How to Reset/Remove Windows 10 Password with Bootable USB Drive

Forgot Windows 10 password and unable to login your PC/laptop/tablet? It seems troublesome but actually you can reset or remove Windows 10 forgotten password with USB, such as a backup password reset USB disk or iSunshare boot USB drive.

1. Password reset USB disk

2. iSunshare boot USB drive

Way 1: Reset Windows 10 Forgotten Password with Password Reset USB Disk

If you have created password reset disk with USB for this Windows 10 password-forgotten user, now you can take the password reset USB disk to reset forgotten Windows 10 password.

1. While Windows 10 prompts you that "The password is incorrect. Try again." after you entered a wrong password for login user, click OK and then you could see the link Reset password under password input box.

2. Click the link to open Password Reset Wizard, which would guide you to reset Windows password with password reset disk step by step.

3. Insert password reset USB disk into Windows 10 computer and click Next on Password Reset Wizard.

4. Now select the inserted password reset USB disk from drop-down list and click Next button.

5. Reset the Windows 10 user account password. Type a new password and enter it again to confirm.

6. Click Next and then Finish button at last to complete the Windows 10 Password Reset Wizard.

Way 2: Reset/Remove Windows 10 Forgotten Password with iSunshare Boot USB Drive

Run iSunshare Windows Password Genius Advanced on an accessible Windows computer, Mac, or Android phone to burn it into a bootable USB drive. You will get a boot USB drive, which could reset or remove Windows 10 forgotten password, and create new administrator account. 

Note: How to create a bootable USB drive for Windows password reset

1. Plug the boot USB drive into Windows 10 computer.

2. Power on Windows 10 and boot computer from USB drive.

3. When Windows Password Genius Advanced runs on locked Windows 10 computer, please select the password-forgotten user, local account or Microsoft account, and click on Reset Password button. Instantly, the local account password would be removed and Microsoft account password would be reset to "iSunshare@2012".

4. In order to get in your Windows 10 PC, now click on Reboot button and exit USB drive in time to restart Windows 10, then you could sign in with local account or Microsoft account and its new password.

Note: From above introductions, believe you have known password reset USB disk only could reset forgotten password for one Windows user account, while iSunshare boot USB drive could reset or remove Windows password for all of user accounts.

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What to Do If Forgot Windows 10 Administrator Password

If forgot Windows 10 administrator password, how can you access computer and run programs with admin privileges? Here three options could help you.

• 1. Change the way to log into Windows 10
• 2. Reset or remove Windows 10 administrator forgotten password
• 3. Create new administrator without Windows 10 login 

Option 1: Change the way to login Windows 10

Besides the forgotten administrator password, have you created other sign-in options for this administrator, such as PIN and Picture password? If the answer is yes, don’t hesitate to choose the sign-in options and access computer with them.

Besides the administrator you have forgotten password, is there built-in administrator, other local administrator or Microsoft account on Windows 10 login screen? If there is, try to login Windows 10 with them, which will also give you administrative privileges.

Even though you have none of them, it doesn’t matter. You still have the chance to reset forgotten Windows 10 administrator password or create new administrator without login.

Option 2: Reset or remove Windows 10 administrator password after forgot

If you forgot administrator password in Windows 10, a link "Reset password" would appear under password input box after wrong password entering. This link would guide users to reset forgotten Windows 10 administrator password with reset disk created previously. Surely, if no reset disk has been created for this administrator before, you should find other ways to reset forgotten Windows 10 password instead.

1. Click the link Reset password and insert pre-created password reset disk.

2. Click Next button on pop-up Password Reset Wizard dialog.

3. Select password recovery disc and click Next button.

4. Reset a new password for administrator and tap on Next and Finish button.

After that, exit password reset disk, and you can type new administrator password on login screen to sign in computer. This is the easiest way that Microsoft provides us to reset Windows 10 password after locked out of computer. But not all of us have realized the importance of the problem until they also find Windows administrator password forgot on their own computer.

At this time, I think we just could create a password reset disk with third-party software. For example, iSunshare Windows Password Genius could burn such a disc on any available Windows computer, Mac, or Android phone and this recovery disc could reset any forgotten Windows password.

Follow Windows Password Genius user guide to reset Windows 10 administrator password.

Option 3: Create new administrator without Windows 10 login

If you have tried Windows Password Genius Advanced, you would find there is also an option "Add User" that could easily create new administrator with default password. It is recommended to create new administrator when locked out of Windows computer.

Moreover, you can try Windows 10 installation disc to create new administrator with command. Why?

1. When Windows 10 boots from system installation disc, we can run command prompt with combination key Shift + F10, where we can switch the location of cmd.exe and utilman.exe, or replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe.

2. Boot Windows 10 normally then and on login screen, we can click the icon "Ease of access" (utilman.exe). So command prompt could be run instead of utility manager to reset Windows 10 password or create new administrator with net user command.

