Modern computer systems require the user to create the most resistant to password cracking. Sometimes code words can contain up to forty different letters and characters. As a result, account owners often forget their passwords and lose access to a huge amount of personal information. To avoid such incidents by large information companies  (Microsoft, Google, Yandex, and others) a system was created quick recovery  access to user account.

How to recover a Microsoft account if I forget my password

If you are one hundred percent sure that you enter the password correctly, but access to your account is closed, make sure that uppercase characters are disabled on your computer. This may cause incorrect input. keywordbecause it has a sensitivity to it.

Make sure that the keyboard layout matches the language of which the password is composed. The letters of the Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet, similar to the human eye, are completely different in terms of computer technology.

Re-spell emailPerhaps it was entered incorrectly.
  If all of the above options do not work, then you need to reset the existing code word before restoring your Microsoft account:

1. Go to the support page located on the official Microsoft website.
2. Among all the presented options for possible loss of access to your account, select the "Password forgotten" item.
3. Next, the system will prompt you to enter a third-party virtual mail address that is associated with the page. It is on this email that a short message will be sent with a temporary link to reset forgotten password. You can go to the web address within one hour, after which it will become inactive, and you will have to repeat all the steps first. Also this process  relevant for those who are looking for a way to restore your Microsoft account on your phone.
4. The recovery service provides the ability to use an account number tied to an account. In this case, a free message with a secret code will be sent to your mobile phone, which you must enter in a specially designed field on the access recovery page.

SMS delivery takes a maximum of 2 minutes, and if nothing came to you, send the code again. If you follow all the instructions above, then recovering the password for your Microsoft account will not be difficult even for novice users.

Lost user login

Often account holders forget their nickname. In the Microsoft system, the login is the same email address, it is specified during registration. In this case, sending a short message with a web address to restore access to the email is not possible.

You can find out your lost login using the Skype service. Having opened your page, you will see the login. If you have not approached any of the above methods, how to restore your Microsoft account, write to support to solve the problem.

Similarly, you can find out to see the login using an open account on the Xbox service. Just turn on your game console and check the latest notifications, at the top of each of them your forgotten email will be indicated.

How to recover a Microsoft account after deleting a profile

The user page can be restored within thirty days from the date of account deletion. Further, the action becomes unavailable and all data is deleted from the Microsoft cloud database.

In order to recover your Microsoft account password and access your deleted account, follow these steps:

1. Go to the official portal of the company.
2. Enter your username and password. If you do not remember the password, send secret code  recovery to an attached phone number.
3. After entering the deactivated account, click on the "Activate" button. A profile will become operational only if less than thirty days have passed since the deactivation.

Windows Phone Account Recovery

Details on how to restore your Microsoft account to Windows phoneRead the instructions below:

1. Profile mobile version  Windows operating system family - this is the same account that is used to log in personal ComputerTherefore, to restore access, the steps indicated in the article should be taken.
2. In the event of the loss of the phone, you can restore all data and files, as well as user accounts, you will only need the previously done backup copy. It is done automatically every week by all devices running the Windows Von OS. Log in to the account, having previously restored access to it. Find the menu item " Backup  data ”and follow the instructions. Now you know how to restore your Microsoft account on your phone.

Account Hacked

Hacking an account involves other people or spyware software  in order to send spam and all kinds of malicious programs that steal the personal data of users. If the attacker changed the login information, you can access the profile just like recovering a Microsoft account.

If you suspect that your profile has been hacked, change the password and block access to your account from another location.

Enable two-step identity verification

To protect your profile as much as possible from hacking, connect a two-stage user identification system. This method  Login is that the user must enter their username and password. At the next stage, a short SMS message with an access code will be sent to the phone number. This procedure will be repeated every time you try to enter your account.

Two-phase authentication will improve the degree of protection of personal data and make message encryption more cryptographic.

Administrator Account Password  - This is to protect your data from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Of course, it is important to protect documents if, for example, a computer is in the office and any employee can copy, steal or even delete your data.
  There are times when a user simply forgets the password. The situation is extremely unpleasant, right? And what to do in this case, how to find out the password? Do not demolish the same Windows. Especially if important documents or commemorative photos and videos are stored there.

How to recover a lost Microsoft account password

Typically, when you install Windows 10, a Microsoft account is bound to it. And if you are "lucky" to forget the password for this account, then you can reset it. This is done very simply.

If you do not have an additional device, and therefore the ability to go online to do the following, but you have installation disk  or a flash drive, then add the user using the method described in the last section of this publication. Log on to Windows as this temporary user, and recover the lost password via the Internet using the instructions below.

So let's get started:

If for some reason you do not have access to your inbox, then select "This verification option is not available to me."

