Welcome to confirmgist, within is article/tutorial on how to reset windows 7 administration password. After going through this article you will be able to reset your admin password and any users password in windows 7.
Windows 7 have it own inbuilt Utilman.exe utility for those that are disabled, and Utilman.exe allow all users to configure accessibility options such as Magnifier, High contrast them, Narrator and On Screen Keyboard before they log onto the system.
This utility was designed for disabled people with problems like hard of sight, hearing or mobility to log onto windows by themselves without the need of outside help. You can run this utility by pressing Window Key + U on window log in screen or you can click on Ease of Access icon. This will load Utilman.exe application from Windows\system32 directory. And this application run under the system account which have the highest level of privilege.
You can take advantage of this utility to reset the user accounts password. But you will need to replace the Utilman.exe file with cmd.exe file and you will have access to the command prompt running under the System privileges, from command prompt you can easily reset user password.
Carefully follow the steps below on how to reset the windows 7 admin password
First you will have to replace the Utilman.exe with cmd.exe. You can do this with several methods like boot system with live disk and replace the file, boot system with recovery disc and replace the file.
Let assume we dont have any bootable disk or windows CD, we will do this without any third party software or disk.
You can start by turning off the computer without properly shutdown, repeat this until you get Windows Error Recovery message on start up, then select launch start up repair (recommended) and press Enter key.
Window will load necessary file for recovery
Window will automatically try to fix the problems, this process usually take long time so stay calm, you dont need to do anything.
After a long wait at least 5-10mins you will receive following message
* Windows cannot repair this computer automatically
The you will Click view problem details
It will open problem details in message box. Scroll the message to bottom at the end of the message it contain hyper-linked privacy statement, Click it
Privacy statement will appear in notepad, Click Open option from the menu item, then you can click Computer to show all drive.
You have to check each drive (folder) for window drive letter showing, here will be different from the drive letter you see in My Computer while the computer boot normally. Open each drive and find out the partition drive which contain the windows installation files.
– Open System32 folder
– Change file type to all
– Select Utilman file and do Right click and click Copy
– Paste the copied file
– Select the copied file and do right click and click Rename
– We will change it with some descriptive name (set it to Utilman-org)
– We have taken the backup of original file. Now delete the original file.
– Select the Utilman file and do right click and click delete
– Confirm Delete Operation
– Now select the cmd file and do right click and click copy
– Paste the copied file
– Select the copied file do right click and click rename (Rename it with Utilman)
Now we have replaced the Utilman.exe with cmd.exe
That is all we need to do here. Close the dialog box, close the file and close the start up repair box then click finish.
The computer will be shutdown. Turn on the computer again and allow it to boot in normal process this time and on log in screen you will click Ease of Access icon. We have replaced Utilman.exe with cmd.exe so it will launch command prompt instead of accessibility options dialog box.
Type the following command and press enter
net user administrator *
net user Command
adminstrator User name (Replace it with user name if you are changing other users password)
* set new password (type the new password/retype the password to confirm it.)
Note that you will not see any asterisks (*) sign here when you type in your password.
Close the command prompt and use the new password to sign in
Now you have successfully changed the user password and now you will have to revert the change which you did during the process. Open my computer and open window partition.
– Look for System32 folder and open it, select the replaced Utilman file
– Do right click and click delete option
– Confirm Delete operation
– Select the utilman-org file and do right click and click rename
– Rename Utilman-org to Utilman
Now we have restored the original file, and original window utility. You can now restart to confirm the action and click on Ease of Access icon, this time it will launch original Utilman.exe
Good luck you can now enjoy your computer. If you find the article/tutorial useful, do share it with friend and leave your comment!
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