You forgot your password, tutorials did not help because there is no utilman.exe and you don't want to create a third party password recovery/hacking disk on a usb drive? Follow along.
- Get into recovery menu
- On any pc:
- Boot into lockscreen, hold
shift
key and klick on reboot wuth the mouse, then release shift
- Boot into lockscreen, hold
- On lenovo pc's (my case)
- Turn pc completely off
- hold
Fn
key and press the power key - A menu will pop up, choose Recovery something
- On any pc:
- Click on Troubleshoot, then Command Prompt (cmd.exe will pop up)
- execute these commands seperately (enter after each command)
diskpart
list volume
-> A list of volumes will pop up, see which one is your windows containing diskselect volume X
where X is the volume containing windows installationexit
copy C:\Windows\System32\utilman.exe C:\Windows\System32\utilman.exe.bak
-> backup utilmancopy C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe C:\Windows\System32\utilman.exe
-> confirm overrwriteexit
- Reboot
- In lockscreen, click the Accessibility icon in the bottom right corner -> cmd.exe will pop up
net user XXX YYY
-> where XXX is your username and YYY is your new desired password- Login using that new password
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