There is no doubt that: Windows 10 is the most used computer operating system in the world today. Even though it’s a paid OS!
Windows 10 offers users more features and options than any other computer operating system.
During the Windows 10 installation process, Microsoft requires users to create a local account, also known as Local Account, to manage Users.
This local account is password protected, and of course the user can change the computer password at any time through the Windows Settings application or Control Panel. Or even if you don’t like it, you can delete the Windows 10 password too.
Well, if you are suspecting that someone has your Windows 10 password, or in other words, your computer password is exposed, you should change that password to be more secure.
You can access the user account settings to change the password for the Local Account easily, this is the traditional way that people still do.
However, if you have a bit of experience using computers, you can use the commands in CMD to change the computer password, delete the password.. more quickly.
Okay, if you are wondering how to do it, please refer to the following tutorial!
#first. Change Windows 10 computer password with command in CMD
+ Step 1. First of all, open CMD with administrative rights first. You can click the link next to see more ways, or follow the steps below:
Perform: You press the key combination Windows + S to open Windows Search => Then you enter the keyword Command Prompt.
=> Right click on Command Prompt => and choose Run as Administrator to run the program as administrator.
+ Step 2. This will open Command Prompt on your Windows 10 with administrative rights. On the command prompt window, enter the command net user => and press the button Enter as shown below.
+ Step 3. You should now be able to see all the user accounts present on your computer.
+ Step 4. To change the Windows 10 password, enter the following command => and press Enter:
net user <Username> newpass
Inside:
- Username is the User account name for which you want to change the password.
- Newpass is the password you want to replace.
+ Step 5. Once done, you will see a success message.
But you need to keep in mind that, if Username which has spaces, for example Blog Chia Se Kien Thuc then you must put that Username in "" Please. For example:
net user “Blog Chia Se Kien Thuc” new_password
There are many other great commands in CMD to help you manage your Windows operating system more effectively, you can see more in Admin’s great article: Managing Users on Windows with commands in CMD
#2. Epilogue
Yes, that’s it, I’ve finished guiding you How to change Windows 10 computer password with CMD . command it’s very simple.
Personally, I think this is a very good and fast way to do it, although it has to use the command line, the command lines are not complicated, if not very easy to remember.
If you have any problems, please leave a comment below, I will help you as soon as possible!
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