Only works if the PC's users aren't all admins. Otherwise, before you can't use command prompt, it asks for password, which makes it utterly useless, as that's the whole point
It works ! Make sure to use accurate location for your Utilman.exe. In my case Ultilman.exe is located at D:\Windows\System32 (not at C:\Windows\System32
I think this might be strictly for local and domain only accounts. Online Microsoft accounts will force a password from the looks of it. Following the steps listed, this is what I got: I booted the PC, I held shift and clicked restart. The PC booted in to the safemode / recovery mode screen. As seen in the video, I selected the trouble shoot, then advanced options, then clicked the start command prompt option. The PC then reboots to a screen where the administrator account is listed only. When clicking on this option, it asks for the administrator password. So in this case, this method does not work.
You cant do this anymore, i think these comments are all just bots lmao Edit: OKAY I GET IT, IT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU AND IVE NOTICED THAT YOU DONT NEED TO FRIGIN REPLY TO ME SAYING "it worked for me 🤓 🤚" BECAUSE I GET IT OKAY
@tatabelinello @@rg4trueno808boot from windows 10 iso usb. then once in the installation screen press shift +f10 it will open the command prompt. do all the same commands as the video at 0:56.
@@dimasnr00 No, changing file name back just restores accessibility options and does not restore the encryption keys. When you reset the password, encryption keys are lost and files can not be decrypted any more. Just google "Accessing EFS-encrypted files after resetting Windows password"
Changing the file name back at the end of the video just restores the accessibility features functionality at the login screen. It has nothing to do with restoring access to encrypted files.
Oh my gooood. I just got back my computer. This video is the best. Whoever thinks it doesn't work, try to follow it properly. A million thanks for the creator
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 a live USB or a bootable USB is how you install windows with a thumb drive. you can make one using any thumb drive and the windows installation manager.
Why does mine say "System Error 8646 the system is not authoritative for the specified account and therefore cannot complete operation" and cannot change password?
This works believe me. If you somehow manage to open the cmd (with accessibility icon) you have to type *control userpasswords2* in the cmd. This will open a password manager window. You will be able to do the rest yourself :D GIVE A LIKE IF WORKS
Sir, Thank you very much for your tutorial, in the beginning, I am struggle with unlocking the bitlocker, but then I found it. And finally my laptop is back without losing data. Thank you, again..
@@sandorswim Hello, sorry, I can't remember which video was successfull unlock the bitlocker, but try search on youtube: "bitlocker unlock without password and recovery key". Hope that help
Bro you have my highest esteem, you're a fucking genius! Thank you so much for this skill, I was able to access my PC after forgetting my password desperating trying and trying again. 100% safe method easy and fast, I have not lost any files, applications or features of my Pc. You are great!
Thanks! I followed all your given steps. But through accessibility tab, at login page I still get command prompt tab. How can I turn it off. Please help.
Thank you. Excellent video & method. I haven't done it yet - I have a question: After you replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe, how exactly do you close out the cmd window? I seem to remember having a problem with that long ago, when using Linux, and I can't remember. You just say "close it" (but not how to) and then jump to a windows screen offering "Continue" with no instructions in between. I'll wait to hear from you before I do this. I forgot my password because I've just been using a pin for years - my accounts settings say my account is local. Oh, and what I really want to do is to NOT have a password at all, I think that can be done in Settings?? You have just shown me that a password is useless here, if someone is determined. I'm 83, live alone, and no one has access to my PC. However, I don't want my son to have trouble getting into my computer when I kick the bucket.
Great video, thank you. I wanted to ask if you can do a video on how can you make visible in a winpe environment (strelec winpe) the internal hard disk of a pc in raid mode in bios, which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a raid pc but only a pc with intel rst active. I have a dell pc with intel rst active and raid mode on in bios and not ahci, which doesn’t show the internal hard drive or the windows directories in it if i boot into the pc using strelec winpe. I think you already know this software package. I’ve read somewhere that we should integrate into the winpe the intel rst drivers but i don’t know how to do that. Thanks again
it s not working .... even safe mode requires password ................................is working if you use usb image of windows ....and that what you use thanks
I tried to reset the password but the power button isn't appearing on the screen so i cant restart the Laptop. only the ease of access appears at the bottom right and so i dont know what to do. Any help?
That's is not exactly a flaw, you can have similar results booting with a flash drive for example. The solution is Bitlocker, with the hard drive encrypted no one will be able to use this trick.
Blocker is a great thing, but it has its limitations. I want to be able to access my Windows partition from Linux which I have on another partition. I can’t do that a Bitlocker is enabled.
