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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