Forgot Windows 10 Password on HP Laptop, What to Do

“I forgot my HP laptop password on Windows 10 that I just upgraded from Windows 7. I input the password several times, but always got the message 'the password is incorrect'. What should I do?”

Locked out of your HP laptop because of login password forgot? You’ve got solutions here. Some tips and tweaks about HP Windows 10 password reset are covered below.

Reset HP Administrator Password on Windows 10 Using HP Password Reset Disk

The best way to crack a password locked HP computer is to make use of a password reset disc. To create a disk, you can use Windows Password Key. It just needs a few clicks to recover your Windows 10 admin password and other user password for your HP PC.
To start to create a HP password reset disk for Windows 10 and recover password, you should prepare:

A blank CD or USB flash drive
A workable Windows computer.
Download Windows Password Key

When you are ready, start to do as follows:

Step 1: Run Windows Password Key, and insert the CD/USB into the computer.
Step 2: Specify the burning drive and start to burn the .iso file to the CD/USB by clicking “Burn”.

burn

Step 3: After burning, take out the disk and insert it to the password locked HP laptop. Boot your device from this password reset disk.
Step 4: Then you will go to the password reset interface. Select the account for which you want to reset password.

select account and reset password hp win 10

When you finish the process, reboot your HP laptop and you will be able to login to it immediately.

Remove HP BIOS Password on Windows 10

Generally, the simplest way to remove a BIOS password for HP on Windows 10 is to remove the CMOS battery.
You can eject CMOS battery, start computer by pressing the button in the case. And the system will warn you that the BIOS data was cleaned. After that, close the computer and put the battery to the original place, and restart the computer again. You will see the BIOS will return to factory setting. And there is no password required when you log into computer.

Restore HP Laptop to Factory Settings

Certainly, restoring laptop to factory mode could help you unlock locked HP laptop. But your laptop would restore back to factory original settings and lose everything. Therefore, this method is only recommended when:

1. You don’t care all data on your laptop would lose.
2. You are intended to get a new clean Windows system.
3. Your laptop Windows system in installed just now. There is not so many important files saved on it.

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