If my laptop is stolen, can the thief use this to get access to the contents of the laptop? If so, what is the purpose of the password if there is a way around it?
Doesn't work like this on (more recent?!) Windows 10 as it will ask for Password here. Works only by using this method using Windows-Setup Media entering restore-mode and Command-Prompt there.
What about it's bitlocker enabled drive? Bitlocker on windows drive c do not prompt you for password nor recovery key when you log in to your windows account. Does that mean strangers will be able to use this method to access our encrypted drive c? Update: Doesn't work if you have bitlocker
Does work if you have bitlocker AND have the recovery key to access the drive with your windows\system32 directory to backup and replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe (make the backup copy of utilman.exe before copying cmd.exe over it!)
How? My win10 asked admin password to access anything in the trouble shooting
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@nanowar1192 Yeah, it seems like it doesn't work for W10 anymore. I mean, before trying it on the affected PC, I created in another PC some Virtual Machines, one with W11 and other with W10, and as you said, with W10, in order to access the Command Prompt, it asks you to log in, so, we get to the same point as the begin. But with W11, curiously, it does work exactly as the video. So, if you're using W10, this workaround won't work for you. I'm not sure if it is related to the Windows version or if it is only for local accounts and not when you use your Microsoft Personal Account (email address and your password) to sign in. I suggest you continue looking for other ways, but if none work, you can try to extract the hard disk from the PC and connect it to another PC and see if you are able to extract all the needed data. Good luck, dude!
I am having trouble opening the command prompt after having overwritten utilman.exe with cmd.exe and restarting. When I click on accessibility I get the command window flashing for a split second only and then it disappears. :((( What shall I do now??? I am worried I have messed with the system and now I am stuck in the middle of the process with no way of changing it back. Can I force restart again at this stage? Please help.🙏 Update: I have finally simply figured out the password by combining various elements that I knew the laptop previous user (my late partner) frequently used in passwords. However, the file explore is not loading. Is it anything to do with this utilman/cmd overwrite??? I read in the comments below that this overwrite deletes encryped files or something like that. Is this what happened???
The second time I tried this solution, I experienced what you describe. I got around it by logging in using safe mode. That allowed the accessibility activated cmd.exe to launch. I was able to then reset the password on a local admin account then reboot and use that account as intended.
This method MAY work, it certainly does NOT work on a AsusPro notebook I am asked to recover. Instead of opening the selected Command window during the reboot process a blue Windows login screen (with both accounts listed) pops up, requesting the very password the users do no longer remember. The device has no CD tray so I cannot even use a Windows CD to boot. Even worse: the device does NOT react to any of the standard BIOS/Boot menu options (ESC, F2, F8..) when firing it up. All attempts are ignored and lead to the standard Login screen of Windows. What NOW? I promised help, came here and leave without any real solution..
Very easy and best way to reset password without any 3rd party application.🤝
Only works if the PC's users aren't all admins. Otherwise, before you can't use command prompt, it asks for password, which makes it utterly useless, as that's the whole point
Any solution?
Any solution?
But you still can use command prompt from a usb intallation no?
@@carlosdimey7379 no, it's the same if all the accounts are admin locked
If this is true, then are we just regaining access to a non admin account? Thanks for this information though.
😂😂😂 Had I seen this 3 hours ago, would have saved me from resetting my whole computer.
Thanks a lot dude, I was not able to log in my password until I got your help to recover it
Bro taught me how to bypass passwords 💀
It doesn't work if your computer is encrypted because your computer doesn't decrypt anything until the boot process and this is bypassing that
Normally i don't comment but this deserves one, great job!
This tutorial is very helpful, simple and easy to follow.
To think I had doubt when I came across it. I thought I’d lost all my files
Thank youuuuu
It works ! Make sure to use accurate location for your Utilman.exe. In my case Ultilman.exe is located at D:\Windows\System32 (not at C:\Windows\System32
Ohhh love you so much
Yea I did it but it still say incorrect password?
@@LilRodDREADED can you try again. Steep by steep slowly, goodluck. It work, I completed
I need a visual step by step can't understand what it's saying, help
I think this might be strictly for local and domain only accounts. Online Microsoft accounts will force a password from the looks of it. Following the steps listed, this is what I got: I booted the PC, I held shift and clicked restart. The PC booted in to the safemode / recovery mode screen. As seen in the video, I selected the trouble shoot, then advanced options, then clicked the start command prompt option. The PC then reboots to a screen where the administrator account is listed only. When clicking on this option, it asks for the administrator password. So in this case, this method does not work.
yess this method isn't working
This is only for local accounts
@@KafkaKLA Did you find any please?
