![]() ![]() ![]() To change the password on the mail account, you would need to go through the online forgotten password process. They won’t work for users in Windows 8.x and 10 who are logged in with a Microsoft mail account. These methods below will work on local user accounts for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.x and 10. Here we’ll show some easy ways to reset or change the user password without knowing the current password. Something like Kon-Boot can bypass the password completely during logon while a utility like Offline Windows Password Editor can clear the password. There’s also several third party methods to reset or change the password. There are also other ways to change the password within Windows but you still need to know the current password before using most of them. While you can create a password reset disk in Windows, you can’t create the disk if you don’t know the current password. If you or someone else happens to forget their password or doesn’t know because the password has been changed, then it becomes a problem. ![]() From then on the password will be required to logon and by other users for elevated privileges if you are an administrator. It’s quite easy and you simply go to the user account options in Control Panel or Settings and use the option a create a new password. You can either setup a password when creating the account or later on when you feel the need to. Adding a password to your user account is an obvious way to increase security and keep your data a little bit safer.
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