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Hello, I've been having an issue the past few hours and I cannot figure out how to fix it, Windows keeps asking me for a password and saying my old one is expired. I have been looking for answers on the internet and they all say that the password that windows is asking for is my Microsoft account password but it keeps saying that it's wrong even though I have reset it and used a different one since I'm still logged in on my phone. I made sure to put the right password in when logged in on my phone and that worked but when I boot up my pc and put that same password in it says it's wrong, please if anybody could help me I'm extremely confused.
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This is not working for me beacuse I am not able to go past the first screen which asks for the log in details this a new laptop that I have never used so there is no way I set the password in the first place
If you are at a prompt that has two password fields and a right-pointing arrow, enter whatever you want for a password in both fields (i.e. same thing in both fields) and then click the right-pointing arrow. Hope this helps.
Dozens of people I know are all having this issue. ... Why is this? Why is Windows having more problems than it did in 1998? Who is even working here causing all of these issues? It's like Microsoft has zero employees that have any clue what they are doing.
Not everything is a catastrophe.
Launch Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc - as an Administrator and make the change. This works for me on my Windows 10 computer and also on my Windows 11 computer.
This is not working for me beacuse I am not able to go past the first screen which asks for the log in details this a new laptop that I have never used so there is no way I set the password in the first place
I'm happy that a problem I faced and solved can be of help to someone somewhere I don't know. 2025 here we go!
This is work for me too, crazy!!
SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME
Login your Microsoft in another PC.
Follow the instructions or Microsoft reset disk using a flash drive.
When the flash drive is prepared, plug into your PC, follow the steps,
When promoted for password in the wizard screen click No.
Follow the next stages and the password will be reset
