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How to Bypass Windows 8.1 Password - 5 Guides

Updated: By Melissa Eggleston

How to bypass login screen in Windows 8.1?

If you don't want to logon Windows 8.1 by entering a password, you can remove or disable password.

If you forgot Windows login password and you still not access Windows system, you can reset Windows password to blank by a reset disk or you can active the Administrator account by a bootable USB drive.

Here are five guides to bypass password in Windows 8.1.

5 guides to bypass Windows 8.1 password
Guide 1: Remove Windows 8.1 password by Control Panel
Guide 2: Disable Windows 8.1 password by User Accounts
Guide 3: Remove Windows 8.1 logon password by shortcut
Guide 4: Bypass Windows 8.1 password with a Windows Installation USB drive
Guide 5: Reset Windows 8.1 password to blank with a bootable USB drive

Guide 1: Remove Windows 8.1 password by Control Panel

Step 1: Right click This PC, click Properties.

this pc

Step 2: Click Control Panel Home.

control panel

Step 3: Click Change account type.

change account

Step 4: Click the user you would like to change.

click user

Step 5: Click Change the password.

change password

Step 6: Leave all text box blank, click Change password.

leave blank

As picture, password protected is removed.

password removed

Guide 2: Disable Windows 8.1 password by User Accounts

Step 1: Right click Start icon, select Run to open Run window. Or press shortcut key (Window + R) to open Run window.

click start

Step 2: Type "netplwiz" in the text box, click OK.

netplwiz

Step 3: On the User Accounts screen, don't tick Users must enter a username and password to use this computer. Click Apply.

don't tick

Step 4: On Sign in automatically screen, put in Username, Password, Confirm Password, then click OK.

sign in

Step 5: Must click this OK.

click ok

Restart computer to logon Windows 8.1, you don't need to enter a password any more.

Guide 3: Remove Windows 8.1 logon password by shortcut

Step 1: Press shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Delete, click Change a password.

click change

Step 2: Type in Username and Old password, leave New password and Confirm password empty. Click arrow.

type in

Step 3: Your password has been changed, click OK.

ok

Guide 4: Bypass Windows 8.1 password with a Windows Installation USB drive

If you have forgotten your Windows 8.1 logon password and you still not access to Windows system, you might use this method to active computer's Administrator account to logon without password, or use this method to remove Windows password and reset Windows password.

Step 1: Firstly, create a bootable Windows 8.1 Installation USB drive. Please refer to how to create a bootable Windows Installation USB drive.

Step 2: Connect the bootable USB drive to the locked computer which you forgot logon password.

Step 3: Boot locked computer from the USB drive. Press PC Power key then quickly press the key to open boot device selection menu. Such as F12/F11/F10/F9/ESC.

Step 4: Under the Boot Menu, select the option which will boot PC from the USB drive. Press Enter.

boot menu

Step 5: When the PC boot to Windows Setup screen, press Shift + F10 to open command prompt. (Depend on PC type, If the PC is Lenovo ThinkPad, you have to press Shift+Fn+F10.)

windows setup

cmd prompt

Step 6: On the command prompt screen, get into system drive and system 32 file, change related file name with command. The words with red underlines are typed in manually. Please do as steps.

Type in "c:", press Enter key.

Type in "cd windows\system32", press Enter.

Type in "ren utilman.exe tilman.exe.bak", press Enter.

Type in "ren cmd.exe utilman.exe", press Enter.

Type in "wpeutil reboot", press Enter to boot to Windows logon screen.

change file name

Step 7: Click Easy of Access icon to open the command prompt(utilman.exe).

click icon

Step 8: On the command prompt screen, type in "net user Administrator /active:yes", press Enter.

active

Close the Command prompt.

Step 9: Now your locked computer's Administrator account is activated. Restart the computer, click Administrator to logon Windows without password.

administrator

If you want to bypass Windows logon password by remove the password, just type in (net user ***** "").

If you want to reset Windows logon password you can type in (net user ***** 123456), *****means your username, 123456 is a new password you set to your Windows. Just give an example.

Yes, we can use the above method to bypass Windows 8.1 admin password too.

Attention:

Do remember to rename the related file name with command prompt! Otherwise the PC command prompt will not work normally. Please refer to step 1 ~ step 5.

Connect the bootable USB drive to PC. Press PC Power key then quickly press key F12 to open boot device selection menu.

Under the Boot Menu, select the option which will boot PC from the USB drive. Press Enter.

When the PC boot to Windows Setup screen, press Shift + F10 to open command prompt.

Just type in the command like picture show.

rename

Close the command screen, pess Esc to exit, take out USB drive.

Guide 5: Reset Windows 8.1 password to blank with a bootable USB drive

Once people forget about their PC sign in password, they usually will try all best to find solutions to get back the forgotten password or try to bypass Windows sign in password. That is good. No need to reinstall Windows to avoid losing important data on the PC.

Using the method of guide 5, we don't need to run the risk of losing any files and data, and no need to change any other things of your PC, except resetting the Windows sign in password to a blank.

For saving time and energy, it is suggested an easier way to bypass Windows password. Cocosenor team has been doing this software for years. Windows Password Tuner can solve your problem in minutes. With high reliability and practicability, it is worth to have a try and keep one.

Step 1: Prepare a blank USB disk with at least 1GB space. (because all data on it will be delete)

Step 2: Download and install Windows Password Tuner on another available PC which is connected to internet.

Step 3: Create a bootable USB drive.

Open Cocosenor Windows Password Tuner.

Insert the blank USB disk into your available PC.

On the Password Tuner screen, click USB device, choose your USB disk, click Begin burning, click Yes to format the USB drive.

When it prompt burning successfully, click OK. In this way a bootable USB drive is created. Eject the bootable USB drive.

usb device

click burning

click yes

click ok

Step 4: Boot the locked PC from the bootable USB drive.

Insert the bootable USB drive into PC which the sign in password has been forgotten. Press Power key to start the PC, then quickly press F12 to open Boot Menu, choose the USB drive, press Enter key to boot PC from your USB drive.

boot menu

Step 5: Select a Windows option, select a User account, click Reset Password, click Yes when it prompts to ask Do you want to set this user password to blank.

select and reset

Step 6: Click Reboot to restart your PC. (Before clicking on Reboot, please eject the USB drive, or it will boot to the Windows Password Tuner window again. )

restart

Click Yes when it prompt Do you want to restart now.

Now you can sign in Windows 8.1 without password.

To bypass administrator password in Windows 8.1, to bypass local user or Microsoft account password in Windows 8.1, we can try guide 5 which will settle issue easily.

Thanks for reading.

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