Have you ever forgotten the password to one of the accounts on your computer? You wish there was some way to get back into it to get back all your files and settings?
Well you’re in luck today!
Just follow these steps, and you’ll be back in in no time:
Step 1:
Click the start menu and open up “Run”, Vista users can just type “Run” into the search field.
This will open up command prompt.
Step 2:
To get a list of the users currently on your computer just type “net users” into the command prompt screen.
Or in my case:
Step 3:
From here you can change the password easily. Here’s an example:
net user administrator *
net user “John Doe” *
Or in my case:
net user “Slyke” *
You will be asked to enter in your password twice.
You won’t be able to see what you’re typing (Not even the password mask stars come up). So make sure you get it right, twice.
Step 4:
Here’s a screen shot of what it will look like if you’ve done everything correctly:
Step 5:
Logoff and then try to login with the account that you just changed the password for!
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This post was written by Slyke on October 18, 2008





Hey, you got any idea on how to do this without being on the admin’s account?
I believe you’re getting the Error Code: 5?
Try running command prompt as the administrator (Right click on it and click “Run as administrator”. Let me know if that works =).