Resetting a Window 10 password

[Tony D]

I have here a W8.1 machine and can't get into it because it's not recognizing the user's password as being valid. I clicked on the Forgot password button. It gave me a website to go to - https://account.live.com/password/reset.

 

So, using another computer, I went to the site. It emailed a numeric code to the user's email address to verify the user was the one with the account in question. Then I was able to create a new password.

 

Now, back onto the Windows 10 machine, I logged in using the newly created password. My question is - how did the W8.1 machine know about the newly created password? It hadn't been connected to the Internet when we created the new password.

[allheart55 Cindy E]

I've had that happen to me once and I just assumed that the account information was automatically synced.

[anthoynics]

The above method only works on computer that signs in with MS account.

[Tony D]

Yes, but my question is

- how did the W8.1 machine know about the newly created password? It hadn't been connected to the Internet when we created the new password.

[IJAC]

Tony I think they link passwords to the M$ account somehow not sure I could be wrong (just ask my wife).

[Xankeray]

The above method only works on computer that signs in with MS account.

If you use MS, you must know the phone number and email address , MS is invalid if there is an unknown, I think this method is very limited

[Yakkery]

There are a lot of ways to reset password for Windows 10 , getting into your other account to access your computer is one of the best way of them , if the MS account can not help you ,