Forgot Windows 8 Password for Your Laptop?

Forgot Windows 8 password for your laptop? It is troublesome when you forgot windows 8 password especially your system contains important data. Though re-installing Windows 8 will help you remove Windows 8 password, it also erase your important data on computer. Many computer newbies don’t have any idea about password reset disc and other methods to reset the password in Windows 8. Here I’ll show you the easiest way to reset Windows 8 password using a bootable password reset disc.

How to Reset Forgotten Windows 8 Password for Your Laptop?
Reset Windows Password utility is one of the best Windows password recovery software which can help you unlock administrator password easily on Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP.

You have to boot into this program off a CD or USB drive, so it downloads as an .iso image file. Double-click that file and Windows just might start a program that burns the disc. If it doesn’t, download and install ISO2Disc, then try again. Simply copying the .iso file to a CD won’t work.

When you boot the Windows password reset disc, the computer will load the mini operating system inside the disc and finally start the Reset Windows Password program. The program automatically finds the Windows SAM database and retrieves the user accounts existing in your Windows 8 installation.



Simply select the user account whose password you want to reset, then click on Reset Password button. It will delete the forgotten/unknown password in no time.

Finally remove the CD and reboot the computer. It will boot Windows into the logon screen. Choose your user account and left the password field as blank, you can log in to Windows 8 without any hassle.

How to Unlock Windows XP Login Password

If you’ve lost your Windows account password, hopefully you had the foresight to create a password reset disc. Windows XP provides the option of creating a password reset disc to unlock lost accounts, but you need access to your account to do so. What to do if you forgot Windows login password and don’t have password reset disc?

In this tutorial we’ll show you the most efficient and easiest way to unlock Windows XP login password using a password unlocker boot CD. Just create such a boot CD in another computer, then boot your locked Windows XP computer from the CD and you can remove your forgotten login password easily.

How to Unlock Windows XP Login Password?

1. Before getting started, you need to prepare a password unlocker boot CD. Just download the Reset Windows Password software onto an alternative computer. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll get the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file. Burn this ISO image to a blank CD using any CD recording program such asBurnCDCC.

2. Power on your locked Windows XP computer and boot it into BIOS. Change the boot order so the computer will boot from CD prior to hard drive. Once the boot order is configured correctly, insert the password unlocker boot CD into the computer. It will load the operating system inside the CD.

3. After a while, the system will fire up the Reset Windows Password program. It automatically detects the SAM registry hive on your computer and shows a list of Windows user accounts.

4. Choose a user account whose password needs to be unlocked, and click on Reset Password button. The program will remove the user login password in a matter of seconds.

Restart the computer and take out the password unlocker boot CD, the computer will start normally from your hard drive. You can then log in Windows XP system without being required to enter a login password. Done!

How to Remove Windows Login Password Which You Have Forgotten

Forgot Windows login password? Or someone change the password on your computer and you can’t log in now? Password Recovery Bundle is the only risk-free solution to safely remove a forgotten Windows login password, so you can log back into Windows without losing any important files.

What you need to do is download the software onto an alternative computer and create a password removal CD. Boot the target computer from the CD and it enables you to remove Windows login password easily.

How to Remove Windows Login Password Which You Have Forgotten?

1. Download Password Recovery Bundle and save it onto an alternative computer. Install the software on the computer.

2. Start Password Recovery Bundle program and click on Windows Password button. This will bring up a new dialog which allows you to create a bootable password removal CD ( You can create a password removal USB drive if your computer doesn’t come with a CD/DVD-ROM ).

3. Set your locked computer to boot from the password removal CD. To boot from the CD-ROM drive, you may need to press a key such as F8 or F12 while your computer is starting up and set CD/DVD as the first boot device in BIOS.

4. After the CD boots, you will have a mini operating system loaded into memory which will launch Reset Windows Password utility. It will not install anything to your hard drive.

5. Click on the Reset Windows Local Admin/User Password option, the program will automatically detect the Windows SAM registry hive and local user accounts existing in your local computer.