It's not working. faced same problem
You cant do this anymore, i think these comments are all just bots lmao
Edit: OKAY I GET IT, IT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU AND IVE NOTICED THAT YOU DONT NEED TO FRIGIN REPLY TO ME SAYING "it worked for me 🤓 🤚" BECAUSE I GET IT OKAY
Worked for me 😭
Why not… still working tho
Yea didnt work for me. Still asking for password to gain access to command promp
@@albertogomez1200dit something else worked?
It's working very well, you many not have executed properly!!
they are asking for password even for command prompt🤣
You found a solution?
For me too. They are asking for password for open the command prompt… Dou you have any other solutions?
@tatabelinello
@@rg4trueno808boot from windows 10 iso usb. then once in the installation screen press shift +f10 it will open the command prompt. do all the same commands as the video at 0:56.
@@rg4trueno808 did you get any solution pls
@@tatabelinello did you have any solution pls
Microsoft hates it's uses being able to fix issues yourself 😢
And you just lost all of your encrypted files. You should put warning ⚠️ in the video about this
So, is it useless that he change the file name back to the original in the end of the video?
how so? please explain, thank you
So no explanation?
@@dimasnr00 No, changing file name back just restores accessibility options and does not restore the encryption keys. When you reset the password, encryption keys are lost and files can not be decrypted any more. Just google "Accessing EFS-encrypted files after resetting Windows password"
Changing the file name back at the end of the video just restores the accessibility features functionality at the login screen. It has nothing to do with restoring access to encrypted files.
You cant imagine how thankful I am, you literally saved my day
Oh my gooood. I just got back my computer. This video is the best. Whoever thinks it doesn't work, try to follow it properly. A million thanks for the creator
Did u got back ur files?
You are the best among all the best.. end to end IT solution.
Mines says the drive is locked with a bitlocker Drive Encrypted
It worked for me, you are amazing bro👌👌👍👍
Bro, you´re a star. I watched 10 Videox about this, yours the only one who helped me. Thank a million times.
No problem 👍
Thank you so much !
I just struggled with my user name which has 2 names, so I needed to use it with quotation marks "username" and then it worked :)
Thankyou this method still works as of August 2024. Really helpful. And yes im not a bot
Thanks for the video! My son has been locked out of his computer for a week. He's a happy camper now. :)
It does not work.
Clicking on the command prompt requires the administrator password to open it
Same here. Did you solve it?
@@kervicole only way to solve is throght DVD or bootable device
Same problem 😢
That works 31/05/2024! If your cmd is disappearing try to turn on safe mode. It’s in the same menu, when you hold shift. Good luck 🤞
This is a great guide to help me resetting my password. Thank you so much.
👎You skipped the part where it asks for an admin password to access the command prompt.👎
That's the problem right there!
@@sharp1979asexactly
So this method still works if you use a live Win10/11 USB and click on repair on the installation menu.
What is a Live USB? Is it a USB with a working copy of Windows on it? Can you explain? Thank you so much.
@@BrandonZickefoose2014 a live USB or a bootable USB is how you install windows with a thumb drive. you can make one using any thumb drive and the windows installation manager.
Why does mine say "System Error 8646 the system is not authoritative for the specified account and therefore cannot complete operation" and cannot change password?
Same error for me. :(
same
you deserve way more then a thumbs up for this.
Thanksss !! Works. Para quem utiliza o pc pt-BR é só trocar administrators por administradores e funcionou perfeitamente aqui. Vlw !!!
Pra mim esta dando isso "Erro de sistema 8646."
é só vc trocar o comando administrators para administradores, ai esse erro vai sumir@@cristiano_adm
Ah yes how to restart password that you forgot using the password you forgot
Thanks a lot. Just’ve restored my pc. God save you 🎉
You are a lifesaver!! Thank you so much....I wish I could like it 1 million times!!!
What words have to type in comment?
I didn't get
Actually when you open command prompt it asks you for password
Yes.
This works believe me.
If you somehow manage to open the cmd (with accessibility icon) you have to type *control userpasswords2* in the cmd. This will open a password manager window. You will be able to do the rest yourself :D
GIVE A LIKE IF WORKS
It says You cannot change the password for (account)
It was WAYY easier on Win 10 😅
use windows install usb, then before start install scren,. press shift+f10 , use cmd
A great option for a forgotten password, but also leaves an open door for strangers to take over your system. Very questionable!
As he noted in the video he copied Utilman.exebak back to Utilman.exe to close that hole.
If someone has intention to hack ur computer be sure they would do it remotely and u wouldn't even notice.
Kinda amazing how simple this is.
