How do I recover a lost password for Windows

How do I recover a lost password for Windows

Question 1:

hello everyone .My niece recently bought a new laptop, and she decided to use a password to log
on, but now she has forgotten her password and she cannot log on. Is there anyway to work around
this or do we have to have it formatted.
thanks in advance.
From Computing.net by hulkster

Question 2:

How do I recover a lost password for Windows Vista?
I forgot my password and the administrator was the only account on the computer. I built it online
and it came pre-loaded with Vista 64-bit Home Premium so I don't have the boot disk. I've tried
the safe mode thing and I've tried orpcrack, but I still can't get onto my computer! This happened a
while ago so at this point I am TOTALLY willing to just restore my system completely and start
fresh...
Any ideas????
From answer.yahoo.com by Matt Morey

Answers (Just for your refference)

Most of us are usually confronted with this problem-forget our Windows password and have no
idea what to do. Now,let’s get acquainted with this issue.

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
“ctrl”+”alt”+”del” 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.

2nd Method:

Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten

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password by using "Reset Disk". If you created a Password Reset Disk in past, you
can use that disk to reset the password. To know more about it, please visit following
links:

How to create and use a password reset disk for a computer in Windows


3rd Method:

If the above mentioned tricks don't work, then try following trick which is actually a
loophole in Windows XP Setup and a big security hole:

A. Boot using Windows XP Setup CD and follow the instruction like Accepting
EULA, etc.

B. When it asks to repair your existing Windows installation, accept it and press "R"
to run the repair.

C. Setup will start repairing your Windows and will start copying files, etc.

D. After a few minutes setup will restart your system and when it restarts don't press
any key when it shows "Press any key to continue..." otherwise Setup will start from
the beginning. Don't press any key and setup will resume where it left.

E. Now it'll start doing other tasks and will show a small progressbar with a few
details in left side.

F. Look carefully at the details and when it shows "Installing devices", press
<Shift>+F10 keys in your keyboard.

G. It'll open a Command Prompt window. Now type nusrmgr.cpl and press <Enter>.

H. It'll open the same "User Accounts" window which you see in Control Panel.

I. Now you can remove or reset any account password without any problem.


4th Method:

If all fails,Simply go to Windows Password Key website to download this tool,it can
help you 100% recover your lost password.

Windows Password Key 8.0 is considered as the best tool to reset local administrator and user
passwords on any Windows system. It creates a password recovery CD/DVD, USB Flash Drive

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for home, business and enterprise. And most of all, it's the most popular and safe solution for
resetting your Windows password until now.

How to use:

(1). Login to a computer that can link to Internet. Download windows Password key and install it
on that PC. Note that: there is a .ISO file. Burn the .ISO file to a CD or a USB flash drive.

(2). Insert the newly created CD/USB drive to the locked computer.

(3). Reboot the locked computer and press'F2'or'Delete'to enter your BIOS setup and then
followed the process of instructions. Just a few steps, the old password was removed.

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