@zakaria9960

for those on Virtual Box :
Settings > System > Boot Order > Select "Optical" > Click on (v) so it's below "Hard Disk"

big thanks man, insane how easy it worked, I usually have to look a bunch of vids and forums before I find the solution, big big thank you !

@jonp761

Thank you very much!  I did an in-place upgrade to 2022 (yeah..I know...not ideal) and it reset my Administrator password.  Following your steps allowed me to change it back and get logged back in.  Yay!

@Tnskydivr-ok2zt

I am SO glad this works.  The only question i have is how do you reset the display boot menu to no?  It looks like your on the D drive (your virtual drive?)  Or can you reset that via the command line on the repaired server after resetting the password?  And what is the default timeout does that need to be reset also?

@narendrakumarduvvarapu2983

Thank you so much , your video worked me. I have unlocked my ad administrator account.

@MohamedElsaket

wow, best solution ever after long search. THANK you

@MicheleAngeletti

Thanks. Very good explanation! Thanks from Italy!

@adriankatong3962

Thank you bro this is help me a lot... very useful tutorial thank you from deeply in my heart

@visitdhamala

There is a confusion for me. In my case admin user information is in D drive. So I'm not sure should I perform bcdedit cmd in D drive or in C drive. Rest looks absolutely fine.

@PiggyPH

Thanks Rob, Saved me a lot of time!

@moneyminute5154

awesome. Always learning new things from you.

@ToddHunkins

This was easier than a hot knife through butter.....THANKS!!!!!!

@agmalatestacth

Amazing!  Thank you SOOOO MUCH!

@giancarlosrm

Hi Robert< thanks for the video, is really a good trick. In my case doesn't work because I need to reset the administrator password on the domain, but said the domain cant be contacted or reach. Any idea what should I try next?

@amanberhanu7148

Thanks!

@MrJathese

Thanks , very infomative video .

@machit6705

Thank you! Good job :D

@graham_d

Hi, followed your advice  mate ! thank you, however, the next day when i went to log in...it seems that the credentials weren't working...is there anything we need to do AFTER this process to enable us to get logged in again? like resetting the password again or the such?

@TobiasHeyl

Be quick! That trick (almost) doesn't work anymore in Windows Server 2022 (21H2 (Build 19044,1288)). 
That is because Windows will detect that the Utilman.exe has been renamed and therefore DELETE it. 
Luckily it takes the Operating System a few seconds to notice, so in my case I still had enough time to run this command: net user Administrator "" (right before the command prompt window disappeared magically). I also tried to set it to read-only before with attrib but that didn't prevent the deletion of the file, so as introduced: type in the command as quickly as you can so you still have a chance to at least set the local password back to nothing and continue from there.

@ValentinGheorghiu

very informative video , thank you for sharing

@PhoenixWebTV

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!