What Should You Before or After Forgot Windows Password?
Before you forgot Windows password, you should prepare a password reset disk so that you can recover the Windows password in case you forget the login password. So, how to create Windows password reset disk? The turorial depend on the OS. Take Windows 7 for example:
- Click on Start and then Control Panel in Windows 7.
- Click on the User Accounts and Family Safety link.Note: If you're viewing the Large icons or Small icons view of Control Panel, you won't see this link. Simply double-click on the User Accounts icon and proceed to Step 4.
- Click on the User Accounts link.Important: Before you proceed, make sure have some kind of portable media to create a password reset disk on. This means that you will need a flash drive or a floppy disk drive and blank floppy disk.You will not be able to create a Windows 7 password reset disk on a CD, DVD, or external hard drive.
- In the task pane on the left, click the Create a password reset disk link.Note: Did you get a No Drive warning message? If so, you do not have a floppy disk or USB flash drive connected. You'll need to do this before continuing.
- When the Forgotten Password Wizard window appears, click Next
- In the I want to create a password key disk in the following drive: drop down box, choose the portable media drive to create a Windows 7 password reset disk on.Click Next to continue.
- With the disk or other media still in the drive, enter your current account password in the text box and click Next.
- Windows 7 will now create the password reset disk on your chosen media.When the progress indicator shows 100% complete, click Next and then click Finish in the next window.
- You can now remove the flash drive or floppy disk from your computer.Label the disk Password Reset and store it in a safe place.
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Before you locked the computer, you also should create another admin account wiht all the Administrator's rights! Because you can use the alternate account to recover the Windows login password. Often many users will leave the administrator account alone and/or have other accounts with administrator rights. If you're not logging into the computer as administrator or have other accounts follow the below steps to reset your other accounts password. Reboot the computer into Safe Mode. Additional information about getting into Safe When logging into Safe Mode you should be prompted with an option to what account you wish to use. Select the Administrator account. If prompted for a password try simply pressing Enter on the keyboard for no password. If this does not work, try other passwords you may have used. If you're unable to log into the Administrator account skip to the next suggestion. Once you've logged into the Administrator account open Control Panel and User Accounts. In User Accounts select the account you wish to change the password for, click change password and then enter the new password or click remove the password to remove the password from the account.
After you forgot Windows password. You can use the above two method to recover the admin password. However, not everyone have the habit to take precautions before the Administrator password is forgotten! Fortunately, Password Recovery Provider offers some solutions to avoid reinstalling or data loss! Followings are the steps to create Windows password reset CD with Windows Password Unlocker,
1. Log in another computer linked to Internet
2.Free Download Windows Password Unlocker.ISO file at the Official Site of Password Unlocker. The download pack contains a Windows Password Unlocker.ISO file and a free Burnner
3.Burn the ISO file to a blanck CD which is called Windows Password Reset CD
4. Insert the Windows Password Reset CD into the locked computer and reboot from the CD drive
5.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.
