How to Retrieve or Reset your Lost Windows Password?
January 4th, 2008
How to Retrieve or Reset your Lost Windows Password?
Here’s an interesting video on how to you can recover your lost Windows password. The video will guide you through few techniques that can help you recover or reset your lost windows password……looks cool like those nonsense hacking movies.
This is a very useful article…But I think to prevent is better than to recover. I mean we better keep our password than to recover after we loose it. Further, besides video I think step by step detail will help reader to understand clearly.
Forgot Your Windows Password?
A lot of people think that after having lost their Windows admin password, they absolutely have to reinstall their OS. Let me tell you something: They are wrong! Here I’m posting a few methods / utilities which can be used to recover Windows password:
1st Method:
The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:
Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ++
keys twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.
Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.
2th Method:
There are many 3rd party utilities which claim to recover forgotten Windows password:
Windows Password Recovery Tool Service: windowspasswordsrecovery.com
WWindows Password Recovery Tool is a program that works instantly to remove any lost or forgotten password. Simply boot your PC from the supplied Boot CD, and get access to forgotten Windows and administrator passwords in just seconds. Their method is so much faster/easier, and works great!
http://windowspasswordsrecovery.com
Long time ago , I was confronted with the password problem. Finally , my friend Jane introduce the Windows password Reset.It helps me access windows. http://www.resetwindowspassword.com
I have downloaded windows password key 8.0. It is a very quick and useful utility for resetting passwords. It not only supports XP, 2000, and NT, I have personally tested it with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. It works perfectly to reset any local user account to a blank password.
Just an easy to use bootable CD/DVD . It can also be used on a USB Flash Drive. http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/
I just found a great blog–free windows password recovery methods.
Those all are free and very helpful!
Free trial Windows Password Recovery Tool—Windows Password Unlocker is highly recommended
1.Download Windows Password Unlocker from Password Unlocker Official site.
2.Decompress the Windows password unlocker and note that there is an .ISO image file. Burn the image file onto an blank CD with the burner freely supported by Password Unlocker.
3.Insert the newly created CD into the locked computer and re-boot it from the CD drive.
4.After launched the CD, a window pop up with all your account names(if you have several accounts) select one of the accounts that you have forgotten its password to reset it. Just one press, you have removed the password.
as far as i know,there are two methods
1.go into safe mode (F8 at logo when booting up) and enter as administrator and then go to accounts and change the password
2.use software to reset windows password,i found the windows password unlocker is convenient.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=windows+password+unlocker&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
lost windows password ? you can go into safe mode (F8 when booting up) to reset windows password when you forgot user account password,but if you forgot administrator password ,there is no way to change administrator password when you forgot it,you must use software to reset administrator password .my favorite is windows login recovery.
You can use the windows password recovery tool “Any Windows Password Recovery 3.0 ” to help reset windows password to blank,it need not to reformat and reinstall windows OS,then with no data losing.Its easy.
The reference link to windows password recovery soft: http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/download.html
It’s a sickening,powerless feeling to be locked out of your own computer.
As a system administrator,I’ve tried a couple of these utilities through the years and my favorite is the windows password key 8.0.This utility is used to reset password of any windows versions.
http://sn.im/xd5sa
A few days ago, I had met the headache things that I had forgotten Windows login password. The login screen rejected my passwords.
I was frustrated because there was very important data on my disk and I couldn’t reinstall the OS. …………. However, I fortunately got to know the Reset Windows Password 1.3, which is a professional windows password recovery tool for us to reset windows 7 password instantly yet no data loss.