Reset Windows 10 Forgotten Local Admin Password

Just take it easy, if you’ve forgotten Windows 10 local admin password and can’t log onto your PC. Here I share several practical and effective methods to reset local admin password on Windows 10. Help you regain access to the locked computer.

Method 1: Reset Windows 10 Forgotten Admin Password with Password-reset Disk If you have one password-reset disk you ever created for the local admin when you could access the computer, things couldn’t be easier. Just need to insert the disk into the computer, click the Reset password link showed up on Windows 10 sign-in screen, and then follow the Password Reset Wizard to reset the local admin password to a new one, of course you can leave it blank.

Method 2: Reset Windows 10 forgotten local admin password with installation media One Windows 10 installation media (USB drive, CD/DVD ROM) also can be used to reset your local admin password. The steps may seem a little bit more, but it won’t be hard at all as long as you follow the steps below. Step 1: Insert a Windows 10 installation media to the computer and make the computer boot from the media.

Step 2: After computer boots up, you can see the Windows Setup screen. There press Shift + F10 keyboard shortcuts to bring up a command prompt dialog. Then execute the following two lines of commands. Press Enter key after you type each command. Note: Replace the “d” with your system drive letter. Step 3: After the two commands are completed successfully, pull out the installation media and restart computer.

Step 4: After computer restart and comes to the sign-in screen, click the Ease of Access icon so that you can bring up a command prompt. Then type net user and press Enter key to reset the local admin password to a new one. Then use the new password to sign into Windows 10.

Method 3: Reset Windows 10 local admin password with the help of another PC If you have neither a password-reset disk nor an installation media, borrow another computer to help you with password reset task. Borrow one computer.

Step 1: Create a boot disk with the help of another computer ① On another available computer, open the browser and google search iSumsoft Windows Password Refixer. Download and install this software on the computer.

② Launch the software and follow its steps to burn it to a USB or CD/DVD drive to create a boot disk.

Step 2: Boot locked computer from the boot disk Connect the boot disk into the password-forgotten and locked Windows 10 PC and boot PC from the disk. Step 3: Reset local admin password on Windows 10 Once computer boots up, Windows Password Refixer program should run on the hard drive and access to the system file. So you can see the screen showing Windows 10 and all existing users.

① Select Windows 10. (Normally it automatically selects by default.) ② Select the local admin whose password you forgot. ③ Click the Reset Password button, and reset password to blank when prompted. ④ Click Reboot and disconnect the boot disk when prompted to restart computer. ⑤ Computer will restart normally and you can sign into Windows 10 local admin without password.

Of course, if you don’t want to use any software, you also can instantly create a Windows 10 setup disk on another available computer by burning a Windows 10 ISO file to USB or CD-ROM. Then boot your locked Windows 10 PC from the setup disk to reset local admin password. Anyhow, it won’t be a hard task to reset Windows 10 local admin password after you forgot it. Useful tips: How to Burn Windows 10 ISO to USB : Related: Windows 10 Password Reset without Disk: