Windows 10: How to set new password on my local account

Something in Windows 10 changed my local account password, locking me out.
I managed to logon with my "Windows Account" (I have only vague ideas what this is) and I've saved as many of my EFS encrypted files as I can remember.

What I can't do is find a way to reset the password to my local account. I have three local accounts, and they are all Administrators. But no matter who I logon as, I can't find the option to set my local account (steve) password.

When I go through the process as it was on Windows 7, I get to the point where I should be able to change steve's password, but it's not one of the choices.

Can I get my userid and password back without having to delete the account and re-creating it?

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Windows 10 Password Reset Incomplete

I upgraded my new laptop to Windows 10 and set up my account with my msn account. I wanted to use a different login for the laptop (not my email password) and was switching the login to local setting the desired password. In this process I was logged
off, now neither password works (incorrect password) and there are no other accounts set up on the system. How can I reset or get access to an admin account?

 

stop auto login to my email account and microsoft account on my new laptop

Each user ID has a separate password. You can define them to be the same, but they are still separate.

What you want to do is switch from a "Microsoft" account, an email account for login, to a "local" account.

https://www.lifewire.com/creating-local-account...

With local accounts you can set them to have no password.

https://www.infopackets.com/news/9720/how-remov...

 

TenForums Tutorial:
How to Reset Password of Local Account or Microsoft Account in Windows 10

 

I expected trouble, and I wasn't disappointed.

I chose option two: Reset password of any local account in Netplwiz
I start netplwiz and there is no "Steve" user name in the list.

So, assuming there is no local user "Steve", I try to add one. It gets named "Steve_2". I'll bet that the user "steve.j.swift@gmail.com" has got user name Steve. I'll bet that I'm right royally stuffed.

I'm on the brink of rolling back from Windows 10 to Windows 7, but I'm betting that would make this mess I'm in even worse...