Hacked! Change Windows User Password Using CMD: - Have you ever thought about the ways you can hack the other accounts on your Windows system? What if I tell you that you don't need to know the current password to set a new password for any of the Windows user accounts? Now the question arises: how can it be done? Do we need additional software to accomplish this trick? Well, what I'm going to tell you may surprise you a bit. You just need to open the command prompt in administrator mode to try this cool trick. All excited? Why don't you dive into the article and learn all about this useful hack then?

STEP 1

  • Start typing in CMD to your Cortana search box. This will result in the Cortana displaying the search results for you. Choose Command Prompt program from the search results and right click on it. From the menu that gets expanded out, click on Run as administrator option.

STEP 2

  • When the Command Prompt opens up with adminstrator previleges, type in the net user command and hit Enter key. The net user command lists out all the user accounts in your Windows for you.

STEP 3

  • Now that you can see all your Windows user accounts, you can select the account that you want to change the password for. To change the password for a particular account, type in net user followed by the user account followed by your new password. In the given screenshot, I have changed the password for the user account named Nova Ann and the new password is NewPassword. The format of the net user command to change the user account password is as follows:
  • net user UserAccount NewPassword