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Resetting Windows password may violate privacy and should be done on user's own responsibility. Parallels Support team will not apply the below instructions at any circumstances.

NOTE: If you are using Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition, please refer to the KB114193.

Symptoms

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  • I cannot login to Windows virtual machine and I want to reset local user account password.

NOTE: if you need to reset password for Microsoft account, please refer to this page: Forgotten password and other sign-in problems.

Cause

Windows login password misconfiguration.

Workaround

NOTE: before proceeding with the steps below we highly recommend you to take snapshot of your virtual machine.

Step 1. Get access to Command Prompt on Windows login

Option 1

  1. Boot from Windows 8 or Windows 10 (depending on the Windows version you have installed) installation disk. Proceed to Troubleshoot > Advanced options > cmd, and execute the below command in Command Prompt:

    The output will show information about current Windows installation. Find the string with 'partition=' and check the device letter.

  2. Execute in Command Prompt:

Option 2

Step 1. Replace Utilman.exe

  1. Shutdown your virtual machine. Locate virtual machine's file in Finder.

  2. Right-click on the virtual machine's file -> Show Package Contents.

  3. Open virtual machine's hard disk using Parallels Mounter

  4. Locate mounted virtual disk in Finder. Navigate to *C:WindowsSystem32*.
  5. Rename Utilman.exe file to Utilman.original.exe
  6. Rename cmd.exe to Utilman.exe
  7. Unmount virtual disk from Finder.

Step 2. Reset Windows user account password

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  1. Boot to Windows. On the login screen click on Ease of Access button to open Command Prompt.

  2. Check available user accounts by executing the command:

  3. Choose a user for whom you want to change password. Execute the following command:

    where username: desired username, and newpassword: new password for your user account.

  4. Login to Windows using new password.

Step 3. Reverting changes to Windows system files

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  1. Once you logged in to Windows successfully, please go to C:WindowsSystem32and rename Utilman.exe back to cmd.exe, and Utilman.original.exe back to Utilman.exe

  2. Remove the snapshot.