Doesn't work if it's only one user and he's admin. In troubleshooting mode it does not let you use CMD without providing password for that user.
What can I do in that case?
@@c0b7spiros brother please did you find a way?
you will need to create a bootable drive, load from the drive then click on repair drive and follow the same procedure from there@@c0b7spiros
@@c0b7spirosdid you find a way?
Sir, Thank you very much for your tutorial, in the beginning, I am struggle with unlocking the bitlocker, but then I found it. And finally my laptop is back without losing data. Thank you, again..
How did you bypass the bitlocker issue?
@@sandorswim I search youtube about it, I'll try to find it again and share here
@@sandorswim Hello, sorry, I can't remember which video was successfull unlock the bitlocker, but try search on youtube: "bitlocker unlock without password and recovery key". Hope that help
Worked perfectly for me .All I needed to do after that was to restart my pc because it was saying error but when I booted it everything was fine
After finishing the first step and entering into accessibility, it is not opening command prompt. Instead it is opening the same accessibility window.
True
Bro you have my highest esteem, you're a fucking genius! Thank you so much for this skill, I was able to access my PC after forgetting my password desperating trying and trying again. 100% safe method easy and fast, I have not lost any files, applications or features of my Pc. You are great!
BRO YOUR A LIFE SAVER I SAVED MY FRIENDS PC BEC OF U
You are the best! Thank you for this brilliantly simple tip which worked perfectly.
Thank you, reset my password without losing my files
But my computer requests a password to open the command prompt, cuz its administrator account, how can we solve it?
Same here thats why im here.
Get a bootable pendrive and boot from it and remove the account
Switch the user
You are right My PC is opening Administrator account and all is we have to restart the process
Still working! 17.02.2024!
Thanks many times!
This is as good as saving life! Thank you man!
on command prompt it requires a password...
me too
The CMD is already password protected 🙁
So basically, we now know how to hack somebody’s computer.
A great video to change the password which was forgotten.
I'm sure someone already said it but this doesn't work if there is an admin password and you forgot it or just don't know it!
BEST password hack. Thank you.
Thanks! I followed all your given steps. But through accessibility tab, at login page I still get command prompt tab. How can I turn it off. Please help.
Hi! Have you solved this? I’m facing the same issue now :(
This only works on local accounts, it simply refuses to alter a Microsoft account
Thank you. Excellent video & method. I haven't done it yet - I have a question:
After you replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe, how exactly do you close out the cmd window? I seem to remember having a problem with that long ago, when using Linux, and I can't remember. You just say "close it" (but not how to) and then jump to a windows screen offering "Continue" with no instructions in between. I'll wait to hear from you before I do this. I forgot my password because I've just been using a pin for years - my accounts settings say my account is local.
Oh, and what I really want to do is to NOT have a password at all, I think that can be done in Settings?? You have just shown me that a password is useless here, if someone is determined. I'm 83, live alone, and no one has access to my PC. However, I don't want my son to have trouble getting into my computer when I kick the bucket.
You are the best. You made it very easy thank you so much
Another outstanding video in the series. Many thanks.
Great tutorial but gosh anyone who knows this trick can access to your computer 😰
Great video, thank you.
I wanted to ask if you can do a video on how can you make visible in a winpe environment (strelec winpe) the internal hard disk of a pc in raid mode in bios, which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a raid pc but only a pc with intel rst active.
I have a dell pc with intel rst active and raid mode on in bios and not ahci, which doesn’t show the internal hard drive or the windows directories in it if i boot into the pc using strelec winpe. I think you already know this software package. I’ve read somewhere that we should integrate into the winpe the intel rst drivers but i don’t know how to do that.
Thanks again
For Asus ppl the key is f12 instead of shift
Thank you and its working again..God bless you more...
it s not working .... even safe mode requires password ................................is working if you use usb image of windows ....and that what you use thanks
But i am unable to use the accessibility options after the utilman reset
copy from your backup utilman.exe.backup to utilman.exe (do so from the command prompt from the windows installer)
There is no Restart button 0:10
This has worked for me. Thank you so much
I tried to reset the password but the power button isn't appearing on the screen so i cant restart the Laptop. only the ease of access appears at the bottom right and so i dont know what to do. Any help?
YES FINALLY.. AFTER HOURS AND HOURS OF BS YT VIDEOS THIS FINALLY WORKED.... TYVM
That's is not exactly a flaw, you can have similar results booting with a flash drive for example. The solution is Bitlocker, with the hard drive encrypted no one will be able to use this trick.
Blocker is a great thing, but it has its limitations. I want to be able to access my Windows partition from Linux which I have on another partition. I can’t do that a Bitlocker is enabled.
