How to change windows password from CMD(command prompt)

Suppose you want to change the windows password but forgot the old password then to change new password follow the steps:

Step 1 : Go to start, run then type CMD and right click on it select run as administrator

Step 2 : Now type net user to find all the user account

Step 3 : Once you get the user name type net user and user name to get information about the user and type net user user name and * to change the password.

For example: net user test * 

Step 4 : Now you are done after typing net user user_name * hit enter then it ask for new password the type the password and hit enter again, it will ask to retype the password and hit enter then a message appear “The command completed successfully”.

Enjoy password changed successfully.

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