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Can't remember Windows 10 password so that you cannot successfully login Windows 10 computer now? Don't be anxious, besides the forgotten password, there are still other ways for you to regain access to Windows 10 computer. No matter you can't remember Microsoft account password or local account password, following methods could help you to sign in Windows 10 computer easily again.

If that’s the case, but you have set up a hint, you can request the password hint and see if you can remember your password, this might do the trick and you will not need to reset it. To add a hint to your Mac user password follow these steps: Open System Preferences (Apple System Preferences). Then choose Users & Groups. If the password you’re having trouble remembering is a general Mac login or administrator password, you can reset it with these instructions instead. Using the the Apple ID approach on boot is typically the easiest for modern Macs.

Method 1: Sign in Windows 10 PC with PIN/Picture Password

Try this method when you can't remember Windows 10 local account password. As we know, when we create a password for local user, PIN or Picture password also can be set as sign-in options for this user acount.

Note: How to add sign-in options on Windows 10

1. Just click Sign-in options under password input box, and you can see whether PIN or Picture password exits.

2. When they appears, choose PIN at first and try to sign in Windows 10 with four digital codes.

3. If still failed, choose Picture password and try to draw three gestures you have set on a picture.

After these login attempts, probably you have successfully signed in Windows 10. And then you can change forgotten Windows 10 password in Control Panel, Command Prompt, Computer Management etc. If still can't sign in Windows 10, please try other methods.

Method 2: Access Windows 10 Computer with Microsoft Account

Make full use of Microsoft account to sign in Windows 10 computer as long as it has been added for logon.

Case 1: When you still remember Microsoft account password on Windows 10

Just select Microsoft account on Windows 10 login screen and sign in with its password.

Case 2: When you can't remember Microsoft account password Windows 10

You will have a free way to reset or change forgotten Microsoft account password. And then sign in Windows 10 computer with its new password.

1. Go to Microsoft account password reset page on another computer.

2. Choose the reason why you can't sign into Microsoft account on Windows 10.

3. Verify your Microsoft account with security code, which can be received by an email or phone number.

4. Enter a new password twice to reset it for Microsoft account.

5. Choose Microsoft account on Windows 10 login screen, and type its new password to access computer.

Besides Microsoft service, the utility Windows 10 Password Genius also applies to Microsoft account password reset at any time, especially when you don't want to leakage your personal phone number or email account online.

Method 3: Sign in Windows 10 Computer with Old or New Administrator Account

Take this method if you find you have no Microsoft account added for Windows 10 logon. Then you would just could sign in Windows 10 computer with local account, such as administrator.

1. Sign in Windows 10 with old administrator account

Perhaps you have created several user account with admin privileges when computer is accessible. Now start Windows 10 and on its login screen, choose one of them to login Windows 10 computer, such as built-in administrator, and other local administrator account.

2. Sign in Windows 10 computer with new administrator account

If you find built-in administrator is disabled and there is no available local account, you can try to create new administrator account on Windows 10 with iSunshare Windows 10 Password Genius or Windows 10 install disc.

Example: create new administrator account on Windows 10 with iSunshare tool

Step 1: Burn Windows 10 Password Genius into bootable USB drive on another accessible computer.

Step 2: Boot Windows 10 computer from USB and create new administrator account.

1. Plug bootable USB into locked Windows 10 computer and start Windows 10 computer from USB flash drive.

2. While Windows 10 Password Genius successfully runs on Windows 10 and lists all user accounts, click the Add User button and type a new user name and password. Then a new administrator account will be created.

Surely, while you choose the password-forgotten administrator account and click on Reset Password button, its forgotten password will be removed. And then you will be able to sign in Windows 10 with new or old administrator account.

Step 3: Sign in Windows 10 with administrator account.

At last, it is time to tap on Reboot button and eject USB drive, in order to restart Windows 10 from hard drive and validate the changes. Select the local administrator account on login screen and sign in Windows 10.

Conclusion:

Local account and Microsoft account are two kinds of login users on Windows 10. If you can't remember password of one of them, please try to login with the other. However, if you can't remember all of Windows 10 password, you just could create new administrator account or reset Windows 10 forgotten password in purpose of computer access.

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For Snow Leopard and earlier

For Lion/Mountain Lion

Boot to the Recovery HD:

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.

Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow

instructions in the dialog window that will appear.

Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and

OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

If you are unable to boot from an installer DVD:

(these will only work on Snow Leopard or earlier)

1. Boot to Safe Mode by restarting and after the chime press and hold down

the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.

2. At the prompt, type the following commands pressing return after each

command line:

/sbin/fsck -yf

If you do not receive a 'Filesystem OK' message then repeat this command

until you do. If after seven tries you still do not receive a 'Filesystem OK'

message, then the system is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.

mount -uw /

cd /private/var/db/netinfo

mv local.nidb local.old

rm ../.AppleSetupDone

shutdown -r now

The second-to-last command above will cause OS X to think that the operating system is newly installed, and when the new owner starts up the computer it will send him/her to the startup wizard where he/she can start a new user without reinstalling.

This last method does not actually change a password. It simply removes the user accounts and lets you create an initial admin account as if the computer were new out of the box.

Reset Admin Password Using The Terminal

You can reset the password by printing out (or writing down) and carefully following these steps.

First, find the short name of the admin user on the machine. The easiest way of doing this is by looking at what the directory is called in the Users folder.

Now, start in Single-user Mode. It should boot into a command line.

Enter these exact lines. Press RETURN after each.

mount -uw /

ifconfig lo0 up

cd /var/db/netinfo

netinfod -s local

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Now you'll need that short name. Enter 'passwd', a space, and the short name of the admin. For example, if the admin was rather prosaically called 'imadmin', you would enter 'passwd imadmin'.

The computer will now prompt you to change the password for 'lmadmin' (or whatever the short name was). Go ahead and enter a new password.

Now, enter:

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reboot

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and the machine will reboot. The admin password should now be changed.

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