Hey you and welcome! In this whole video I'm going to be going over how to reset
a windows 7 windows 8 windows 10 or even a windows 11 password without knowing the password first!
Now if you're a subscriber and you watch a lot of my videos you notice that i just finished a video
last week talking about the same thing well in the previous video i talked about how to reset or
remove a windows password using a app called pass fab for when key this time i'm going to be showing
you how to do it without using that app however you are going to need to download the windows
media creation tool and be able to get into the command line and key in some commands now the way
i'm going to show you is the way that we do it in my classroom and normally my students take about
30 to 40 minutes to actually do all the steps from beginning to end and at the end they have a
computer with a password that's been changed the one that they've decided to go with now in the
lesson that we're going to be doing today we're going to change a password that we don't know the
password is we don't know what it is but we want to change it to being one two three four five and
basically um it's going to be requiring us to actually alter something a very important windows
file and then changing it back all right so we're going to be doing a little bit of
changing of files basically in windows but we won't be losing any data now again if you're
shy about working within the command line if you don't want typing commands then watch the
other video and that one has a app that you can download and basically does everything for you
but it's not free alright so let's go into how to reset a windows password step by step
here i am in my lesson now what we're going to do is we're going to turn on the pc
and then step one there is we'll boot up from the windows installation cd or a windows boot drive
now this can be found within the media creation tool and that's found i'll put a link to that
in the description for you here but let's go ahead and actually click on that link right now and show
you what it looks like so here's the microsoft.com they have what's called create installation media
for windows and at this window you notice that you have windows 7 windows 8 windows 10
that would include something for like windows 11 as well and you simply click on your operating
system so if you have seven click on seven all i'm going to do is i'm going to click on windows 10
and here we are at this window now and on this you notice it says download
tool now so we need to do is click on download the tool and i'll click that right now so we
can actually see it there it is it's called the media creation uh tool and we're using 21h1 but as
time goes on they change those last numbers there because that's the version number
and that's an exe file it will get downloaded to your downloads folder in your windows machine
and then you'll put a spare or a blank thumb drive or pin drive into your usb port and then run this
tool and basically it will format and create a bootable disk from one of these pin drives
click on save to save it and you can see at the bottom of my screen there it says
media creation tool and so it's saved there now you can actually access it
right there on the screen or go into your downloads folder and access it there
okay now i'm going to go back to the lesson so by this step you should have created the boot media
and now what we're going to be doing as soon as you turn on your pc you'll press either the delete
f12 or f2 key to enter what's called the boot order menu screen now most computers or most pcs
right when you turn them on as you see i'm doing here you'll notice they'll have a
little message on it talking about the boot screen or the boot menu and it will say a
letter or a command such as press the f2 or press the f12 whatever it is go ahead and press that
function key and it will open up that menu and once that menu opens as you see here
then you'll need to change it to the usb to be the very first one to boot from
after that save it and then you'll restart your pc it will then boot either from the
cd or from the usb drive and it should do that pretty much instantly when the computer
boots up from the cd or from the usb you should click repair your computer option then choose
command prompt from the various options which are shown step three we cover windows 7 or 10
password with commands so that's the next step here now for step 3-1 at the dos prompt type in
the command that's shown here i'll have that copy down in the description as well so you can have it
and copy it to uh the place that you need to but make sure it's exactly the way it's shown there
next step 3-2 type the next command that you see there
and then step 3-3 you'll exit the installation either cd or the boot and then reboot your pc
of course you can remove the usb drive now for step number four we're actually going
to be in this step we're going to be resetting the windows 7 windows 8 or windows 10 password
while a windows login screen appears press the shift key five times to bring
up the command line interface now type in this command which is net user and then
the your name or the name of the user and then the new password now in this case we're going to be
using one two three four five as the new password and uh so for example the net user could be uh
sun share and then one two three four five that's the password so it's going to look just like that
and that means the password of account name sun share is now set to one two three four five pay
close attention as you're typing in the keys for that password because if you put in something else
you've just changed it to that other thing and we'll have to redo all the steps so that's why
i say make it easy make it one two three four five as shown here that way you know what it is
next password reset work has finished so far but the setc.exe has been altered by what we did
at the beginning of the lesson so what we're going to need to do is actually change that back
so now use the command in the command line there c colon and backslash so i have it written right
there for us and i'll have that again copied like all the others down in the description
and you'll type that in and then hit the enter key what this will do is this will restore the
original set c file so that it can't be uh your password won't be changed again there
so you can actually go back and do these steps it usually takes my class between 30 and 40 minutes
to do their computers um and change their passwords in this way
but what's nice about it is you don't have to buy any programs or apps to do this
you're doing this on your own just a little quick disclaimer here
make sure you do the commands exactly the way they're shown here because if you do
something like add extra spaces or don't put in spaces and guess what it won't work for you so
that's why i have these steps written for you here but i also have my other video which just uses
that app again that app you have to buy it or pay for it but it does change your password or even
remove your windows password and it does it really quick in the matter of just a few minutes there
so there you go now you know two different ways to reset a password on a windows computer
one is by using that app that i shown there at the beginning and the other
way is by using those commands and also the windows media creation tool from microsoft
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