Change” to change the log on method to another one.
โถ Method 2. Change password to blank via Settings
In Windows Settings, you can also delete the current password. But there is something we need to pay attention to: this method can only be useful for deleting local passwords.
Step 1. In the Sign-in options interface, click the “Password” option and click “Change”.
Step 2. Then input the current password, then click “Next”.
Step 3. In the new window, directly press “Enter” to set the new password as blank, then click “Next”.
Step 4. Then you can log on to Windows 10 PC without password.
โถ Method 3. Run Windows Automatically log in
If your PC password is not for the local account, you cannot delete the password, then you can set the Windows Automatically log in. You’ll see the detailed process in the following content.
Step 1. Press “Windows +R” to open the Run program, then input “netplwiz” and click “OK”.
Step 2. Under the “Users” tab in the new window, untick “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer” and click “Apply”.
Step 3. Input the current account and password to confirm, then you can get into Windows 10 PC without password.
How to log on to Windows 10 without a password when the PC is locked? The following two methods may help you to open your PC.
โถ Method 1. Reset password with password reset disk
If you have prepared the Windows password reset disk before losing the password, you could quickly reset the password with a few steps.
Step 1. Insert the created password reset disk in your locked PC, click “Reset password”.
Step 2. The “Password Reset Wizard” will be opened, read it carefully and then click “Next”.
Step 3. Then choose a password key disk in the following drive and click “Next”.
Step 4. Reset the PC password and password hint, click “Next”.
Step 5. Finally, click “Finish” to complete the password-changing operation.
If the Windows password reset disk didn’t been prepared, don’t worry, you can try a third-party software to reset the password. With a password reset tool, you can easily create the password reset USB under the situation of losing password. Here, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can be trustworthy.
With the “Reset Password” function, you can a create password reset USB, then insert it into the locked PC and reset the lost password. Compared with Windows password reset disk, this tool can be useful even when you have missed the password.
Tips: โ The target USB will be cleaned up, so if there’s important data on it,. please back it up. โ If the password of Windows Server PC is lost, you can try the Server Version to reset it.
Step 1. Connect the target USB with another PC in normal use, then download and open this reliable tool. Click “Tools” in the top toolbar and select “Reset Windows Password”.
Step 2. Click “Next” in the small popped window.
Step 3. Then choose a USB boot device and click “Proceed”.
Step 4. Please read the note about creating a bootable USB, then click “Yes”.
Step 5. The utility is creating the password reset USB, then click “Finish” when the bootable USB is created.
Step 6. Take out the USB and then insert it into the locked computer, then restart it. Change the boot drive, boot the PC from the created USB and choose the OS, then click “Next”.
Step 7. Choose one account and select the “Reset Account Password” option, then click “Next”.
Step 8. In the new window, set the new password and click “Yes”.
โถ Method 2. Change password when Windows installation disk
If you have the Windows installation disk, you can also reset the missing password with it. The steps are as follows.
Step 1. Insert the installation disk into the PC without password, boot the computer from it. When you see the following Windows Setup interface, press “Shift +F10” to turn to CMD.
Step 2. In CMD, type “copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\” and “copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe”, then press “Enter” each time. Then turn out the installation disk, 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 be opened again, then input “net user cocosenor *” and press “Enter” to reset the password. Then confirm the entered password.
In this post, we provided some effective methods to log on to Windows 10 without a password. If you remember the password, this task is easy to be completed, if you forget the password, you can also finish the task by resetting the password. To quickly and easily reset the lost password, AOMEI Partition Assistant can be a good tool for you.
What’s more, if you want to have a PC with better performance, you can use other functions to manage your PC, such as Disk Clone Wizard, App Mover, Allocate Free Space, Covert FAT 32 to NTFS, etc.