Can't remember your windows user password? As you all know without knowing the current password, we are unable to change Windows password. Today I am going to tell you two easy tricks to change Windows password without knowing the old password. These tricks work on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP.
Changing Windows Password Using Command Prompt (CMD)
This is an especially handy trick if you want to change a password on an account but you've forgotten the old password (going through the Control Panel can require confirmation of the old password). You need to have admin access to perform this change from the command line.
Follow these mentioned steps:
- Open command prompt- simply click on start button, search cmd and click on run as administrator
- You can use the net user "your username" "new password" command to change the password, without entering old password. First, we need to know our username
net user- use the command to know your username
Now we know our username so we can change our password using the command like this
net user icrew icrew123
