And now I can't enter the operating system?

I logged into Windows 8.1 on my laptop using a Microsoft account, now I can't log in, because I forgot my password and when I enter it, I get an error. "Invalid password. Make sure you are using the password for your Microsoft account."

All your articles on this topic have not helped. It is undesirable to roll back the laptop to factory settings. I'm waiting for help.

Hello everybody! Most recently, the admin wrote, but none of them will help if you log into the operating system under a Microsoft account, in this case you need to create a new user with administrator rights in the Win 8.1 recovery environment and log in, then change the password to the account Microsoft. It is not difficult to do this, and I have prepared detailed instructions for you.

• Note: Two of the easiest ways. Yet

When the initial system installation window appears, click Shift + F10... A command prompt will open.

First, in the recovery environment, we need to find out the drive letter of the installed Windows 8.1, enter the command notepad

Notepad opens. File->Open

Click on "This Computer" and find the files of the installed Windows 8.1 on the disk ( C:).

We return to the command line window and enter the commands:

copy c: \ windows \ System32 \ utilman.exe c: \- the command creates a copy of the utilman.exe file in the root of the disk (C :).

copy c: \ windows \ system32 \ cmd.exe c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman.exe- the command replaces the utilman.exe file with cmd.exe. Enter Yes when asked to replace.

We reboot the laptop.

In the initial login window, click on the call button for the "Ease of Access Center"

but instead of them the command line opens, because we replaced the file utilman.exe, responsible for the launch of the "Center for Ease of Access", at cmd.exe.

Enter the command

net user Chaser / add

create a new user (Chaser - the name of the new user. You can set any name, at your discretion).

Enter the command

netplwiz

In the accounts window that opens, add administrator rights to the new user. Select a new user and click on the button Properties

Go to the "Group Membership" tab.

We mark the item Administrator, click Apply and OK.

Administrator rights have been assigned to the new user. Click on the "Change password" button.

We enter the password and confirmation, then OK.

We reboot the laptop.

Click on the arrow

We select the new user created by us.

Enter your password

The operating system creates a new user profile

Windows 8.1 loads a new user profile.

Resetting your Microsoft account password

http://windows.microsoft.com/ru-ru/windows-live/account-reset-password-forgot-faq

Click Reset Password

We mark the item I forgot my password and press Further.

Enter the Microsoft account login (maybe the email address), guess and enter the "captcha", click Next.

We need to verify our identity.

The easiest way to do this is through our email address specified when registering your Microsoft account.

Enter the address of our mailbox and press the button Send code.

A letter from Microsoft comes to our inbox with a seven-digit code.

Enter the security code on the password reset page

Enter a new password and confirm it.

Microsoft account recovered with new password.

We reboot the laptop.

Click on the arrow.

Selecting a Microsoft account profile.

We enter a new password.

We log in with a new password.

If you don't need a new user profile, you can delete it.

Opening the control panel

Accounts and family safety

User accounts

Managing another account

Select the Chaser account we created

Deleting an account

Delete files

Deleting an account

Account deleted

Another way to reset your password.

As my experience tells me, many Windows 10 users, after installing it, disable the login password so as not to constantly enter it when turning on the PC.
After a while, some kind of failure may occur, after which the operating system starts again asking for authorization. And the user has forgotten the password of the Windows 10 account! Or he didn’t know him at all - the installation was done by a friend, neighbor, or call technician. And what to do? How to log into your computer ?! There are two ways out.
The first is reinstalling Windows. But at the same time, you can lose data stored in the system partition.
The second is to try to reset the forgotten password of the Administrator or the username you are using. We will talk about this today.

To begin with, let me remind you that two types of accounts can be used in Windows 10:

1) Local account
2) Microsoft account

I will tell you in detail about password recovery for both cases.

Reset Windows 10 password

To complete this procedure, you first need a bootable USB flash drive or installation disk from which to boot. After choosing the language for installing the OS, you should see the following window:

We select the "Diagnostics" section and go to the following menu:

Here you need to select the "Advanced options" item. A third menu will appear:

Click on the "Command Line" item. After that, the usual command line with Administrator rights will start, which will help us reset the Windows 10 user password if he has forgotten it.