@@ScottBeamerThat's the point of bitblocker. If you want to share files between operating systems just create a non-bitlocker protected partition
If you have saved your bitlocker recovery key, you can enter it when prompted. If you did not save your bitlocker recovery key, that's on you.
u cant use the cmd without loggin in
Is it also applicable in windows 10?
If my laptop is stolen, can the thief use this to get access to the contents of the laptop? If so, what is the purpose of the password if there is a way around it?
encrypt the hard drive
Thanks man. Good work. Helped me to reset
Doesn't work like this on (more recent?!) Windows 10 as it will ask for Password here. Works only by using this method using Windows-Setup Media entering restore-mode and Command-Prompt there.
Requires password to use command prompt so the search continues!
It works!!! Thank you very much for this solution
This is why we encrypt our drives...
Does it work for laptop..?
Didnt work for me - CMD prompt still asked me to select a user and then password
Then what did u do
Same for me here
Plz help me
What about it's bitlocker enabled drive? Bitlocker on windows drive c do not prompt you for password nor recovery key when you log in to your windows account. Does that mean strangers will be able to use this method to access our encrypted drive c?
Update: Doesn't work if you have bitlocker
Correct.
Does work if you have bitlocker AND have the recovery key to access the drive with your windows\system32 directory to backup and replace utilman.exe with cmd.exe (make the backup copy of utilman.exe before copying cmd.exe over it!)
@@JAMessinaJr Just forget about c: drive. Create a separate partition for and store them on D: saves you all troubles on this dangerous C: crap
Thank you for sharing your helpful tips. It works. I had to do this for my client. Thank you.
It no longer works you still need the password to get in!
Thus are the best and success fully tutorial there i wach, thank you sou much, youre a iev saver bud
You saved my life bro ❤
yeah but it doesnt work on all windows some still require a password to access the cmd
appreciated as its a very simple way and can resent in a short span of time, great
Glad it was helpful!
It doesn't work it ask for the password, this is so outdated.
We don't always forget our password. Your PC does.
You are the best, GOLD info, much appreciate.
The second step didn't work, but I was still able to reset the password using net user etc... 👍
Does this command decay any password in my laptop because my friend aternos password is vanished in saved passwords
Still working on Windows 11 OS. Thanks a lot!
How? My win10 asked admin password to access anything in the trouble shooting
@nanowar1192 Yeah, it seems like it doesn't work for W10 anymore.
I mean, before trying it on the affected PC, I created in another PC some Virtual Machines, one with W11 and other with W10, and as you said, with W10, in order to access the Command Prompt, it asks you to log in, so, we get to the same point as the begin.
But with W11, curiously, it does work exactly as the video.
So, if you're using W10, this workaround won't work for you.
I'm not sure if it is related to the Windows version or if it is only for local accounts and not when you use your Microsoft Personal Account (email address and your password) to sign in.
I suggest you continue looking for other ways, but if none work, you can try to extract the hard disk from the PC and connect it to another PC and see if you are able to extract all the needed data.
Good luck, dude!
how do I open command prompt after reboot at 1:47'
I am having trouble opening the command prompt after having overwritten utilman.exe with cmd.exe and restarting. When I click on accessibility I get the command window flashing for a split second only and then it disappears. :((( What shall I do now??? I am worried I have messed with the system and now I am stuck in the middle of the process with no way of changing it back. Can I force restart again at this stage? Please help.🙏 Update: I have finally simply figured out the password by combining various elements that I knew the laptop previous user (my late partner) frequently used in passwords. However, the file explore is not loading. Is it anything to do with this utilman/cmd overwrite??? I read in the comments below that this overwrite deletes encryped files or something like that. Is this what happened???
The second time I tried this solution, I experienced what you describe. I got around it by logging in using safe mode. That allowed the accessibility activated cmd.exe to launch. I was able to then reset the password on a local admin account then reboot and use that account as intended.
My command prompt is closing when I enter net administrator......please help me
This method MAY work, it certainly does NOT work on a AsusPro notebook I am asked to recover. Instead of opening the selected Command window during the reboot process a blue Windows login screen (with both accounts listed) pops up, requesting the very password the users do no longer remember.
The device has no CD tray so I cannot even use a Windows CD to boot. Even worse: the device does NOT react to any of the standard BIOS/Boot menu options (ESC, F2, F8..) when firing it up. All attempts are ignored and lead to the standard Login screen of Windows.
What NOW?
I promised help, came here and leave without any real solution..
Thanks you saved me you are very ingenious🎉😮
very helpful! thank you so much 🎉