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This updated guide examines Click: How to Delete Someone's Windows Password and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.
Responsible-use note: Apply security techniques only to systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test.
Method 1of 2:
Using Control Panel
Open Start
. Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen or press?Win.
Typecontrol panelinto Start. This will search your computer for the Control Panel app.
ClickControl Panel. It's a blue box at the top of the Start window.
ClickUser Accounts. The User Accounts icon resembles two people.
ClickUser Accounts. It's at the top of the page.
ClickManage another account. This option is below the "Make changes to your user account" heading.
Click the account whose password you want to remove. It should be on the right side of the window.
ClickChange the Password. It's a link on the left side of the window.
- If you don't see this option for your selected user account, the account isn't local and thus cannot have its password deleted.
ClickChange password. This button is at the bottom of the window. As long as you leave the password fields on this page blank, doing so will remove your selected user's password.
Method 2of 2:
Using Command Prompt
Open Start
. Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen, or press the?Winkey.
Typecommand promptinto Start. This searches your computer for the Command Prompt app.
Right-click
Command Prompt. It should be at the top of the Start window. Doing so prompts a drop-down menu.
ClickRun as administrator. This option will be near the top of the drop-down menu.
- If you see an error message after doing this, you aren't using an administrator account and thus cannot delete other users' passwords.
ClickYeswhen prompted. Doing so opens Command Prompt.
Typenet user "username" ""into Command Prompt. Replace "username" with the account name, but keep the quotation marks.
- For example, if the account name was "JohnSmith", you'd typenet user "JohnSmith" ""into Command Prompt.
- If the account name has a space in it (e.g., John Smith), type an underscore where the space would be (e.g., John_Smith).
Press?Enter. Doing so runs your command and removes the password for the selected account.
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