You set the password on your computer to protect your privacy and ensure the safety of your data. However, it might get redundant to enter the password each time you sign in to your computer. You can find numerous articles written about turning off the lock screen password on your computer on google. I checked them, and some may not work on your computer. In the following article, you will learn easy and tested ways to remove (disable) a login password on Windows 11.

Read about: Reset Windows 11 Password from Command Prompt

Remove the login password from the registry.

Working with the registry is a critical process and requires taking extra caution. You can disable the Microsoft account password or local user password with the registry. To disable the login password from the registry, follow the steps below:

1. Press the Windows + R button to open the run box.

2. Write the Regedit in the Run box and click ok. Allow the user to make changes.
3. Navigate to the following path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

4. In the Winlogon folder, find the ‘DefaultUserName’ string. If you did not find it, create a new String by right-clicking on the Winlogon folder, then New>String Value. Rename it with the DefaultUserName and double-click on it to open.

5. In the Edit String window, enter your Microsoft account, User Name, or Other ID that you want to disable their password in the Value data and click ok to save the changes.

6. Find another string with ‘DefualtPassword’ or create a new one and rename that as ‘DefualtPassword.’
7. Double click on the DefualtPassword string and enter the password of the related account in the Value data and click ok.

8. Now find the ‘AutoAdminLogon’ string in the Winlogon folder or create a new one and name it AutoAdminLogon.
9. Double click on the ‘AutoAdminLogon’ string, set its value data to 1, and click Ok.

Finally, after the restart, you will automatically log in (Without a password) to your computer.

How to remove the login password with Command Prompt?

If you are signing into your computer with a local account, removing the password is more effortless. One easy way to remove the local account password is through the CMD.

1. Open the command prompt as administrator.
2. Write the net user and enter; see the list of all user accounts on your computer.
3. Now write net user username * and enter. (instead of the username, write the name of the user you want to disable its password)
4. Instead of writing the password for the selected user, enter without writing anything. (they should be blank)
5. Do not write anything in the confirmation password, and press enter.

6. You will see a message saying, ‘The command was completed successfully.

You just turned off the lock screen password on Windows 11. Restart your computer, and you will log in without a password.

Disable the login password on Windows 11 from the User Account Panel.

Another way to disable the user account password on Windows 11 is through the User Account Panel.

1. Write the Netplwiz in the Run box and click ok. (Or write the Netplwiz in the search box and open it)
2. Select the intended account from the user account panel, uncheck the box, and click ok. ( If you cannot select the intended account at first, check the above box once, then choose the desired account, and then uncheck the box )

3. Enter the account’s password and confirm the password, then click ok.

Finally, restart your computer; you will log in without a password.

Conclusions

If you get tired of entering the password with each login, you can follow the above methods to remove the login password on Windows 11. I hope the article can help solve your problems.

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You may forget or lose the password you set for your local account on Windows 11 and want to reset it. There are various ways to reset the password on Windows 11 before login in, and the most accessible and most convenient of them is through Command Prompt. This article covers all the required steps to reset Windows 11 passwords from Command Prompt (CMD).

You can check the Reset Windows 11 Password before login in for other methods to reset the password on Windows 11.

How to reset Windows 11 Password using Command Prompt

Command Prompt is a secure and easy way to reset the local account password before logging into your computer. After turning on your computer and the password was incorrect, follow the steps below to reset or change the password.

At first, you have to have access to the CMD (Command Prompt) in the sign-in window. You must rename the utilman.exe, and CMD.exe in Drive C to access the command prompt.

1. To rename those two files in drive C, press the Shift key and restart your computer. You will be directed to the Windows Recovery page.
2. In the windows recovery, choose Troubleshoot option.
3. Select the Advanced options > Command Prompt.

4. Now that you have access to the CMD, you need to go to the C drive directory. Write C: and enter. Additionally, you can write dir and enter to see a list of all the main folders and files in the C drive.

