This worked out awesome and very easy to use.. My mother-in-law just passed away, we got her pc and couldn't figure out her login password. Downloaded and burned Windows Media Tool, watched this video and got into the pc with no issues.. Thank you very very much..
This was fantastic. Never found anything this concise and it works well if you follow instructions to the letter. Most presentations like this think they need music behind them or they talk so fast you can't follow them or their dialect is such I can't make out.. Many time I have tired for do a password reset but this is the first one to really work. Congratulation on a fine presentation.
amazing tutorial, straight to the point. love it. I just had a pretty big gig where I had to remove/reset 14 laptops and 7 desktops from an office for resell/recycling and this was an absolute LIFESAVER. thank you!
Worked like a charm! Nice tips! Only thing you forgot to say is to remove the flash drive as soon as you close both windows from prompt and installation menu. Since the flash drive is booting up first (from bios booting priority), it has to be removed once you're done renaming cmd and utilman.
one of my friend get hacked, and the hacker found funny to add a password at login. You saved me a complete reset of the computer with your trick, thx a lot.
I tried multiple other suggestions for fixing this issue, but none worked. This one did! Thank you! One thing to note, though, is that this does break your CMD utility as it does not go back and rename cmd1.exe back to cmd.exe. I was able to do this from the Windows interface after the fact. Thanks again!
That's because the 4th line should be "rename cmd1.exe utilman.exe" (Or better yet, the 1st line "rename ultiman.exe ultiman1.exe" and a 2nd and final line "copy cmd.exe ultiman.exe")
Many people in this world, they are called GENIUS. But for me if I rate you 1 to 10, for me you are no. 1. Keep searching and learning more unhidden knowledge about what inside the computer system. But use it correctly and don't break the law. Thank You Very Much. More power to you
This could all be easily done from the advanced menu no problem since no admin privileges exist due to not being booted into windows yet. With your method you could just do this once the command prompt is available and you are using an administrator prompt. to get admin prompt while in cmd type: powershell -command "start-process -verb runas" 1. net user " " * (yes you do need the quotes for spaces in the username) 2. This'll bring up two fields to create a password. Leave both empty to get rid of the password. 3. press enter on the login screen. Set new password as desired using this method, video, or other.
Oh thanks SO MUCH. I literally have no idea what caused my password to change, and all these instructions and programs all costed money or involved a bunch of weird things like rolling back windows, but this is just like, changing the ease of access icon to be another way of opening up command line? I LOVE it. AGAIN, thanks so much!
Great video! I have the situation where I have to do your "slightly modification" version. You say to run the "netuser Administrator /active" command at the "Troubleshooting spot" or something?. It's hard to hear when you do that? When do you run that command in your video (time-wise)
u are a Hero i had so many photos on my old PC, and i gave up. I thought all the pictures are gone. I changed the password with your tutorial and it worked for me. BIG THANKS
It works very well if you follow the instructions in the video. This was very useful because my friend lost his password, and we were able to reset it because of this. Thank you.
i did everything you showed. now when i type 'control password2' at ease of access command prompt it shows that ' this administrator password cannot be reset'. and the 'password reset' button is desable . now what to do?? my laptop is sony vaio. waiting for your kind reply.
had some trouble opening up the cmd after booting into win10 and clicking ease of access, it kept closing itself after about a 5secs but i kept rebooting until i managed to type in the thing and reset the password quickly enough this was made harder by me having to switch the language i was typing in with left alt+shift, but in the end i got it to work! thank you, great tutorial!
Is there a need to copy utilman and cmd into new exe files (utilman1 and cmd1)? It doesn't seem like you used them. After all, you basically just renamed utilman to cmd and overwrote the cmd executable... all of the previous steps seemed like you didnt need to do ...
Yo i just wanted to say THANK YOU! My computer crashed months ago and i had not been able to log back in as i did not know how to fix the defaultuser0 password thing… so i let it go for the time being but kept my laptop and i saw this video and it saved me. Thanks.
For those that don't want to keep the command prompt on the Ease of Access button, maybe remind those watching to rename the files back to their original file names. Otherwise great video!
