How to Unlock a Dell Inspiron Laptop Without the Password?

Lost the password to your Dell Inspiron laptop and find yourself unable to access it? Because of this issue, you could feel a lot of frustration, particularly if you have an important task that requires you to utilise your Dell laptop. You may wish to restore your Dell laptop to its factory settings, but you know doing so would result in the loss of some data; what should you do? I will now demonstrate two effective methods for unlocking your Dell laptop in the event that you have lost the associated password.

Method 1: Unlock your Dell Inspiron laptop with installation disk

If you are unable to access your Dell laptop because you have forgotten the password, you should search for it if you have a Windows Setup DVD that corresponds to it. Do not be alarmed; we are not going to request that you reinstall the system using the setup CD. Please refer to the procedures below in order to unlock the password on your Dell laptop using the setup CD.

Step 1: Boot your Dell laptop from the Windows setup disk

Put the Setup CD into your Dell laptop to begin the installation process.

• While your Dell laptop is starting up or restarting, keep pressing the F12 key immediately and frequently until the Boot Menu box displays.
• After selecting CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive with the Up/Down key, hit the Enter key to continue. (Select the USB Storage Device option if you want to boot from a USB drive.)

Step 2: Replace the “magnify.exe” with “cmd.exe”

The instructions are the same whether you’re using a Dell laptop running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, or Windows 10. Simply proceed in the order shown below.

• When the screen for installing Windows appears, press “Shift + F10” to bring up the window for the command prompt.

•  Run the following command to replace “magnify.exe” with “cmd.exe”:

c:
cd windows\system32
ren magnify.exe magnify1.exe
ren cmd.exe magnify.exe

• After you have completed the above command, remove the installation disk from your Dell laptop, enter “wpeutil reboot,” and then hit the Enter key to begin the restart process.

Step 3: Remove your Dell Inspiron laptop password with command

• After your laptop has successfully booted into the Windows login screen for the second time, select the button labeled “Ease of Access.”

• Choose the option “Make objects on the screen bigger (Magnifier),” and then click the OK button after making your selection.

You will find the Command Prompt window spring up. Try not to be astonished about this, since you have supplanted the “magnify.exe” with the “cmd.exe” with the order above.

• Eliminate your Dell PC secret word with the accompanying order: net client coco “”.

“coco” is the client account name of mine, make sure to change it to yours.

• Restart your PC once more. When go to the logon screen, click on your client account, you will find your Dell PC opened without entering secret word.
• Once more, finally, make sure to boot your PC from the arrangement circle, and change back the “magnify.exe” with “cmd.exe” utilizing the accompanying order:

ren magnify.exe cmd.exe
ren magnify1.exe magnify.exe

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