6. Choose the use account whose password you want to remove, and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your forgotten Windows login password in a short time.

Take out the password removal CD and restart the computer, you’ll be able to login without a password. It’s essential to keep a password removal CD on hand for emergency situations, which allows you to remove Windows 8/7/Vista/XP login password quickly and easily.

How to Break Windows 8 Password

Forgot your Windows 8 password? If you couldn’t find a way to break the password, you’ll have to rebuild your PC from scratch. There are many different ways to break Windows login password, but most of them don’t support the latest Windows 8 operating system. In this tutorial we’ll show you an effective way to break Windows 8 password easily.

To accomplish this, we’ll use a tool called Reset Windows Password that can break your password so you can log in to Windows 8 without losing any information on your PC.

Step 1. Create a Bootable Password Breaker CD or USB Drive

The first thing you’ll need to do is download the Reset Windows Password utility, which comes as an ISO image file. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll get the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file.
Burn the ISO image file to a blank CD using any CD burning software such as BurnCDCC. If your computer doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive, you can burn the ISO image to USB drive using ISO2Disc software.

Step 2: Set Windows 8 PC to Boot from CD or USB Drive

Change the boot order in BIOS so the CD, or USB drive is listed first. Some computers are already configured this way but many are not. If you still can’t get it to boot from password breaker CD/USB or doesn’t know how to boot into BIOS, please refer your computer’s manual or check out this article: How to set computer to boot from CD/USB.

Step 3: Break Windows 8 Password

After booting from password breaker CD/USB drive, the computer will load the Windows PE operating system inside the CD/USB drive and launch the Reset Windows Password utility. Choose a user account whose password you want to break, and then click on Reset Password button. It will remove your forgotten Windows 8 password immediately.

Conclusion

The method could be used to break the password for both local account and Microsoft account in Windows 8. Additionally, it also enables you to break lost Windows 7/Vista/XP passwords, and reset local administrator and domain administrator passwords on Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000.

How to Log in If You Forgot Microsoft Account Password in Windows 8

A Microsoft account — a Hotmail account or Windows Live ID — is a new way to sign in to any PC running Windows 8. After switching from local account to Microsoft account, you can’t log in to your local account any longer, until you switch back to local account again. What to do if you forgot the password of your Microsoft account in Windows 8?

There are tons of password recovery software which can help you recover or reset Windows local account password. But none of them support the new sign-in account – Microsoft account. In this tutorial I will show you how to reset Microsoft account password in Windows 8 so you can sign in with a new password.

Most people think that an internet connection is needed in order to log in Windows 8 with a Microsoft account, but you will discover that Windows 8 allows you to log in even without internet. Actually, your Microsoft password will be cached locally by Windows 8 when you set up a Microsoft account. Next time when you login, it will attempt to connect to internet and verify your entered password. If the password is incorrect or there is no internet connection, Windows will use the cached login credentials to verify your password.

The cached passwords are stored as hashes in the local system registry, so it is difficult to crack or recover the original password. However, it’s possible to update the cached password hash using a new password, so you can log in the system with a new password in case your actual Hotmail password is lost or forgotten. Reset Windows Password is the right software which can help you easily reset Microsoft account password by running from a bootable CD or USB drive.

Reset Windows Password utility comes as an ISO image file. Just burn the ISO image to a CD or USB drive on an alternative computer, then use the disc to boot your locked Windows 8 computer. The password reset program inside the disc will launch and it allows you to reset the password of your Microsoft account easily.

How to Bypass Windows Login Password

What to do next if you forget your Windows 7 or XP password? The very first thing you should try is to go to safe mode and check whether you have set your administrator password. But if the administrator password is also set then you may be thinking the only way is to format the computer and install fresh Windows. Well, here I am going to suggest a method that will simply bypass Windows login password in case you forgot Windows 7/Vista/XP password.