@@dravendutch2494 (for anyone searching later) You'll need to boot via USB just as you started with this one, and do the shift-F10 to bring up the command prompt at the Windows Installer again. Repeat the same steps to change your directory but this time, you'll want to 'del utilman.exe', then 'rename cmd1.exe cmd.exe' and then 'rename utilman1.exe utilman.exe". That's because in the original, we made copies of both, and then renamed the original cmd.exe file to utilman.exe (which means we have no more cmd). So by deleting the newly renamed utilman.exe file, we now are left with just the copies we originally made. Renaming them back puts us back to where we started. Then just go ahead, close out the cmd prompt window and the windows installer box, remove your USB drive, and should be all set from there.
interesting points ,if anyone else trying to find out forgot login password on laptop try Sovallo Code Reset Fixer( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my neighbor got cool results with it. @Sheldon Livingston
Great tutorial! Sub'd & Thank you! If I wanted to prevent someone carrying this out on my PC (resetting password), is there anyway to prevent the above process? TY
You're welcome...and thanks for supporting the channel. Interesting question. You would need to employ encryption for your device. A good deal of enterprises require encryption software installed on their company-issued computers for the reasons you mentioned. I would suggest looking into Bitlocker for a more consumer/enthusiast-focused software. You can see by the ratings and comments that a vast, vast, majority of people do not have such safegaurds of else this tutorial would not have been successful for them.
You sir are a genius 👏 I'm am a follower of your channel now 🎉! Please continue to teach us more. Also can you explain what the commands mean. Thanks !
Thank you so much! My pc wouldn't let me used my PIN or face recognition to log in, and I forgot my password. I thought I'd have to reset my entire pc, but now I've got access again! It was scarily easy lol.
I tip my hat to you, sir. Genius move changing "Ease of Access" to "Command Prompt"! That's legendary, dude. Afterwards, I couldn't delete _utilman.exe,_ or change the names of _utilman1.exe_ and _cmd.1.exe_ in Windows 10. As a work around, I went back to the command prompt in the Windows 10 setup, to revert the names. I really feel like my knowledge was increased. 10/10!
Hello. When I type "cd windows" at 5:04 (I have letter c, not d, that's where my windows is installed) it says "The system cannot find the path specified", help please?
Hey! I followed the tutorial, but when I get to the user accounts window, it says that I cannot change the password. It’s worked for me in the past, so idk what I’m doing wrong this time. Anyways, thanks for responding so often on this video!!
Hi! Quick question, when you typed in 'list volume', you had 3 volumes. I only have 1. I think that's also the cause of some sort of problem because when I type in 'cd windows', it says that the system cannot find the specific path. Please do help, thanks in advance!
Thank god it worked perfectly i was about to reset windows. Windows suddenly diddnt recognized my password i wass 100% it was the correct one. Any way problem solved thanks to this video!!!!
Hey there, I came across this, I got to the process where I had to pick a Volume. However, the only volume found was the USB that I used to boot from. Does this mean I have corrupted volumes?
OMG YOU'RE A SAVIOR. ToT 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I badly need it for work omg. I could kiss you a lot. Thank you so much I had to have the disk ship from our province. Had to go to all that trouble just to reset my password. 😊😊😊😊😊 love lots
boss you are genious .. I mean you have seen it somewhere to learned but you have showed us the technique. :) Thanks a lot .. i am subscribing to your channel
thank you...saved my behind...it was so frustrating. didn't use this laptop in ages, and used to sign in with a pin, but after doing some W10 updates, it asked for a password and no option on alternative login options. and of course i forgot the password and my hints were not helpful at all :D
You're awesome for making this tutorial, but how do I revert te changes? Edit: rename 'utilman.exe' back to 'cmd.exe' and rename 'utilman1.exe' to 'utilman.exe'
Nice trick, thank you very much. I was not able to change the password, since the account was not local, but at least I had the command line to create another one.
i got all the way to the "control userpasswords" but then got this error "windows cannot find x:\windows\system32 etplwiz.exe" . any ideas? trying to wipe an old work computer where i forgot the password.
got me to the screen but wouldnt show me the password error messages then it realized I had a windows 7 boot disk and stopped working different versions.
