Create a New User if you forget account password
- First you will need to create a Windows 10 installation media on USB or DVD and boot from it.
- Hit ‘Shift + F10’ when setup begins.
- This will bring out the command prompt and we will use DOS command to replace the Utility manager at the login screen to with cmd.exe.
- move d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe.bak
- copy d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe
- use the command “wpeutil reboot” to restart the machine.
- Click on the Utility manager at the login screen and it will launch the ‘Command Prompt’.
- Input the below command to create an admin account. (No caret)
- net user <username> /add
- net localgroup administrators <username> /add
- New user account is now created
- Login to new user account
- Go to ‘Computer Management’
- Go to ‘Local Users and Groups>Users>Set password’ and set new password
