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1. Apple Password Not Working

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Resetting Windows password may violate privacy and can be used at user's own responsibility. Parallels Support team will not apply the below instructions at any circumstances.

Symptoms

• I cannot login to Windows virtual machine and I want to reset local user account password.

Parallels desktop 10 for mac. NOTE: if you need to reset password for Microsoft account, please refer to this page: Forgotten password and other sign-in problems

Cause

Windows login password misconfiguration.

NOTE: the instructions below are applicable to the Pro Edition of Parallels Desktop for Mac only. If you are using Parallels Desktop Home edition please visit KB117557

To learn more about the differences between the editions please refer to this article: What is the difference between Home and Pro Edition of Parallels Desktop for Mac?

Resolution

1. Start your virtual machine;
2. Open Terminal application (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal);

3. Copy the following command, paste it into Terminal window and press Return:

   The output should look similar to the following:

4. Copy and paste the following command into Terminal window and add space:

5. Copy the UUID from the output of the step 3. (3e21f02b-9d52-4ebe-a079-675dc822d723 in the example) and paste it at the end of the 'prlctl exec' command (do not forget that there should be a space between 'exec' and UUID number), then add space, type the following:

   So now you will have something similar to this:

6. Press Return.

   You will see output similar to this:

   So in our example the user name is 'parallels'

7. Now type in the Terminal:

   copy-paste the UUID number from step 3 again, add space and then type

   Now you will have something like:

8. Add username (your actual Windows user account name retrieved at step 6), colon, and a new password (do not add space between username, colon and password). Please see the example below:

9. Press Return. You should see the following:

Apple Password Not Working

You can now login to your Windows user account using the specified password.