Hi there, is Dec 27 2020 and running windows 10 ver 1909 and still working, just to let you know guys, after doing this you have to rename your prevouis renamed file, otherwise cmd will remain as cmd1
Can i use cd instead and burn it with windows password geeker(a password resetting ap) and when i boot can i get into the ap like you did in windows setup?
I don't know the specific language to use when downloading the file because it's just given to me and they don't remember it too.. what do i do, can i do, the computer was from china
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It worked
Would it not affect the files on my flash drive
How i bypass workdomain?
Hi, I just tried this and ran into a problem. When I type in cd windows, it says the system cannot find path specified. what do I do from here?
@MFTechVideos Can you clarify the reset process for a Microsoft Account?
This worked out awesome and very easy to use.. My mother-in-law just passed away, we got her pc and couldn't figure out her login password. Downloaded and burned Windows Media Tool, watched this video and got into the pc with no issues.. Thank you very very much..
You're welcome!
Same man, My Father-in-law passed away, can you help me out?
Thanks It's working
@@oppositecube just follow the video dumb nuts
This was fantastic. Never found anything this concise and it works well if you follow instructions to the letter. Most presentations like this think they need music behind them or they talk so fast you can't follow them or their dialect is such I can't make out.. Many time I have tired for do a password reset but this is the first one to really work. Congratulation on a fine presentation.
Someone make this man president. He said it would work and it worked!
Glad to help.
Agreed
😅😅😅
amazing tutorial, straight to the point. love it. I just had a pretty big gig where I had to remove/reset 14 laptops and 7 desktops from an office for resell/recycling and this was an absolute LIFESAVER. thank you!
You're welcome!
@MDTechVideos hey can I know if this process deletes the data as in pictures and all from the laptop or not?
Please reply me, its very imp. For me🥺
Works for W11 as well.
Worked like a charm! Nice tips!
Only thing you forgot to say is to remove the flash drive as soon as you close both windows from prompt and installation menu.
Since the flash drive is booting up first (from bios booting priority), it has to be removed once you're done renaming cmd and utilman.
Best tut on entire YT. I did it myself but that was like 10 years ago. So I realized I remember absolutely nothing.
Very very good tut bro.
09:06 is helpful for me, Thank you
one of my friend get hacked, and the hacker found funny to add a password at login. You saved me a complete reset of the computer with your trick, thx a lot.
It works like a charm as of 3/2/2020, and reminder to all who watching this video, this only works on local account.
This has to be one of the greatest tutorials ever made!!!
Thanks!
I tried multiple other suggestions for fixing this issue, but none worked. This one did! Thank you! One thing to note, though, is that this does break your CMD utility as it does not go back and rename cmd1.exe back to cmd.exe. I was able to do this from the Windows interface after the fact. Thanks again!
That's because the 4th line should be "rename cmd1.exe utilman.exe" (Or better yet, the 1st line "rename ultiman.exe ultiman1.exe" and a 2nd and final line "copy cmd.exe ultiman.exe")
Everything else I tried failed but this works and also the production of vid was excellence clear and explained well
Fantastic news!
@@MDTechVideos is there anyother way to sign into a local acc without a flashdrive? I am having no luck with this
6/28/2024 after so many tutorials, it finally worked. Thank you.
Without any data lose..?
Many people in this world, they are called GENIUS. But for me if I rate you 1 to 10, for me you are no. 1.
Keep searching and learning more unhidden knowledge about what inside the computer system. But use it correctly and don't break the law.
Thank You Very Much. More power to you
You're welcome!
Thanks so much!! I was dreading the thought of having to do a pc reset just because I forgot my password.
This could all be easily done from the advanced menu no problem since no admin privileges exist due to not being booted into windows yet.
With your method you could just do this once the command prompt is available and you are using an administrator prompt.
to get admin prompt while in cmd type: powershell -command "start-process -verb runas"
1. net user " " * (yes you do need the quotes for spaces in the username)
2. This'll bring up two fields to create a password.
Leave both empty to get rid of the password.
3. press enter on the login screen.
Set new password as desired using this method, video, or other.
