Forgot Windows 10 password and locked out
of your computer? This article gives you several practical methods to easily
unlock Windows 10 admin password using a USB flash drive.
Tip 1:
Use a Windows 10 Installation Disk to Unlock Windows 10 Admin Password.
With a Windows 10 installation disk, you can
unlock Windows 10 local user accounts password by using Command Prompt.
Firstly, you will need to create a Windows 10 installation disk with a USB
flash drive by using Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.
Then boot your computer from USB, it will provides
Advanced Options including Command Prompt. You can run the Command Prompt to
copy cmd.exe from your Windows partition and rename the cmd as utilman. Then
you can run the utilman.exe with administrative privileges to reset any Windows
10 user account’s password with net user command. Detailed can be found on this
page: Reset
Windows 10 Admin Password with Command Prompt.
Tip
2: Unlock Windows 10 Administrator Password with USB Flash Drive Burned from
Rescuer
If you never created a Windows 10 password
reset disk on your USB flash drive and now you are totally locked out of your Windows
10 machine, you can use “Wimware Windows Password Rescuer” to create a Windows
10 password recovery disk with the USB flash drive and then use this USB disk
to unlock administrator and user password in Windows 10 without reset disk.
This is an easy way which can 100% unlock
Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP password, quickly unlock your Windows 10 computer
without losing data.
Here I will show you How to unlock Windows
10 administrator password with USB flash drive burned by “Wimware Windows
Password Rescuer Personal”.
Step 1: Download and install the software
on another available computer. Use it to create a Windows Password recovery
disk with a USB flash drive.
1. Launch Windows Password Rescuer
Personal, plug in a writable USB flash drive and select USB Device.
2. Select your USB flash drive from pull
down list and then click Begin Burning button to start. This procedure will take
about one minute. After successfully complete burning, take out your USB.
Step 2: Plug in the Windows password recovery
disk to your locked Windows 10 computer and boot the computer from USB device.
It is easy.
1.
Start your computer and press
F12 or Fn+F12 (often in laptops) as soon as possible to open Boot Options Menu.
2.
Select USB-HDD option and hit
Enter. The computer will run from your USB flash drive automatically.
Step 3: After booting from USB, Windows
Password Rescuer starts automatically and display a friendly interface. Windows
system and user accounts will be shown in list. Now you can recover Windows 10
administrator or user password with several clicks.
1. Select Windows 10 by click it in list.
2. Select administrator from list.
3. Click “Reset Password” button, click Yes
when a confirm massage pops up, and your user password will be removed.
4. You have successfully removed your Windows
10 administrator password (show blank). You can redo 1 and 2 procedure to
remove other accounts' password. Now click Reboot – unplug your USB and click
Yes when a dialog appears. The computer
will restart and then you can logon Windows 10 without password.


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