5. To change the directory and go to the Windows folder in the C drive: write cd windows and enter. And then write cd system32 and enter. You are now in these directories: C:\Windows\System32>

6. It is time to rename the utilman.exe file: to do so, write ren utilman.exe utilman1.exe and enter. The utilman file changed to utilman1. (The utilman1 is an arbitrary name, you can name it anything)

7. Moreover, now let’s rename the CMD.exe: to do so, write ren CMD.exe utilman1.exe and enter. You changed the name of CMD to the utilman. (The new name must be utilman)

Reset the Password from Command Prompt

8. After renaming the two files, return to the sign-in window and click on the Accessibility icon in the bottom right corner, and the CMD window shows up. (If you still do not have access to the cmd window, restart your computer)

9. In the sign-in window, start the command prompt and write the net user to see a list of all local users on your computer.

10. Now write net user UserName new_password and enter. If the operation were successful, you would see the completion message in the second line.

Finally, sign in with the new password, and you are done!

Conclusion

To conclude, you can quickly recover the forgotten password on Windows 11 following the above steps. I hope this could solve your problems and if you have questions, write them in the comment section.

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Due to the security issue, you may set a complex password on your system for the safety of your data. If you forget or lose passwords on Windows 11 or other previous versions, you can safely reset the password before logging into the system. Moreover, there are various ways (Third-party tools and built-in tools) to reset the password without losing the data. This article covers how to reset local user account passwords on Windows 11, through answering the security questions, password reset disk files, and resetting the password using CMD.

You can read this article if you are using windows 10: How to Reset Lost Windows 10 Password Correctly?

1: Reset Windows 11 password with security questions

If you added security questions while creating your local account for Windows 11, you can answer those questions again and sign in successfully. After entering the wrong password, you will see the “the password is incorrect. Try Again” notification. Then click ok, and go with the following steps:

• Under the password box, you see the “Reset Password” link on the sign-in screen; click on that.

• Three questions with their answer boxes appear. Write the exact answers you gave when setting the account then press enter.
• Provide a new password and confirm the new password, and press enter.

Login with the new password without losing a single piece of data.

2: Reset forgotten password using password reset disk

Another way to reset the forgotten password on Windows 11 is through the password reset disk (It is a file you create on a USB flash drive and lets you safely reset the password later). This method is possible if you have already created a password reset disk on a USB flash drive. Since creating a password reset disk on Windows 11 and Windows 10 is the same, you can check this article Reset Windows 10 password with password reset USB for creating a password reset disk. After plugging in the USB flash drive or SD card that contains the password reset disk file, go ahead with the following steps to reset the local user account’s password.

• After entering the wrong password, click on the Reset Password link in the sign-in window.
• Scroll down to the end of the questions and their boxes, then click on the Use a password reset disk instead link.

• Click next in the Password Reset Wizard. And the system automatically detects the USB Drive if you have inserted the USB already. After selecting the password reset disk from the top-down menu, click next.

• New Window asks you to enter the new password, confirm it, type the new password hint, and click next.
• Finish the password resetting, return to the sign-in window, and log in with the new password.

You are done with resetting the password using the password reset disk.

3: Reset password without using USB, or other software

The third way to reset the password on Windows 11 before login into the computer is through a command prompt. This method does not need you to create a password reset disk, or must-have answered the security questions. Before starting to reset the password, you need to do the following process to get access to the CMD window in the sign-in window:

• In your sign-in window, press Shift-Key and restart your computer. This takes you to the Windows Recovery window. In the windows recovery, select Troubleshoot option.

• Click Advanced Options > See more recovery options > System Image Recovery.
• Now click on the Select a system image and click next.

• In another window that asks you to select the backup location for the computer, you want to restore. Click on the Advanced button at the bottom of the page.

• A tiny window pops up; click on the Install a driver. Ask you to insert the installation media, and click OK.

• You are in your system. Select the disk where you stored the windows operating system (mostly C drive)
• When you are in the C drive (Or the drive you installed the operating system), click on the Windows folder. Then click on the System32 folder.

• Find a file with the name of Utilman, first copy the name and then rename the file (the new name can be anything).

• After you renamed the Utilman, now find another file with the name of CMD and paste the Utilman to rename this one.

• Finally, return to the sign-in window without any other changes.

Use CMD to reset Windows 11 password and create a new password

In the sign-in window, click on the Accessibility option at the right-bottom corner to open the command prompt window. Now write the net user in the command prompt and enter to see all the local accounts, and then select the one you want to reset their password.

After selecting the local user, write the net user name_of_the_account new_password and enter.

If the operation was successful, you would see the completion message in the second line. Return back to the sign-in option and enter the new password. You are done!

