How To Change Administrator On Dell Laptop



Just because of Windows 10 login password forgot, I am locked out of my Dell XPS 15 laptop. I know Windows system reinstallation can help me to remove forgotten password and unlock locked laptop. But I don’t want to lose important data saved on the laptop at the same time. Is there any way that can unlock my Dell XPS Windows 10 laptop and do no damage to data on my laptop?

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Surely there must have been many ways that can unlock a locked computer. But you should have to choose one effective for your locked Dell XPS laptop. The following four ways are what I know that can unlock all Windows 10 computers effectively. They would also work for your Dell XPS 15 laptop.

Way 1: Unlock Dell XPS laptop by an enabled built-in administrator

The built-in administrator is created by default with the Windows system installation. But it is disabled unless you enable it by yourself. If it is enabled, you will see an account called Administrator on the left-bottom side of Windows 10 login screen. It is just the built-in administrator we say that can login Windows 10 Dell XPS 15 laptop without password.

Just select it on login screen after you forgot Dell XPS laptop local account login password, and click Sign in button. You will easily unlock your locked Dell XPS 15 laptop.

How to enable a built-in administrator when your laptop is accessible?

  1. Run command prompt as administrator.
  2. Type command net user administrator /active: yes and press Enter to enable built-in administrator.

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Note: If you cannot find the built-in administrator on the login screen, you can create a new administrator without login or following other ways below to get help.

Way 2: Bypass forgotten Dell laptop password to login in with iSunshare Windows Password Genius

To unlock the Dell XPS laptop when password forgot, you can use iSunshare Windows Password Genius to bypass login password and sign in to Dell laptop. iSunshare Windows Password Genius is designed to remove Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP forgotten local and domain password for both local and Microsoft accounts. There is no data loss during the unlocking process.

How can it remove your dell laptop windows 10 forgotten password and unlock locked dell XPS laptop? Just see the steps below.

Step 1: Get Windows Password Genius Advanced and burn a password reset disk.

  1. Install and run Windows Password Genius Advanced on another available computer, no matter which system is installed.
  2. Insert bootable USB flash drive and choose media type USB device on the program.
  3. Select the inserted USB device and click the button Begin burning to format and burn password reset disk into it. Few seconds later, you will successfully get a Windows password reset disk when you see a message “Successfully burning” popping up.

Step 2: Remove Dell XPS laptop forgotten Windows 10 password with disk.

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  1. Plug USB reset disk into locked Dell XPS laptop.
  2. Start the locked laptop and boot it from USB drive.
  3. When Windows Password Genius Advanced runs on the locked laptop and reloads the system information and all local user accounts, select the login account you forgot password and tap on Reset Password button. Then the login account password will be removed after you click the Yes button on the pop-up dialog.

Step 3: Unlock locked Dell XPS laptop.

Click Reboot button now on Windows Password Genius Advanced to restart the locked Dell XPS laptop. And remember to exit the USB drive in time from the laptop. Otherwise, your laptop will boot from USB reset disk again.

On Dell laptop login screen, select the account you just remove password with password reset disk. And you can sign in the locked dell laptop without entering any password.

Way 3: Unlock Dell XPS password by resetting sign in password via Password Reset Wizard

Surely if you have created a password reset disk for dell laptop login user, now you can plug this reset disk into dell laptop when it is locked because of password forgot. And reset dell XPS laptop Windows 10 password with disk.

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1. Click the Reset password button after you typed the wrong password to sign in the dell XPS laptop.

2. On pop-up Password Reset Wizard, click the Next button.

3. Insert password reset disk into locked Dell XPS laptop and select it on Password Reset Wizard dialog.

4. Confirm local account and reset a new password for it.

5. Click Finish at last to finish dell XPS laptop forgotten password reset.

6. Exit password reset disk and sign in dell XPS laptop with a local account and its new password.

Way 4: Unlock Dell XPS password by resetting Microsoft account password online

If dell laptop login account is not a local user, but a Microsoft account, you can reset or change forgotten Microsoft account password online, so you can sign in dell Windows 10 laptop with Microsoft account then.