Oh thanks SO MUCH. I literally have no idea what caused my password to change, and all these instructions and programs all costed money or involved a bunch of weird things like rolling back windows, but this is just like, changing the ease of access icon to be another way of opening up command line? I LOVE it.
AGAIN, thanks so much!
You're welcome!
Did you use a usb and windows 10 ?
i tried so many things and i watched so many videos. been up all night and this worked without any problems whatsoever. So thank you!
Glad I could help
Great video! I have the situation where I have to do your "slightly modification" version. You say to run the "netuser Administrator /active" command at the "Troubleshooting spot" or something?. It's hard to hear when you do that? When do you run that command in your video (time-wise)
How to do it?
How to do it?
the spelling in the console gets a bit more time then it needed to but the video actually helped me out so good job
You saved my laptop from a major expense. For that I thank you for your clear instructions and procedures.
Glad I could help!
Thanks it worked like a charm! Do I need to rename and recover the old files somehow?
u are a Hero
i had so many photos on my old PC, and i gave up. I thought all the pictures are gone. I changed the password with your tutorial and it worked for me. BIG THANKS
Glad I could help
Still Works 1/3/2020
Great Tutorial my dude! works swell and very clear.
You're welcome!
It works very well if you follow the instructions in the video. This was very useful because my friend lost his password, and we were able to reset it because of this. Thank you.
Glad it helped
So all the data and personal files was saved??
@@michaelone9475 yes
i did everything you showed. now when i type 'control password2' at ease of access command prompt it shows that ' this administrator password cannot be reset'. and the 'password reset' button is desable .
now what to do??
my laptop is sony vaio.
waiting for your kind reply.
OMG bro it's working THX MAN!! Your videos always help me, thank you very much
Glad it helped
everything works till pressing the ease of access button but for some reason, the cmd prompt keeps closing as soon as I open it. How would I fix this?
Did you find the solution I have the same issue
had some trouble opening up the cmd after booting into win10 and clicking ease of access, it kept closing itself after about a 5secs but i kept rebooting until i managed to type in the thing and reset the password quickly enough
this was made harder by me having to switch the language i was typing in with left alt+shift, but in the end i got it to work!
thank you, great tutorial!
Is there a need to copy utilman and cmd into new exe files (utilman1 and cmd1)? It doesn't seem like you used them. After all, you basically just renamed utilman to cmd and overwrote the cmd executable... all of the previous steps seemed like you didnt need to do ...
you deserve an award,,, what is the next step to restore the ease of access option and remove the command prompt from the lockscreen ?
Yo i just wanted to say THANK YOU!
My computer crashed months ago and i had not been able to log back in as i did not know how to fix the defaultuser0 password thing… so i let it go for the time being but kept my laptop and i saw this video and it saved me. Thanks.
Thanks, man. After months of not using my desktop I totally forgot I set a password 😣. Well deserved thumbs up 👍
Glad it helped
The world needs more people like this
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much 😭 I've been struggling with it for the past 24hrs. You really helped ♥️
Glad it helped!
Laughs in years
For those that don't want to keep the command prompt on the Ease of Access button, maybe remind those watching to rename the files back to their original file names. Otherwise great video!
Good tip!
How are we supposed to rename them after?
@@dravendutch2494 three commands: [rename utilman.exe cmd.exe], [rename utilman1.exe utilman.exe], [del cmd1.exe]
@@dravendutch2494 (for anyone searching later) You'll need to boot via USB just as you started with this one, and do the shift-F10 to bring up the command prompt at the Windows Installer again. Repeat the same steps to change your directory but this time, you'll want to 'del utilman.exe', then 'rename cmd1.exe cmd.exe' and then 'rename utilman1.exe utilman.exe".
That's because in the original, we made copies of both, and then renamed the original cmd.exe file to utilman.exe (which means we have no more cmd). So by deleting the newly renamed utilman.exe file, we now are left with just the copies we originally made. Renaming them back puts us back to where we started.
Then just go ahead, close out the cmd prompt window and the windows installer box, remove your USB drive, and should be all set from there.
This is a great tutorial man, very concise and clear! Thanks for the help!