To wrap up, you learned three simple ways to recover the lost or forgotten password on Windows 11. Write your questions in the comment sections. Thank you.

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Sometimes you forget your computer system password and you can’t login to have access your Windows 10 user profile data. Don’t worry; it’s not hard to reset lost Windows 10 password fas and secure. To reset Windows forgotten password, you must have a Windows Bootable USB drive. It helps you boot the computer and reset the password.

It is better to do it yourself and keep your password safe. Because the computer password is the most secret key in our tech life. For most of us happened to forget the password of Windows user account. Here we try to show you how to reset forgotten Windows 10 password in just a few minutes. It’s work for all Windows but no matter which windows you have Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,1 or 10 and even Windows Servers.

Reset Lost Windows 10 Password Easy & Fast

The first method is using Windows building options without paying for third-party software. First of all, you must have Windows DVD or a bootable USB Flash Drive for booting system.

Reset lost password of Windows 10 correctly with the fast and easy process:

1. Prepare a Windows Bootable USB drive.
2. Boot your computer system with USB.
3. Replace Cmd.exe with Utilman.exe to gain access to CMD on the Login page.
4. Reset Lost Password of Windows 10.
5. Create New User Account in Windows 10.

Good, let’s follow the step by step guide to reset lost Windows 10 password correctly with the fast and easy way without paying for password recovery software.

Step 1. Prepare a Bootable USB drive with Windows 10

A bootable USB helps you boot your PC with a pen drive device. To reset Windows 10 password, you need to have a Windows 10 DVD or make a bootable USB with Windows 10 Image. Download Windows 10 iso image from Microsoft download centre. Download Windows 10 Enterprise 180 Days Free.

Making a bootable USB drive is easy. You can use free software, Windows command line or Powershell. In case you don’t know to create a bootable USB drive, read the article about How to make Windows 10 Bootable USB.

Step 2. Boot your PC with Bootable USB

To boot your PC system with DVD or USB. Just press the Boot Option key when you press the system Power button.  If you don’t know how to boot your PC system, see the article about “How to boot a computer with DVD or USB?”

1. Boot the computer with USB and navigate to Windows Setup page then press Shift+F10 keys to open the command prompt (CMD).

2. Now on the command prompt type, the following command and press enter to list all of your hard disk drives. This command shows the active hard disk drives of your computer.

fsutil fsinfo drives

You see all drives and D:\ must be the Windows root directory because c:\ is the reserved system drive for the windows boot loader.

3. To change the directory of Windows, type “d:” and press enter. Then type “cd windows\system32″ and press enter to go to Windows system 32 directories where some settings we need to change for resetting Windows 10 Password.

You can check all hard drives one by one to find your exact Windows system drive. It’s easy, do practice and learn some command line tips as well. But not practice on your real computer. Make a virtual lab on your computer and practice on a virtual machine.

Related Article: Make a Penetration Testing Lab in Windows 10.

Step 3. Replace Cmd.exe with Utilman.exe

When you replace the Cmd.exe file with Utilman.exe file, you have gained access to the command prompt on the login page of Windows.

1. Now just change the utility manager “Utilman.exe” to “Cmd.exe“. Before replacing the utility manager, try to take a backup of utility manager file with below command.

ren Utilman.exe Utilman.bkp

2. Next step, copy the “Cmd.exe” and renamed to “Utilman.exe” by typing the following command.

copy cmd.exe Utilman.exe

The Utility Manager has replaced with command prompt. Just remember, don’t bring changes to other Windows system files. When the process has finished, restart your PC with “shutdown -r -t 0“ command and boot it normally.

Step 4. Reset Lost Windows 10 Password

That’s good. You are on the final stage. Here you can quickly reset lost Windows 10 password just with a simple command line.

1. In the Windows login page click on utility manager in the left corner of the screen. Now the command prompt will open with administrator privilege instead of utility manager.

That is good. Now you can reset the lost password of Windows with “net user” command. Using the net user and net local group command is easy. Try to learn about in Managing User Account with Command Line in Windows 10 article.

2. To reset the lost password of a user in Windows, type “net user username *” then press enter and type the new password twice.

C:\>net user Shais *
Type a password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:
The command completed successfully.

C:\>

That is all you need to reset a lost password or recover lost password of any Windows system. Read other Windows 10 articles to learn more about Windows 10.

