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# How to recover the Administrator password in Windows

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## How to recover the Administrator password in Windows

Keep reading if you want to learn **how to recover the Administrator password in Windows**, a procedure that applies both to recover the administrator user's password in case you do not remember it, or because the administrator is not available for any reason.

**NOTE:** *Plenit is not responsible for any misuse of this tutorial, since its purpose is to help administrators carry out their work. The objective of this tutorial is to provide possible assistance in migration processes.*

This process must be done properly **from a physical terminal**, or **from a virtual terminal** with access to virtual installation media, since two things are needed:

* **Access to the physical or virtual power buttons** through the hypervisor.
* **Access to physical or virtual drives** to load the CD/DVD or Windows installation ISO.

It is important to say that this recovery medium is valid for client and server devices. On client it works both on older ones like Windows XP and on newer ones like Windows 11. The same happens at server level; it will work with older versions and even with Windows Server 2025, which is the version on which this tutorial has been made.

#### How to recover the Administrator password in Windows

#### Prerequisites or pre-configuration

To successfully complete this tutorial and **recover the Administrator password in Windows**, you will need:

On the one hand, **be registered on the Plenit Platform**and have accessed it with your username and password through the 

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