You're welcome!
interesting points ,if anyone else trying to find out forgot login password on laptop try Sovallo Code Reset Fixer( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my neighbor got cool results with it. @Sheldon Livingston
Great tutorial! Sub'd & Thank you! If I wanted to prevent someone carrying this out on my PC (resetting password), is there anyway to prevent the above process? TY
You're welcome...and thanks for supporting the channel. Interesting question. You would need to employ encryption for your device. A good deal of enterprises require encryption software installed on their company-issued computers for the reasons you mentioned. I would suggest looking into Bitlocker for a more consumer/enthusiast-focused software. You can see by the ratings and comments that a vast, vast, majority of people do not have such safegaurds of else this tutorial would not have been successful for them.
Sh!7 worked I can't believe it. I did it. We did it. Thank you for speaking like a human being at an audience appropriate frequency.
@wesmacboom8155 hey can I lnow if it removed all the pictures or other data from the laptop??
Please reply
Soothing voice, very clear and very easy to follow! Thank you so much brother!
Best Tutorial Bro, thanks a lot man, you saved me alot of time and money, and it still works 26/june/2020! ♥️♥️
Glad it helped
0) Press [ Shift + F10 ]
Commands:
1) C:
2) cd C:windows\system32
3) copy utilman.exe utilman1.exe
4) del utilman.exe
5) copy cmd.exe utilman.exe
What if I use a bootable pendrive
hey md, whenever I click on ease of access, a cmd windows does appear, but the moment I type in anything, the window disappears. What can I do?
yo man, you're a lifesaver. This is the only tutorial that worked on windows 7 for me.
You're welcome!
You sir are a genius 👏 I'm am a follower of your channel now 🎉! Please continue to teach us more. Also can you explain what the commands mean. Thanks !
Thank you so much! My pc wouldn't let me used my PIN or face recognition to log in, and I forgot my password. I thought I'd have to reset my entire pc, but now I've got access again!
It was scarily easy lol.
Glad I could help!
same tbh
I tip my hat to you, sir. Genius move changing "Ease of Access" to "Command Prompt"! That's legendary, dude. Afterwards, I couldn't delete _utilman.exe,_ or change the names of _utilman1.exe_ and _cmd.1.exe_ in Windows 10. As a work around, I went back to the command prompt in the Windows 10 setup, to revert the names. I really feel like my knowledge was increased. 10/10!
Glad it helped!
Can you tell me how
Hi is the method the same way when using a USB instead of a CD . For example when you typing cd d: would it be different for USB thanks
Please help! When I type “cd system32” I get “The system cannot find the path specified.”
type "d:" and try type “cd system32” again
Thanks ! I couldn't been thinking about replacing the Utilities Menus as the cmd, ha.
You're welcome!
Hello. When I type "cd windows" at 5:04 (I have letter c, not d, that's where my windows is installed) it says "The system cannot find the path specified", help please?
Any solve?
Works in 2023, your tutorial was excellent. Thank you so much.
Glad I could help
Hey! I followed the tutorial, but when I get to the user accounts window, it says that I cannot change the password. It’s worked for me in the past, so idk what I’m doing wrong this time. Anyways, thanks for responding so often on this video!!
I keep coming back to your video 😂❤🎉
You're welcome
thank you so much! i’ve been struggling with this for like 4 hours straight and finally found your video and you really saved me
You're welcome!
You are a life saver. You just gained 100 followers from my hood
Glad it helped
Thank u soooo much sir ...it really worked with my window 10 ...
I am really happy....
Thank u so much from India
You are most welcome
Damn! I actually did it. If anyone reading this and feel skeptical, just give it a try (04/06/2024)
Glad I could help
Hi! Quick question, when you typed in 'list volume', you had 3 volumes. I only have 1. I think that's also the cause of some sort of problem because when I type in 'cd windows', it says that the system cannot find the specific path. Please do help, thanks in advance!
the step before you exit diskpart is obviously a mistake, but great tutorial thanks.
Man you are a genius.
Video is excellent. All the info required, delivered at the right pace.
Many many thanks.
Glad it helped
@@MDTechVideos it is still working on 2023?
