In this tutorial we will learn how to bypass windows PC User Account password..
Prerequisite
1. Windows bootable media (i.e bootable Pendrive, CD or Network PE)2. Previous knowledge on CMD and OS installation
STEPS:
Boot the PC you want to bypass the user account password from the bootable media as shown below.
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Click on Next
One the "Install Now" page displayed below, there are two step we can take to achieve the same results.
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Option 1
Click on "Repair your computer", the page below will be displayed.
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Click on "Troubleshoot", and click on "Advanced options" as shown below
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From the "Advanced options" page, click on "command prompt" as shown below.
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Option 2
From the "Install now" page above, click on "Install now", the license agreement page will be display, accept the license terms and click next as shown below
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On the next page, click on "Custom: Install Windows Only (advanced)" as shown below
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On the disk partition page, press SHIFT + F10. A command prompt windows will be displayed.
Continuation for both Option 1 and Option 2
Once on the command prompt window, lets identify the windows partition.
NB: there are two ways to do perform this task that is using "diskpart" or "try and error". In this scenario we are going to use "try and error"
On the CMD window, type "C:" and press enter as shown below.
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Type "dir" in the windows and press enter as show below
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The results shown above depicts that there's NO installed windows on the partition C:
Go ahead and type "D:" and press enter. as show below
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Type "dir" and press enter. The results shown below indicates that the D: drive contains the operating system.
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Type "cd D:\windows\system32" and press enter as shown below
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Type "cmd.exe" and press enter.
Type "copy cmd.exe utilman.exe" and press enter when prompted as shown below, type "All" and press enter.
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Type "utilman.exe" and press enter, your results show be similar as displayed below.
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Restart the PC and allow it to boot normally.
After the PC restart successfully, on the login page click on "ease of access" button once as show below.
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A command prompt window will be displayed. In the command prompt window, type "net user" and press enter as shown below. If the command prompt window do not appear after about 15secs, restart the PC and try again.
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Take note of the username that appear on the login screen. We will be using that username in the next command.
Type: net user "Test User" password@123 and press enter as shown below. Note: replace "Test user" with the username on the PC and password@123 with your preferred password. Ignore the double quotes on "Test user" if your username does not contain any spaces.
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You should get "command completed successfully" message as shown below.
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Now close command prompt and use the new password to login. If it doesn't accept the new password, restart the PC and try the new password again.
Congratulations!!!
You have successfully this activity. Stay tuned for more tutorials like this.
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