But it's not so easy to do this from the installation flash drive - you need to boot the installed OS first. But you cannot start the command line from the Windows authorization menu! How to be? Here we will resort to a military trick - we will replace the utility of special abilities utilman.exe... To do this, enter the command:

move c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman.exe c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman2.exe

So we will first make a backup copy of this utility file utilman2.exe. It will allow you to return its functionality back later.
Now let's copy the executable file cmd.exe to the utilman.exe file with the following command:

copy c: \ windows \ system32 \ cmd.exe c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman.exe

Now, when you try to start the Accessibility Wizard, a console with Administrator rights will open.

Reboot and start Windows 10 as usual.
As soon as the authorization window appears, in the lower right corner, click on the following icon:

We click on it and, if all the previous actions were performed correctly, we get a command prompt window:

Net user username password

In it, instead of username, you must enter the name of your account, instead of password - a new password to it. For example, like this:

Net user setos 1234321

Press the Enter key. Now you can close the console window and try to log in to the system.

Comment:
1) If suddenly you have forgotten not only the password, but also the username itself, then it can be viewed in the list of system users. To do this, enter the command net user... All users will appear with a description of the role of each of them.
2) If you need an accessibility tool, do not forget to start the PC again from the bootable USB flash drive or disk and return the utilman.exe utility back. To do this, you need to enter the following command:

copy c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman2.exe c: \ windows \ system32 \ utilman.exe

After that, it should function again as before.

Recovering your Microsoft account password

Now let's discuss what to do when you forgot your Windows 10 password with a Microsoft account. Then you have to look for another computer with Internet access to go to the site login.live.com. There you need to enter your username (this is either an email address or a phone number) and click on the "Next" button.

Now you need to get verified. The most convenient option is to receive a verification code by letter or answer a security question (if you remember the answer, of course).
The most extreme option is to click on "I do not have this data." Then you will already restore authorization by contacting Microsoft technical support and following their instructions.
In any of these cases, the solution will be to link to the page for changing the password. you will receive a link to change your password. When entering a new one, you will have to comply with all the requirements - the length of the key phrase must consist of numbers, letters and not shorter than 8 characters.
And only after all these misadventures you will be able to remove the forgotten password and successfully enter your computer! Good luck!

If you've forgotten the password used to sign in to services such as Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive, and Xbox Live, you may need to reset the password.

• First, make sure Caps Lock is off, as the case of the password is important. If you are confident that you are using the correct password, but you still cannot log in, this means that your account has been compromised.
• To reset the password:
  • Go to the Reset your password page.
  • Select a reason to reset your password, and then click Next.
  • Enter the email address of the Microsoft account you are trying to recover.
  • Enter the characters shown on the screen, and then click Next.
  • If you have added account security information for your account, you will be sent a one-time code to your phone number or email address. If you enter this code on the next screen, you can create a new password.

Windows 10 computer

• On the sign-in screen, enter your Microsoft account name if it doesn't appear. If there are multiple accounts on your computer, select the one that you need to reset.
• Please select I forgot my password, below the password text box.
• On the screen Account recovery enter the characters that appear in the text box below Enter the characters you see, and then click Next.
• On the screen Data checking select the option to receive the security code via SMS or email. If you choose the SMS option, enter the last four digits of your phone number and then tap Send Code.
• After receiving the code via SMS or email on another device, enter it, click Next.
• On the screen Password reset, create a new password. This will set a new password. Click Next to return to the login screen.
• Sign in with your new Microsoft account password.

Yesterday a friend turned to me with a question: "I forgot the password for my Lumiya, what should I do?" First, we figured out which password she forgot. Microsoft account password or Lumia lock screen password. Everything turned out to be simple, she cannot enter the store (she did not understand how the password fell off), but while waiting for her arrival, I google how it is possible to unlock Lumia's smartphone at all and now I will share this with you.