1. Open Microsoft account password reset page. (https://account.live.com/password/reset)

2. Choose the reason why you cannot sign in with Microsoft account, such as “I forgot my password”. Click Next.

3. Confirm your Microsoft account and type security characters. Click Next.


4. Choose a way to get the security code to verify your identity. For example, type your email account and click Send code button.

5. Check the inbox of email account you typed above and copy security code to paste on Microsoft account password reset page. Click Next.

6. Reset Microsoft account password. Enter new password twice for your Microsoft account and click Next.

7. When you see your Microsoft account password has been changed successfully, click the Next button on Microsoft account password reset page to finish.

After that, you can sign into your Dell Windows 10 laptop with the Microsoft account and new password.

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The process of deleting user account is relatively easy. But if you don't know administrator password and there is no another available admin account on your Windows PC, how can you easily delete the administrator account you don't need anymore?

It is really a trouble. As we know, only an account with administrative privileges could delete a user account that is not hidden, and it cannot delete itself. So when you decide to delete the administrator account without password on Windows PC, another admin account is necessary.

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For all Windows PC users, you have two options to make another admin account available.

Option 1: Promote exiting standard user to administrator

In case you have only available standard user in Windows computer, you can change it to administrator to get new admin account in computer. But you should know it can be done only after you can log on to Windows with an admin account. So you should access computer with administrator account you want to delete before promoting standard user to administrator.

Step 1: Sign in Windows PC with administrator account you want to delete.

In order to sign in Windows PC with administrator account you don't know password, please find its password reset disk or a Windows password recovery tool, such as Windows Password Genius to recover forgotten password. Then log into PC with it.

Step 2: After computer access, begin to promote the standard user to administrator.

Step 3: Log out of administrator account you plan to delete, and sign in with new administrator you just made.

Step 4: Delete administrator account on Windows computer with admin rights.

Compared to above steps, option 2 will look more advisable to solve the same problem that how to get admin account without password.

Option 2: Create new admin account without password

To create a new user account with administrative privileges, you just need the third-party tool, iSunshare Windows Password Genius, which is aimed at creating new admin account and resetting forgotten user password for locked computer.

Step 1: Create a bootable USB with Windows Password Genius.

Borrow a Windows PC or laptop from others and run iSunshare Windows Password Genius Standard/Professional/Advanced/Raid on it. About how to choose proper edition of the software, please make sure which Windows operational system runs on your PC. Then burn Windows Password Genius into a writable USB flash drive.

Step 2: Create a new user with administrative privileges.

Get the bootable USB you burned and connect it to your Windows PC. Power on PC and start it from USB drive. Then on the PC, you will see Windows Password Genius runs and provides the option Add User for you to create new admin account. Click the option and type a user name and password on pop-up dialog. Then click OK and the user with administrative privileges will be added to your Windows PC.

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After having admin account in hand, please follow the last but most important part to delete administrator account you don't need on your Windows PC.

Delete administrator account on Windows 7/8/10 PC or laptop

Step 1: Restart your Windows PC by clicking Reboot on Windows Password Genius and exiting bootable USB.

Step 2: Sign in Windows PC with new admin account.

Before starting to delete administrator account, please make sure whether you might want to back up their files and settings. Each user's account settings and data are in the C:Users folder under their user name. Copy the folders to external hard disk or other partitions of hard drive and you would back up. This is especially important for Windows 8 and 10, which will not prompt you to keep files while you delete the account. But Windows 7 will if you delete the account in Control Panel. Now we will introduce another common way 'command line' for you to delete administrator account on all Windows 7, 8, 10 PC. So it is better to back up administrator account settings and data before account deletion.

Step 3: Run Command Prompt as administrator.

Windows 7: Click Start and search cmd.exe in box and right-click it to run as administrator.

Windows 8/10:
Press Win + X and choose Command Prompt (Admin) in pop-up quick menu. Click Yes to run as administrator.

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Step 4: Delete administrator account with command.

Type the command 'net user administrator /Delete' and press Enter. Then the administrator account you typed will be deleted from your Windows PC.

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