{"id":737,"date":"2014-08-25T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xfloyd.net\/?p=737"},"modified":"2014-08-25T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:15:44","slug":"lost-local-admin-password-win-88-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Lost local admin password Win 8\/8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touch or click on <strong>Troubleshoot<\/strong>, then <strong>Advanced options<\/strong>, and finally <strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>.<br \/>\nNow that <a href=\"http:\/\/pcsupport.about.com\/od\/termsc\/p\/command-prompt.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"9\">Command Prompt<\/a> is open, type the following <a href=\"http:\/\/pcsupport.about.com\/od\/termsc\/g\/commands.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"10\">command<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre><strong>copy c:\\windows\\system32\\utilman.exe c:\\<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230;and then press <strong>Enter<\/strong>. You should see a <em>1 file(s) copied<\/em> confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Next, type this command, again followed by <strong>Enter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre><strong>copy c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe c:\\windows\\system32\\utilman.exe<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Answer with <strong>Y<\/strong> or <strong>Yes<\/strong> to question about the <em>overwrite<\/em> of the <em>utilman.exe<\/em> file. You should now see another file copy confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Remove any flash drives or discs that you may have booted from in Step 1 and then restart your computer.<br \/>\nOnce the Windows 8 logon screen is available, click the <strong>Ease of Access icon<\/strong> at the bottom-left corner of the screen. <em>Command Prompt<\/em> should now open.<br \/>\nNext you need to execute the <a href=\"http:\/\/pcsupport.about.com\/od\/commandlinereference\/p\/net-user-command.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"11\">net user command<\/a> as shown below, replacing <strong>myusername<\/strong> with your user name, and <strong>mynewpassword<\/strong> with the password you&#8217;d like to begin using:<\/p>\n<pre><strong>net user myusername mynewpassword<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>For example, on my computer, I would execute the command like this:<\/p>\n<pre><strong>net user \"Tim Fisher\" a@rdvarksar3skarY<\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> You only need to use double quotes around your username if it happens to have a space in it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touch or click on Troubleshoot, then Advanced options, and finally Command Prompt. Now that Command Prompt is open, type the following command:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}