After you have entered the code sent to your mailbox, you will be asked to combine all your accounts with one password. Click "Clear" if you agree to the offer or "Cancel" if you do not want to combine your entries.

Note:  when you select the "Clear" button, entered by you password will be applied to all your accounts   Microsoft, this is both skype and office, which you tied to the mailbox specified during registration.

Thus, the password reset procedure was successful, now you can enter the computer using new password.

How to restore access to a computer using the Windows 10 distribution

There is another way to restore access to a computer or laptop that has forgotten the password. The method is not similar to the previous one: it will be necessary to replace the utility " Special abilities"On the Windows 10 lock screen on the command line with administrator rights.

To restore access in the second way, you will need system image. This should be the image of the very system that is installed on the PC, necessarily the same capacity. After you have prepared it, just follow the steps given later in the article.

You can use a disk with an image or a USB drive. If you have a boxed version, just insert your disc into the DVD drive and follow the instructions described below. If not, you can create it by downloading the image from the official site.

By the way, any, even inexperienced user can either, following the simple and understandable prompts of the Windows 10 installer.

Your sequence of actions should be as follows:

Remember that if you do not return utilman.exe by following the instructions in paragraph 13 to its original place, then any user who has access to the PC will be able to change the password and log in to the OS.

How to create a new user if you forget your Microsoft account password

If you have a Microsoft account, you cannot change your password in the previous way. However, you can access the Internet (if you do not have another computer or laptop available) by creating   another user and log in through it. After creating this user, the system will long time  do the tuning and don't be afraid of it. Also, there will be no access to your documents, applications and files, but you can go online and reset the password on the Microsoft website by following the instructions described at the beginning of the article.

Create a new user account:

The following command will help to make the added user an Administrator: net localgroup Administrators Username / add

Do not forget passwords or write down and store them in a safe place, in a notebook or in a special notebook.

As you can see, following the simple tips described in the article, you can easily and quickly reset your account password and restore access to important documents and data. Try it and you will succeed.

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To use the full functionality of Windows 10, you need. This is a universal profile that can be used on any device running Windows 10. As with any system, a login and password are required to enter an account. But what do those users who, for whatever reason, forget their data?

Recover Account

Advice! When entering your account, be sure to check the keyboard layout if CapsLock is enabled or not. Perhaps you are entering data in another language or with a different capitalization.

To restore your account, go to the Microsoft website and select the appropriate item.

If you lose your password

There is an alternative way to enter your profile using a one-time code:

1. Click Sign In Using One-Time Code.
2. Enter your phone or mail linked to your account.
3. Enter the phone number to which you want to get the code.
4. Click "send SMS with code."
5. Then enter the code, and log in to the profile.

The same actions must be done when you forget your password. account  Microsoft on the phone. Use the recovery form from your smartphone and follow the prompts.

If email is lost

If you forgot which email address you used to log in to your account, you can see it in two cases, if:

Otherwise, contact Microsoft Support.

After uninstall

You can recover your Microsoft profile after deletion within 30 days. On the 31st day it is permanently removed. To restore a deleted profile, use the account login form and click the "Activate" button.

When hacked

If you suspect your account has been hacked:

If the password is changed by an attacker, use the “” form and put a marker in front of “My profile is used by third parties”, then follow the prompts.

Increase protection

To increase the security of your account and remove the password login, you can use additional protection. Go to “Security and Privacy” → “Security Settings” and enable additional security features.

2-step verification

Including two-step verification (also called two-step authentication), the profile can only be entered by entering a password and a one-time code that will come to the specified phone number. To enable, click "Configure two-step verification."

Identity Verification Application

Use the dedicated Authenticator app on your smartphone to verify your identity.

To proceed with configuring this feature, click “Install Identity Verification Application”.

Recovery code

Set up and use a special code with which you will gain access to your data. To do this, click "Configure recovery code." Also, you can use all available ways to protect your profile together.

If you still have questions. Describe in detail what the difficulty was, so that we can help.

If you have forgotten your password, you can get Microsoft account recovery instructions by reading this article in its entirety. This will help the special service system "Microsoft Live" - \u200b\u200ba development working in the "online" mode in order to control all devices with a connected MS account.
Several laptops, computers and other gadgets can be connected to the service simultaneously windows system. If the user has forgotten the login information, then communication with these devices can be lost forever.

Microsoft envisioned such an outcome, and so a password and login information recovery system was developed. The main methods will be provided below.

1. Reset password on PC

If your account is only tied to a PC, you can reset all of its settings without restoring the account.
To gain access to your device, you need to download it through the "recovery" and create an additional system user to obtain administrator rights, but from a different account.

Thus, returning access to the OS will not be difficult.