You just saved my files bro. Thumbs up
Glad I could help
This tutorial helped me reset my password, at the cost of making my command prompt unusable, any idea how to restore my command prompt back?
congratulations man even if I was blind I would figure it out. well done
Glad to help.
Thank god it worked perfectly i was about to reset windows. Windows suddenly diddnt recognized my password i wass 100% it was the correct one. Any way problem solved thanks to this video!!!!
You're welcome!
Hey there, I came across this, I got to the process where I had to pick a Volume. However, the only volume found was the USB that I used to boot from. Does this mean I have corrupted volumes?
i did the microsoft account thing once... it forgot my password.... how does the pc forget a password!!
The most usefull tutorial on whole YT. Thx.
Glad it helped!
OMG YOU'RE A SAVIOR. ToT 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I badly need it for work omg. I could kiss you a lot. Thank you so much
I had to have the disk ship from our province. Had to go to all that trouble just to reset my password. 😊😊😊😊😊 love lots
Glad I could help
🤣we are not going to Heaven🤣🤣🤣🤣
This worked Ty so much my computer has been locked down for months
boss you are genious .. I mean you have seen it somewhere to learned but you have showed us the technique. :) Thanks a lot .. i am subscribing to your channel
thank you...saved my behind...it was so frustrating. didn't use this laptop in ages, and used to sign in with a pin, but after doing some W10 updates, it asked for a password and no option on alternative login options. and of course i forgot the password and my hints were not helpful at all :D
Glad it helped
Thank you for sharing this wonderful trick. It works beautifully.
You're welcome!
You're awesome for making this tutorial, but how do I revert te changes?
Edit: rename 'utilman.exe' back to 'cmd.exe' and rename 'utilman1.exe' to 'utilman.exe'
Commands:
0) cd C:\windows\system32
1) rename utilman.exe cmd.exe
2) rename utilman1.exe utilman.exe
i have a problem, when i try to reset the password it says that i cannot change the password for my account
I did exactly what you shown, once I removed the usb to let it boot up, it shows "No operation system found" What just happen?
Great Tutorial .... Thanx for making such a fab content..... These will help me a lot
Nice trick, thank you very much. I was not able to change the password, since the account was not local, but at least I had the command line to create another one.
Glad I could help
i got all the way to the "control userpasswords" but then got this error "windows cannot find x:\windows\system32
etplwiz.exe" . any ideas? trying to wipe an old work computer where i forgot the password.
Oh my god u have no idea how much this helped especially now that I have online school
You're welcome!
Nothing short of amazing! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
But how do you get to this starting page you show right in the beginning? The Boot Menu?
got me to the screen but wouldnt show me the password error messages then it realized I had a windows 7 boot disk and stopped working different versions.
Hi there, is Dec 27 2020 and running windows 10 ver 1909 and still working, just to let you know guys, after doing this you have to rename your prevouis renamed file, otherwise cmd will remain as cmd1
Can i use cd instead and burn it with windows password geeker(a password resetting ap) and when i boot can i get into the ap like you did in windows setup?
omagad finally I can open my old laptop really thanks to youuu
You're welcome!
Thanks For your awesome tricks . it's very helpful
You're welcome!
I tried it do the same the second time, it wasn't working..
It works like a charm! I can't thank you enough.
You're welcome!
I’m not very tech savvy. I’m confused, how can I get into windows when I can’t into my computer?
You are best youtuber
Thanks a whole lot for your help brother, saved me a whole lot of ear ache😂
Glad it helped
Thanks man 👍 you save the day. Almost got in mind of reinstallion thought but watched your video nd finally login. Eazy
Glad I could help!
Having a new problem an a Dell machine.. the click ease of access is NOT allow the cmd screen to open. So i'm stuck at this level.. any idea?
Finally a good tutorial guide that’s not a Indian guy that I can’t understand😂
Glad it helped!
I don't know the specific language to use when downloading the file because it's just given to me and they don't remember it too.. what do i do, can i do, the computer was from china
You're such a genius man!
You're welcome!
You my friend, just saved my brother-in-law job, amazing video
Glad I could help