Command to reset Windows 10 administrator password:

net user <administrator> <new password>

Command to create new Windows 10 administrator:

net user <username> /add
net localgroup administrators <username> /add

About details, please see the topic about creating Windows 10 new administrator without login. As long as you follow above three options, there would be no worry even Windows 10 administrator password forgot.

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Forgot Windows 10 Login Password and Have No Disk

Forgot Windows 10 login password and there is no password reset disk, how can you recover or remove Windows 10 forgotten password to sign in computer?

If Windows 10 login account is Microsoft account, it really doesn't matter whether you have a password reset disk or not. Microsoft has provided service for Windows 8/8.1/10 users to reset the Microsoft account password without any other help.

But if Windows 10 is set for login with local user account, you should consider this problem sincerely. As we know, password reset disk is the common and free way to reset forgotten Windows password.

However, it doesn't mean you have the only way to get password reset disk. Suppose you really have not created such windows password reset disk on available computer for Windows 10 login user, don’t be anxious. Now lots of programs have taken this into consideration and could make a password recovery disk on another computer when your PC or laptop is locked.

Create Windows 10 Password Reset Disk with iSunshare Program

Step 1: Get iSunshare program Windows Password Genius Advanced.

It had better be full version, so you can successfully remove Windows 10 login password.

Step 2: Install and run the program on an accessible Windows computer.
Note: Windows Password Genius also supported to create reset disk in Mac or Android phone.

Step 3: Plug prepared bootable USB flash drive into the computer.

Step 4: Select media type USB device on iSunshare program.

Step 5: Choose USB flash drive from drop-down list next to Begin burning button.

Step 6: Click on Begin burning and Yes to create a USB password reset disk for Windows 10.

After burning successfully, click OK and get out of USB flash drive from accessible computer.

Note: This password reset disk would not only remove windows 10 local user password, but also reset Windows 10 Microsoft account password at the same time.

How to use the password reset disk for Windows 10 login password reset or remove?

1. Insert password reset disk into locked Windows 10 computer.

2. Set Windows 10 computer boot from USB flash drive.

3. When iSunshare program runs on locked computer, and lists all the login users and their password status, select the login user you need to reset or remove password, and click on Reset Password button.

4. Click Yes on pop-up dialog when you are asked "Do you want to set this user password to blank?" Then Windows 10 login password is removed.

Also you can select Microsoft account and reset its password. Or click "Add User" to create new administrator for Windows 10 logon.

5. Now click "Reboot" button and click Yes tab on following dialog. Before computer successfully restarts, please exit password reset disk. Otherwise, you would need to remove Windows 10 login password again.

Besides password reset disk, actually you can find other methods that also could help to reset Windows 10 login password as long as the sign-in account is local user.

1. Built-in administrator, other administrator or local user with admin rights

2. Other sign-in options for this login user, such as PIN code, picture password etc

3. Windows 10 installation disc and command prompt

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How to Change or Remove Excel Sheet Password Protection

If your excel sheet has been protected with a password, whether you can change or remove it?

As we know, worksheet password can be changed or removed easily by anyone who knows the current password.

1. Remove Worksheet protection password with "Unprotect Sheet" command:

1-1 Open your excel workbook that contains excel sheet you need to remove protection.

1-2 Click the sheet tab in workbook and tap on "Review > Changes > Unprotect Sheet".

1-3 Enter password in "Unprotect Sheet" dialog and click OK to confirm sheet protection password removal.

2. Change Worksheet protection password with "Protect Sheet" command:

2-1 Select the sheet in workbook and click "Review > Protect Sheet" command in Changes group.

2-2 In "Protect Sheet" dialog, check the options you want to allow all users of this worksheet to do. Then type a new password to protect sheet and click OK.

2-3 Retype the password in Confirm Password dialog and click OK. 

But if you don’t know or have forgotten excel sheet password, how can you remove and change?

As is known, if you forget or lose password, Microsoft can’t retrieve it for you. So the methods "Unprotect Sheet" command talked about above would not help to remove excel worksheet password protection.

What we can do only is to find an effective method that can unprotect excel sheet without password. So that excel sheet protection would be removed automatically. Here I just want to share you powerful software, iSunshare Workbook Unprotect Genius, which could easily remove sheet protection password with one click.

Remove excel sheet protection password with software:

Step 1: After launching Workbook Unprotect Genius full version on computer, click "Open" button to import protected excel file (including the excel sheet you want to remove password).

Tips: Please make sure the excel file should be .xlsx format. If not, convert excel file to this format at first.

Step 2: Click Remove Password button and excel sheet protection password is removed.

And then if you want to change the excel sheet protection password, just make full use of Protect Sheet command in Excel Review > Changes tab.

Note: It is worth mentioning that this software also could remove workbook protection password and read-only password at the same time. 

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