Also, one of the methods is reinstalling the OS, but then the user data will be deleted permanently. Follow the instructions to reset your password and log in:

To install the OS, you need to stock up with the installation disk with the operating system and the installation flash card. Insert the disk or USB flash drive into the required port (drive) and through BIOS, set the required queue order and restart the PC. An updated recovery window will appear.
- After the initial installation window appears, you will need to press Shift + F on the keyboard. In order to call the command line and give the PC some instructions with commands.
- In the CMD window, enter notepad - to call up notepad.

- In the editor window text document  find the toolbar, go to “File” and “Explorer”.

- “” appears on the left My computer", Which will need to go. And then to the system section.

- Close the window of the conductor and pay attention to the window of the KMD line, its commands and actions occurring in the notebook.

- The line “Replace” will appear, to which you will need to answer “Yes” and confirm the action. Turn off the PC, change the boot order on the OS.
- Turn off the PC again. We are waiting for the screen to enter data. We find a special button in the lower left corner.

Will be open again command line.
- Enter net user   Chaser / add,  confirm the action. In this way, you can upgrade and replace the system account.
- Enter the command netplwiz.

- After entering the second command, a window will appear in which you will need to create an additional user of this system.

- In the groups tab, set this entry as administrator.

- Now go to the account replacement and reboot the pc.

- Everything should work. Connect to your account.

2. Recovery through Microsoft service

Go to official page: https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx?mkt\u003den-RU, follow the instructions.
- We indicate the reasons for the impossibility of entering the account:

- Enter the real mail address, continue on.
- You will be prompted to reset the password via mail, or a special code that will come to you on mobile phone  indicated at the time of registration.

If access to the mail was not available, as well as the phone number, then click on the item and fill out the application form, they will call you after a while at the specified number and tell you how to restore access.

3. Problems with MS accounts

If any suspicious activity has appeared on your account, you should change the password immediately. Your payment data is attached to the LC in the form of cards for purchases in the store, so they can use your data and means without your knowledge. We enter the same data recovery page, but select a different reason for contacting:

A link will be sent to the E-mail for password recovery, use it and set a new, complex password.

In order to protect data on the computer from strangers, Microsoft offers users to set a password to enter the account. Most often, the password is set during windows installation  10, and it can be tied to an account microsoft records  or be created locally.

No matter how the password was set, the computer user can forget it. Most often it turns out that in reality a person remembers the password, but enters it with the CAPS LOCK button turned on (or, conversely, turned off) or in a foreign language. If the problem turned out to be not so commonplace, and you really cannot remember the password, you can reset it, and operating system  Windows 10 does this in several ways.

How to reset your Microsoft account password

If the computer user password was tied to a Microsoft account, which allows you to make Windows 10, just reset it and install a new one to gain access to the computer. The Microsoft account password is changed on the official website. You can do this from any computer, tablet, phone, if available on the Internet devices.

Important:   For the new password to be activated on a locked computer, you will need to connect to the Internet on the user selection screen. This can be done via Wi-Fi.

To reset the password for your Microsoft account, do the following:

When the password for the account is changed, you can return to the locked windows screen  10, connect to the Internet and enter a new password to enter the system.

How to reset a Windows 10 password installed locally

If the password for the Windows 10 user account was set locally on the computer and not tied to a Microsoft account, there are two ways to reset it.

Through the command line when booting from the recovery disk

If you have installation windows drive  10 or a flash drive / disk to restore the system, with their help you can easily reset the password for the operating system account. To do this, set the BIOS to boot the computer with this drive, then restart the computer. Instead of standard windows boot  10 the installation environment starts with a suggestion to select a language. Instead of choosing a language, press Windows + F10 to open a command prompt.

Please note: If the key combination does not open the command line, you can do this as follows. In the lower left corner of the installation window with a suggestion to select a language, click "System Restore". Then select the items: “Troubleshooting” - “Advanced Settings” - “Command Prompt”.

Perform the following actions on the command line:

Boot the computer from the main hard driveon which the Windows 10 operating system is installed. On the password entry screen in the lower right corner, click on the "Accessibility" item, and then the command line will open. In it you need to enter and confirm the command:

Net user username new_password

Username  - The Windows 10 username that the password is being reset for. If the name consists of several words, they must be enclosed in quotation marks. If you do not remember the username, you can recognize it by entering the net users command on the command line.

New password  - password that will be used in the future to enter the operating system.

Via built-in administrator account

In Windows 10, there is a built-in administrator account through which you can reset the password. note that this method  relevant only when Professional or Corporate are installed on the computer windows versions 10.

To reset the password through the built-in administrator account you need:

When the above steps are completed, you can start the computer under an account with administrator rights and disable the built-in account that was previously activated.