Find lost passwords to Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, etc.
Pick from one of several ways to find your lost password in Windows.
Some of these ideas might work for older Windows operating systems as well.
Lifewire
If that doesn’t describe your situation, move on to the next idea.
Not sure if you enter to Windows with a Microsoft account?
If you enter with an email address, then you’re using a Microsoft account.
You’ll know if you do.
You only have to make a password reset disk once.
Just have one of the other users on your box change your lost password for you.
The first account that was set up in Windows is often times set up with administrator access.
