Windows 10: I changed my password to my admin account on my computer

So I made the mistake of thinking I'd remember my password without writing it down and now I can't sign back into my computer and at this point I'm thinking of just hard resetting my computer but before I do that I was hoping someone here would be able to help.I've tried literally everything that I could find on the internet and my account is also the only one on there so I can't just boot into another one and do something from there, I really don't want to lose all my work stuff.

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admin password?

You can reset the Admin Password using Windows XP repair; See Here for step by step.

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admin password?

my repair windows install keeps failing due to "what is admin password" ?
How do I either find it? It is my computer and Ia am the admin or change it? this is for disk D and It is booting from c...

 

Forgotten admin password.

Sorry but "Admin account" might be a description. Is your answer to 1 that you are signed in to the built-in account with the username Administrator or do you just mean that you are signed in to an account that has admin status [an account that you have made at some stage]?

The account to select in the list is the one that you want to reset the password to. If that is the one you are signed in to then you'll get that To change your password press Alt+Ctrl+Delete message instead [and the existing password is needed in order to do any change].

You need to be signed in to a different admin user account in order to reset the existing one's password. By the way, you will lose all your saved internet sign-in credentials by resetting it.
- You could create a new password-protected, admin-level local user account {steps given in a separate post below} then sign in to it so you could then use netplwiz to reset the original one.

Denis