Reset Windows Password is the software we’ll use in this guide to bypass forgotten login password on Windows 7/Vista/XP, which comes in bootable CD ISO image file. Just burn the ISO image to a CD (or USB device) you can use to boot the machine and remove the login password. Here are detailed instructions to bypass Windows login password:

Step 1: Create a Windows Password Reset Disk

1. First we need to find an accessible computer so we can create a Windows password reset disk on it.
2. Download the ISO image of Reset Windows Password boot CD which is zipped.
3. Extract the ISO file from the ZIP archive using WinZip.
4. Burn the ISO file to a CD or USB drive using ISO2Disc. After a few minutes a Windows password reset disk will be created and we’ll used it later to unlock administrator account.

Step 2: Set Your Locked Computer to Boot from Password Reset Disk

1. Turn on your locked computer and hold down F2 or whatever the setup key is shown as during the initial boot screen. This should bring up the BIOS.
2. In the BIOS look for the Boot Device Priority option, set CD/DVD as the 1st boot device if you want to boot from Windows password reset CD. You can either set Removable Device as the 1st boot device if you want to boot off a Windows password reset USB drive.
3. Next save your changes and reboot the computer.

Step 3: Bypass Windows Login Password

1. Once your computer boots from the Windows password reset disk, it will launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
2. This utility automatically scans your hard drive and find Windows SAM databases for all your Windows installations.
3. Choose a Windows SAM database. The program will display all Windows user accounts inside it.
4. Select the user account whose password is lost or forgotten, then click Reset Password button. The program will remove your forgotten password immediately.

Now you’ve completed the procedure of bypassing Windows login password. Remove the Windows password reset disk and reboot your computer. You’ll be able to bypass the Windows login screen without entering a password. It’s so simple!

How to Reset Lost Domain Admin Password in Windows Server 2012

In my previous post I’ve shown you how to install Active Directory in Windows Server 2012. During the procedure of promoting your server to a domain controller, you’ll be prompted to set a strong password for the administrator account in case the password is blank. What to do if you forgot the domain administrator password after installation?

As system/network administrator, you are usually confronted with the problem of forgetting domain admin password. Even if you don’t have to reset a password now, you should get acquainted with this issue. In this tutorial we’ll show you the easiest way to reset a lost domain administrator password in Windows Server 2012.

How to Reset Lost Domain Admin Password in Windows Server 2012?

1. Download and install Password Recovery Bundle on another computer that you can log in.
2. Prepare a blank CD and insert it into the computer.
3. Launch Password Recovery Bundle and click on Windows Password button, it will display the ISO burning dialog.
4. Choose the CD you’ve plugged in and then click on Start Burn button to create a Live CD.
5. After you have the Live CD, put it into the CD drive of your locked server PC whose password you want to reset.
6. Turn on the server and have it boot from the Live CD. You may need to go into BIOS and set CD/DVD as the first boot device.
7. After booting from the Live CD, it will load the Windows PE operating system inside the Live CD and start the Reset Windows Password program.
8. Choose the Active Directory NTDS.dit database, it will display a list of domain user accounts inside the NTDS.dit database.
9. Choose the administrator account from the list, then click on Reset Password button, the program will replace the forgotten/unknown administrator password with the new password: Password123.

Reject the Live CD and restart the server. You can then log in to the domain administrator account with the new password. It’s so easy to reset a lost domain admin password in Windows Server 2012!

How to Remove Lost Administrator Password in Windows 8

Lost or forgot your administrator password in Windows 8? Windows 8, as the latest operating system which has just been released by Microsoft, there are few tricks and tips you can use to recover or remove the login password on it. Fortunately, there is a powerful utility which can work with Windows 8 and allows you to remove lost administrator password easily – Password Recovery Bundle.

How to Remove Lost Administrator Password in Windows 8?