If you forgot your Microsoft account password

In this case, the password is recovered in an elementary way:
1. Go to https://login.live.com

2. Select "Can't access your account?"

3. Then follow the intuitive instructions.

If you forget your Lumia lock screen password

This situation is no longer pleasant, because you will have to do the so-called hard reset of the Lumiya smartphone and the phone will return to factory settings.

Note!
When you do all the steps described below, all information stored in it (files, photos, games, contacts, music, and others) will be deleted from the phone. In fact, you will have Lumiya as if from a store.

Before resetting the settings, it is advisable to fully charge Lumiya, or at least bring the charge to 50%.

Method 1.

• Turn off the phone, simultaneously hold down the volume down button + power + camera button, hold it until it vibrates.
• After vibration, release the power button while continuing to hold the camera and volume buttons. Press "WIN", wait for reboot

Method 2.

• Turn off your Lumiya and unplug the charger plug from your phone
• Now you need to press and hold the volume down key on the phone and connect the charger. After that, an exclamation mark (!) Should appear on the screen of your phone.
• Next, you need to press the keys in the following order: key increase volume, key decrease volume, key nutrition, key decrease volume.
• You need to wait a little about 5 minutes until the reset process is complete. At this time, you will see rotating gears on the smartphone screen. After this process, the phone screen will go blank for about 30 seconds and then the phone will restart.

I hope any of these methods will help you.

If you forget your password, you can get instructions on how to recover your account from Microsoft by reading this entire article. This will be helped by a special service system "Microsoft Live" - ​​this is a development that works in the "online" mode in order to control all devices with a connected MS account.
Several laptops, computers and other gadgets on the Windows system can be connected to the service at the same time. If the user has forgotten the login information, then the connection with these devices can be lost forever.

Microsoft has provided for this, and therefore a system for recovering password and login information was developed. The main methods will be provided below.

1. Reset password on PC

If your account is tied only to a PC, you can reset all its settings without restoring your account.
To gain access to your device, you need to load it through "recovery" and create an additional system user to get administrator rights, but from a different account.

Thus, it will be easy to regain access to the OS.

Also, one of the ways is to reinstall the OS, but then the user data will be permanently deleted. Follow the instructions to reset your password and sign in:

To install the OS, you need to stock up on an installation disc with the operating system and an installation flash card. Insert the disk or flash drive into the required port (floppy drive) and through the BIOS set the required queue order and restart the PC. An updated repair window will appear.
- After the initial installation window appears, you will need to press Shift + F on the keyboard. In order to call the command line and give the PC some instructions with commands.
- In the CMD window, enter notepad - to call the notepad.

- In the window of the text document editor, find the toolbar, go to "File" and "Explorer".

- On the left appears " My computer"To which you will need to go. And then to the system section.

- We close the explorer window and pay attention to the KMD-line window, to its commands and actions taking place in the notebook.

- The line "Replace" will appear, to which you will need to answer "Yes" and confirm the action. Turn off the PC, change the boot order on the OS.
- Turn off the PC again. We are waiting for the data entry screen to appear. We find a special button in the lower left corner.

The Command Prompt will open again.
- Enter net user Chaser / add, confirm the action. In this way, the system account can be updated and replaced.
- Enter the command netplwiz.

- After entering the second command, a window will appear in which you will need to create an additional user for this system.

- In the groups tab, set this record as administrator.

- Now go to change account and restart your pc.

- Everything should work. Connect to your account.

2. Recovery through Microsoft service

Go to the official page: https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx?mkt=ru-RU, follow the instructions.
- We indicate the reasons for the impossibility of logging into your account:

- Enter the real mail address, continue further.
- You will be prompted to recover your password via mail, or a special code that will come to your mobile phone specified during registration.

If there was no access to the mail, as well as the phone number, then click on the required item and fill out the application form, you will be called after a while at the specified number and will tell you how to restore access.

3. Problems with MS accounts

If any suspicious activity appears on your account, you should change your password right there. Your payment data in the form of cards for purchases in the store is tied to the LC, so your data and funds can be used without your knowledge. We enter the same data recovery page, but choose a different reason for the request:

A link to reset your password will be sent to your e-mail, use it and set a new, complex password.