Windows – How to reset local user password to random one

Posted by Thomas | Posted in Command line, Windows 2003, Windows XP | Posted on 22-06-2009

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This post will show you how to randomly reset local user password on you Windows machine using command line.

Lets say we have local user named “testuser” and we want randomly reset its password.

For this press Start>Run, type CMD and press “OK” .

In command line type:

net user testuser /random

random_password

Press “Enter”.

Password will be reseted and it will be shown to you after you pressed “Enter” button.

The output will be similar to:

random_password2

Good job!

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