General Discussion - What should you do when you forgot the password? davidlogin - Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: What should you do when you forgot the password?
If you forgot User account password,It is easy.Just simply log in as the computer administrator, and go to control panel, user accounts. Here you will be able to reset windows password for any of the systems user accounts.
But things get more tricky if you forgot admin password, It’s a sickening,powerless feeling to be locked out of your own computer though this happens more often,everytime we feel so helpless.What should you do in facing this situation.You have tried everything you could reset admin password but failed.
Method 2: Use a password Reset Disk
To use the password Reset Disk to log on to the computer,you can follow these steps/ If your computer is current or former member of the xp, go to “ Windows XP Professional” section and follow the steps.
Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional Restart the computer.In the Windows XP logon screen, click the user name you want to use, and then press Enter.Note: You will receive the following error message:
“Did you forget your password? You can click the “?” Button to see your password hint.Or you can use your password reset disk. Please type your password again. Be sure to use the correct uppercase and lowercase letters.”
Click “Use a windows xp password reset disk.” “Password Reset Wizard” starts. Through the “Password Reset Wizard”, you can create your user account a new password.
In the “Password Reset Wizard” dialog box, click “Next.”The password reset disk into the CD drive, then click “Next.” In the “Type a new password” box, type a new password, and then “re-type the password to confirm” box, type the password again.In the “Type a new password hint” box, type the password prompt, and then click “Next.”Click the “Finish”, then try to log on to Windows XP.
If you can reset your password, and now can successfully log on, you have to solve this problem, and completed all operations. If you still can not log in, please try Method 3.
Method 3:
There are a lot of tools and utilities that can be downloaded and used to recover, retrieve or remove windows 7 password. However, I’ve tried a couple of these utilities through the years and my favorite is the
windows password killer . This utility is used to reset password of any windows versions.
2. Insert the newly created CD/USB to the locked computer.
3. Reboot the locked computer and press’F2′or’Delete’to enter your BIOS setup and then you will see the instruction as following.
Then you need to reboot the computher,Finally you will find your password has been removed.
Now you can regain access your Windows operating system and create a new administrator password. The best thing of using this method is that you shouldn’t lose any data on your computer. Furthermore, If you can’t find a computer which has a CD/DVD writer or the locked computer have no a CD-ROM, You can burn the ISO image file into a USB flash drive and use the USB flash drive to recover Windows administrator password.