Have you forgotten your password to access Windows 10? This is what you have to do to reset it

In some situation you may have faced a problem that has put your blood pressure on the ropes: when you turned on your PC, memory played a trick on you and you forgot the password to access your account of Windows 10. Your data, your files, your entire digital life is there, but you can't access it

Until Windows 7, getting back to normal and recovering the password was something that depended solely and exclusively on us and in fact we saw in a tutorial how to regain access to our PC.However, with the arrival of the new versions of the Microsoft operating system, everything changed. Now, if you forget your password in Windows 10, these are the steps you must follow to restore it

No third-party applications

To regain access, in this tutorial we are going to forget about third-party applications and programs that claim to offer help. We are going to use the options that Windows 10 already offers, in an integrated way. And it is that resetting the password in Windows 10 is very simple if we have linked the PC to a Microsoft accountsince the data is in the cloud and you just have to follow these steps to get access again.

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Everything starts at the login screen, the point at which we get stuck. If we look closely, under the space to enter the password we will see the option Login OptionsBy pressing we will see that it offers two access possibilities: either using a PIN or with a password. But of course, memory has played a trick on us and we cannot make use of any of these options."

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In this case we must look at the option I forgot my password or I forgot my PINthat appears under the text box in which we should have written the password. From there, a process is started to recover access to the PC."

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The system will then ask us for the email address of the Microsoft account that we have linked to our PC with Windows 10. We must enter the account with which we have linked Windows 10 and once written we click on the Continue button."

The recovery system continues with an extra measure of security and asks us to confirm that we are who we say we are, something we can carry carried out by means of two methods: either by using a login application or by sending a key to the secondary email that we have configured in the Microsoft account, this being the method that I have used as it is more practical.

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Write the email address in the box and click on Send code. At this point we have to have another PC, tablet or mobile to access the email in question, as we remember that we do not have access to the PC."

We will receive in the indicated email a security code, which we must use to confirm the identity on the computer.To do this we write it in the corresponding box on the computer screen to which until now we do not have access.

Once confirmed and when the system determines that we really are who we say we are, it asks us to set a new password for the Microsoft account , which must be new, that we have never used it. It is the one that will not give access to the PC and also to all Microsoft services associated with the account.

From that point, the password reset in Windows 10 will have become effective and with that new password we will have access to our computer but also to the Microsoft account that we have linked.