Windows 10: Changing user at startup

I attempted to login as Administrator unsuccessfully. I did a hard reboot but no am automatically logged as Administrator, unsuccessfully, of course.

If I see alternate users, it flashes quickly.

How can return to my normal user login?

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Changing user account at startup

I've been running Windows 10 for some time and have the most recent version.

Recently, I attempted to log into my Administrator account but my log in was never completed due to an incorrect password..

When I rebooted, my PC tries to auto log in to my Administrator account with my apparently incorrect password; the log in process never succeeds and simply goes on and on.

I wish to switch the login to my User acccount, but never am given the option to switch users.

At times, I see the other user accounts listed, but they disappear before I can select an alternate User account.

I've tried holding down the shift button when the log in screen appears, but without success.

Two questions:

How do I bypass the auto login of my Administrator account

And once I get back into my User Account, how do I change the Administrator password.

thanks

 

Changing user account at startup

Did you take some steps to make it automatically login? That's available but it's not default and you usually have to make very specific changes to make it do that.

But unfortunately anything I could suggest would require that you login first, so we may be at a point where you need to use recovery mode (such as by booting up by USB stick or CD disc), possibly even a factory reset.

 

Welcome to TenForums @adam1951

Windows automatically tries to log you in at boot as the last user that was signed in. If that user has a password it stops at the password prompt where you'd have a chance to choose another user to sign in as. If (like Administrator) it has no password it goes straight in.

All you have to do is sign out from Administrator. Then you can sign back in using another account. That will then become the account that Windows will offer for you to sign in to at next boot.

*Arrow Sign out of Windows 10

 

But the Administrator login never completes