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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

Press “Enter”.

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

The output will be similar to:

Good job!

In this post you`ll see how to change administrative password after new Windows server 2008 Core setup. For this case use net user command:

net user administrator *”

Press Enter and you`ll be prompted to enter new password