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=== System Restore back to Local Account ===If you are lucky then you have a restore point from before you accidentally changed yourself over to a Windows Live account. Restore your computer to that point before the change to regain your previous local user account. In many cases this is simply the default account "Owner" From the Windows login screen: hold down shift key while clicking on the power icon in lower right corner. Keep holding down shift key and click on restart. See "Command Prompt, System Restore, and other Startup Settings at Boot w/o Boot Disk" on the [[Windows 10 Tips & Tricks]] page.== No Login Password Required ===== Password Recovery Method #2 === If you are locked out of your Windows 10 machine and are using a Windows Live account or a regular system account, this procedure will work. It has been verified. It requires no boot media. It will allow you to enable the local administrator account, change the Windows Live account to a local account, and gain administrator access to the machine using the local administrator account. The caveat to this method is that you are required to change your Microsoft Live account back to a local account, even though you will be gaining access to the computer via the local administrator account. As long as one user account is configured to be a Microsoft Live account, the other login options are hidden at the login screen.Also known as "Automatic Account Login." We will use the "netplwiz" command to accomplish this. # Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog box, type "netplwiz"# Select the User Name of the Microsoft account or local account that you want to have Windows automatically sign in to at startup.# Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer box# Enter the password of the selected local account or Microsoft account twice and click OK. If a selected local account does not have a password created for it, then leave the password fields empty. A Microsoft Live account will always have a password.== Available Command Prompt at Windows Login Screen ==Summary of procedure:# Use the trick: "Command Prompt, System Restore, and other Startup Settings at Boot w/o Boot Disk"# from the command prompt execute the trick: "Available Command Prompt at Windows Login Screen"# after rebooting, and opening this command prompt, we will utilize a couple commands to a) enable the local administrator account and set a password for it, and b) change any Windows Live accounts to a local account.This is a hack that makes it so the "Ease of Access" icon in the bottom right of the login screen opens a command shell rather than the accessibility menu. This makes it so a command prompt can be available even before a user authenticates into windows.The result is a Windows login screen with the option to login as administrator. Once you are logged in as administrator you can modify any other user account you like, or even (if you're a fool) change the local account back to a Windows Live account. But don't do that until you figure out how to properly set a Windows Live account password. Keep in mind that there is a synchronization process between Microsoft and your PC when you use a Windows Live account. You might find your password being set back to whatever it was when you were locked out.To accomplish this we will rename or delete the file "utilman.exe" which is located:Now to elaborate on the process... \windows\system32\utilman.exeThen we will make a copy of the command shell "cmd.exe" and call it utilman.exe placing it in the same path. cd \windows\system32 move utilman.exe utilman.bak copy cmd.exe utilman.exe''I will come back to this when I get time.''As I am logged in as the local administrator I use netplwiz and note that I am unable to change the password on my normal user account even though it is no longer a Windows Live account. == Related ==* [[Windows 10 Tips & Tricks]]* [[Windows 10 Windows Login Restore and Password Recovery]]* [[Windows 10 Troubleshooting]]