Step 5. Change Lost Windows 10 Password

With “net user” command you can easily create a new user, modify properties of the existing user and reset its password. Let’s change the password of “Shais” user with the following command.

net user Shais 123

Related: 5 Ways to Change User Account Password in Windows.

Here I reset the password of Shais by typing net user shais 123. Finally, close the command line page and try to login with the new password.

Good luck.

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Managing user account and groups with “net” command line. The Net user command line is a built-in Windows Command tool. It uses for creating, deleting and managing user account in Windows operating system. Managing user account using command line and graphical interface both are easy. But the command line is high-speed and powerful. The net command utility works on command prompt and PowerShell.

To learn more about Powershell, just read the PowerShell articles on technig.com. And let’s start managing user account with a command line.

Managing user account using command line in Windows 10: 

1. Net user command review.
2. Add a user account with command.
3. Set Password to a user account with command.
4. Change user account password using a command line.
5. Upgrade standard user to an Administrator account.
6. Delete a user account and profile with command.

To run net user command, open command prompt or PowerShell with typing “cmd” on Windows Run.

1. Press Windows+R to open the run.
2. Type “cmd” and press enter for command prompt. And for Powershell just type “Powershell.”
3. Now, type “net user /?” and press enter to see the net user command line help.

Note: If you want to execute net user to add a new user or bring changes, you must run cmd or Powershell as administrators. It does not work as standard users. To run them as an administrator, just press Windows and search Powershell then press Shift+Ctrl and press enter.

Managing User Account using Command Line

To understand the structures of a command prompt command, get the help by typing “/?” at the end of any command on command prompt and PowerShell. It will show you the help documents.

PS C:\> net user /?
The syntax of this command is:
NET USER
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
         username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN]
         username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]
         username [/TIMES:{times | ALL}]
         username [/ACTIVE: {YES | NO}]
PS C:\>

Add a New User Account with Command Line

Let’s start and create a new user account with the net user command, named Ali with Password 123, and press enter. Type the following command to add a new user account with the command line in Windows 10.

PS C:\> net user ali  123 /add
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

The user Ali has been created successfully. If it shows the Access denied error, it means that the command prompt is running as standard users, like below error.

PS C:\Users\Shais> net user Ali 123 /add
System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

To view the complete information for a newly created user account, just type “net user Ali” and press enter. It will show you the user local group membership, Global group membership, date of creation, etc.

PS C:\> net user ali
User name                    ali
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country/region code          000 (System Default)
Account active               Yes
Account expires              Never
Password last set            10/10/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password expires             11/21/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password changeable          10/10/2017 9:12:47 PM
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes
Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   Never
Logon hours allowed          All
Local Group Memberships      *Users
Global Group memberships     *None
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Set Password to User Account with command

To set a password to a user account or changing the password of a user account, type “net user Ali *” command then press enter and type the new password twice.

PS C:\> net user Ali *
Type a password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

You can use this method to change any user account password in Windows 10 and other Windows operating systems.

Change Standard User to Administrator in Windows 10

You have successfully created a new standard user account and now try to add this user account to an Administrators group. The administrator privilege gives you the ability to bing changes to Windows 10 system and settings. With a standard user account, you cannot run the command, install software and change Windows settings. To change standard user to Administrator in Windows 10, just type the following command.

On the user information, you saw that Ali was only a member of the Users group, a standard group. You can add a user account to a group with “Net Localgroup” command.

PS C:\> net localgroup administrators ali /add
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

To remove a user group membership, type the following command and press enter

PS C:\> net localgroup administrators ali /delete
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Delete a User account with Net User Command

If you don’t need a user account anymore, don’t leave it away. Delete or disable it for security reasons. Someone might crack the password and log in to your system. To delete a user type “net user Ali /delete” command.  

PS C:\> net user ali /delete
The command completed successfully.
PS C:\>

Note: When you remove a user with a net user command line, the profile’s deleted user account remains in the user profiles folder. You must delete it manually from the user profile setting. Read this article “Remove User Profile correctly in Windows 10“.

I hope you find the article managing user account using command line in Windows 10 helpful. If you have any problem or question about the managing user account using command line feel free and ask through comment. If you don’t like to use command line, try to read the article about creating a user account with a graphical interface in Windows 10.

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