Reset Windows 10 local password with Kali

Spyx · March 21, 2021

If you ever need to reset windows password and you have physical access to HW/Vm you can do it with Kali live image.

First step si to boot Live Kali image. If disk/partition is not mounted automatically you can do it with mount command

Them move to Windows/system32/config folder

Right click in that folder and open in terminal

List all available local users

chntpw -l SAM

Choose user you can to clear password

chntpw -u <username> SAM

There are multiple options and i want to clear administrator password as i forgot it :)

Last option is to quit and save changes

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