Windows 11 admin password forgot

Question

My system is dell inspiron 13 7348. My windows 11 admin account was locked. meaning i forgot the password.

laptop does not have optical drive. i tried to boot from USB flash drive but i was unable to even boot from usb.

i tried lot of options/Softwares to unlock it but can't be able to unlock. please let me know what needs to be done to resolve the issue

ejn63 · Answer

The system was most likely activated with a Microsoft account -- if so, log in and change the password there.

If that fails, or the account is local only and you've exhausted all the options, reload Windows.

William Bussey · Answer

Hi johnpease! Nowadays most Windows 11 computers use UEFI firmware and you have to format your USB drive with FAT32 & GPT partition scheme. You can use Rufus to burn your Windows 11 ISO image to your USB drive and then follow this method to reset your password:

http://bit.ly/1QKwBD9

William Bussey · Answer

For these people who has created a reset disk for forgotten password , they can directly use the created password reset disk to recover forgot password on Windwod 11,

Furthermore , for those people who didn't created , you can consider these way to reset your Windwos password , such as the Super Admin Account , Microsoft Acount , NT password reset , CMD ,,,,

William Bussey · Answer

Maybe the CMD can help you to set a new login password on Windows 11 ,

Kflash08 · Answer

@William Bussey​ Changing the password in such a manner should be done with extreme caution! With Windows 11 and Microsoft's recent attempts at enforcing drive encryption, force changing a password without providing the original credentials will invalidate the encryption key, which in turn will result in loss of access to all personal files on the computer (done as a security measure). Only do this if you know that drive encryption and/or Bitlocker are disabled.

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