changing local win10 password when lost and stuck at login

Will both these methods work if windows is set to booting safemode minimal?

one uses Lazesoft
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How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows 10 Password For Free - YouTube

This uses windows install usb renaming utilman.exe and swapping a renamed cmd.exe to utilman.exe

Then running net user commands
How To Reset Your Forgotten Windows 10 User Account Password For Free - YouTube

You can use lazesoft It will be the easiest way to go. Just make a flash drive of it and then use bios to boot from it.

Snakefist said:

You can use lazesoft It will be the easiest way to go. Just make a flash drive of it and then use bios to boot from it.

Good, because a day ago I was stuck after setting to boot safe mode minimal at the login prompt and the login kept demanding a password. To fix I actually had to do a fresh install wiping the drive. I had set to safe mode minimal to change from IDE driver to AHCI driver. I redid my clone TWICE and it happened both times the password demand after setting safemode minimal, and I could find no way forward then to continue with my clone copy to a new SSD.

So I made sure AHCI was set in the bios before the new install. Caused me a lot more trouble that it should have trying to switch to AHCI. Which caused several days of anguish and wondering why. Took about 3 days to get something working again, yesterday got up at 3AM as I had some trouble sleeping over it, and of course cloning takes hours. A new install was fairly quick

sdowney717 said:

Good, because a day ago I was stuck after setting to boot safe mode minimal at the login prompt and the login kept demanding a password. To fix I actually had to do a fresh install wiping the drive. I had set to safe mode minimal to change from IDE driver to AHCI driver. I redid my clone TWICE and it happened both times the password demand after setting safemode minimal, and I could find no way forward then to continue with my clone copy to a new SSD.

So I made sure AHCI was set in the bios before the new install. Caused me a lot more trouble that it should have trying to switch to AHCI. Which caused several days of anguish and wondering why.

Since it says you are using windows 7 you could of just used a reg tweak while in windows to set it to use AHCI then reboot windows to save and then make sure you have it set in bios. If you want you can go to your old install set the registry file and then clone it and it shouldn't cause no problems.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista - Windows 7 Help Forums

Snakefist said:

Since it says you are using windows 7 you could of just used a reg tweak while in windows to set it to use AHCI then reboot windows to save and then make sure you have it set in bios.

No this is win10 pro, I no longer have any win7 PC, is that somewhere in my profile? I have 5 win 10 devices attached to my account now

I cant find where to change that profile info, someone have a link?

If password set for local user account you can use Hiren’s BootCD to reset the user account password.
Download | Hiren's BootCD PE

• Boot your computer with Hiren’s BootCD PE.
• Goto Start Menu -> Securiy -> Passwords -> NT Password Edit
• Open your SAM file (It is usually located in C:\Windows\System32\config\SAM).
• Click your username and the click ‘Change password’. To set a password, type your password both ‘New password’ and ‘Verify’ fields and then click to ‘OK’. To remove the password, leave both ‘New password’ and ‘Verify’ fields blank and then click to ‘OK’.

sdowney717 said:

No this is win10 pro, I no longer have any win7 PC, is that somewhere in my profile? I have 5 win 10 devices attached to my account now

Yea if you look under your name to the left of your post it says win 7 and ubuntu. Also further down under my computer it says the same. Sorry i was going by your mini profile to the left of your post.

Snakefist said:

Yea if you look under your name to the left of your post it says win 7 and ubuntu. Also further down under my computer it says the same.

I cant find where to change that info

sdowney717 said:

I cant find where to change that info

That info is the OS: line in your System Specs, change it here: https://www.tenforums.com/profile.php?do=extra

sdowney717 said:

I cant find where to change that info

So sorry i gave you the wrong information.