How to change Admin or other account Password from Command Prompt ?


If you want to change your account password then you need to go to control panel and then User Account and finally select change password for this account. It will ask you to type your new password twice. It is very exhausted task.

If you don't want to pass through this entire process you can do this very easily by Command Prompt. With the help of a Command Prompt you can change any account password but you must have Administrator privileges.

If you have administrator privileges in your account then you have the entire leverage to change any account password within two Commands.

People ask many times How to change Admin or other account Password from Command Prompt ? believe me it is very easy and tricky.

So to change Admin or other account Password from Command Prompt you need to follow these steps.

Step 1. Open Command prompt as an Administrator or go to start and type cmd right click on command prompt and choose run as administrator.

Step 2. After opening command prompt just type net users and press Enter. It will show you all the users and administrators accounts. Major Administrator account will always be the first account.

Step 3. Now type net users (Pick Any account name from list and type the account name after net users) * and press Enter. E.g in my case I am going to choose Administrator so the command will be net users Administrator *

Note : Mind the gap or space between net, users, Administrator and * .

It will then ask you to type your new password for that account and then ask you to confirm your password.
Note : It will not show you any character when you are typing your password so if you type your password be careful what you are typing.

So this is a quick way to change your account password by using Command Prompt . This easy command teaches you How to change Admin or other account Password from Command Prompt ? It is quite easy and very handy for computer geeks. Keep learning the power of the Command Prompt in the previous and next chapters.

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