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How Can I Remove Password from Windows 11 PC?
[Update on July 2024] In fact, I have successfully remove and reset the password and forgot to update in here. I received a lot of messages asking me for the same issue when I logged in my Outlook account.
Below is the tutorial that helped me reset the password in 4 simple steps:
https://www.urly8.com/windows-password-reset-guide
You need another administrator account in order to do so.
In your Terminal, type:
net user USERNAME NEWPASSWORD
or
net user USERNAME *
to change it discretely. Here, it will ask you to type your password which will be invisible and where you can input nothing.
or
Use your recovery disk which is safer than 3rd party tools.
You could clean install and you'll lose your apps, but your files will be there if you do it right. Hopefully, you have your Bitlocker key if activated, at least.
Thanks for the tip. However, there is only one admin account on my PC. It seems the suggestion you shared does not work in my case.
- If you have an install disk/usb/recovery, which you can make from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 or https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11, you can install "over" your current system, (don't delete/format your drive; just select the drive your OS is on--important!) so that when you make your first login account, your files will be in the Windows.old folder of your C: drive. For example, C:\Windows.old\Users\YOURUSERNAME.
You'll need to not have Bitlocker protection though I believe, or have your key ready.
You can look at your recovery options here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/recovery-options-in-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5