1. First you need to download Password Recovery Bundle program on another computer. After installing and running the program, click the Windows Password button, which allows you to create a password removal bootdisk in 3 steps. Insert a blank CD/DVD or USB drive into the computer and click Start Burn to create a bootdisk.
2. Insert the password removal bootdisk you’ve created into the computer which locked you out of it. Turn on the computer and hold down F2 or whatever the setup key is shown as during the initial boot screen. This should bring up the BIOS.
   In the BIOS look for the Boot Device Priority option, set CD/DVD as the 1st boot device if you want to boot from CD. You can either set Removable Device as the 1st boot device if you want to boot off USB drive. Save your changes.
3. Restart the computer and now it will boot from the password removal bootdisk. After one or two minutes the bootdisk will launch the Reset Windows Password utility. Choose the administrator account, and then click Reset Password button. The program will remove your lost administrator password instantly.
4. Now remove the password removal bootdisk and restart the computer, you can then quickly log on Windows 8 system without being asked for a password.

Password Recovery Bundle could also be used to remove lost administrator password in Windows 7/Vista/XP. It can save you lots of time and frustration in case you lost or forgot Windows 8 administrator password.

Forgot Windows 8 Administrator Password

What to do if you forgot Windows 8 administrator password? Is there any other option to unlock your computer than re-installing Windows 8? In this tutorial we’ll show you how to reset Windows 8 administrator password in case you forgot the password or the administrator account is locked out or disabled.

How to Reset Forgotten Windows 8 Administrator Password?

1. Click here to download the Reset Windows Password software. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll find the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.
2. Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using any CD/DVD recording software such as BurnCDCC or ISO2Disc.
3. Place the Live CD you’ve created in the CD drive of your Windows 8 computer. Head into the BIOS and set the computer to boot from CD.
4. The boot procedure may take one or two minutes, and the Reset Windows Password program will start.
5. From the main window of Reset Windows Password program, you could see the Windows SAM registry file and user accounts inside the SAM file.
6. Choose the administrator account, and then click on the Reset Password button. It will immediately reset the forgotten administrator password and unlock the user account if it is locked out or disabled.

After resetting Windows 8 administrator password, remove the CD and reboot the computer. You can then log in to Windows 8 administrator account without entering a password. If your computer doesn’t have a CD drive, you can use USB stick to create a Live disk to unlock your forgotten administrator password.

How to Hack Windows Administrator Password

Most of us have experienced a situation where in we need to gain access to a computer which is password protected or at times we may forget the administrator password without which it becomes impossible to login to the computer. So here is an excellent hack.

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to hack Windows administrator password on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. The only requirement for this is that you need to find an alternative computer to create a password hacking Live CD. Here is a step-by-step instruction to hack Windows administrator password.

1. Click here to download the Reset Windows Password software. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll find the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.
2. Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using any CD/DVD recording software such as BurnCDCC or ISO2Disc.
3. Place the Live CD you’ve created in the CD drive of your computer with the administrator password you want to hack. Head into the computer BIOS and set your computer to boot from CD.
4. The boot procedure may take one or two minutes, and the Reset Windows Password program will start.
5. From the main window of Reset Windows Password program, you could see the Windows SAM registry file and user accounts inside the SAM file.
6. Choose the administrator account, and then click on the Reset Password button. It will blank your forgotten/unknown password instantly.

Now remove the password hacking Lice CD and restart the computer. You can then log in to the administrator account with a blank password. This hack works even if you forgot the administrator password and can’t log in to Windows.

How to Recover Windows Login Password

If you have lost and forgotten login password of your Windows computer, but you can still log in to the system when automatic logon is enabled, then there are two ways you can recover Windows login password.

The first option is to use Ophcrack. This is a Windows password cracking tool that reads the NT/LM hashed (encrypted) copies of the passwords from the system, and then uses dictionary and/or brute force methods to find the password that matches the hash. The stronger the password (the longer it is, whether it uses random letters and numbers or words and names) the longer this will take.

The second option is to use Reset Windows Password utility. If you have lost the administrator password and are unable to log in to the computer at all then you must reset the password to something known. This is achieved by booting the computer from a bootable CD/USB and remove the login password as blank. Here are detailed steps:

How to Recover Windows Login Password?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.

2. Insert the bootable CD/USB drive into the target computer with a forgotten administrator password. Power on the computer and set it to boot from CD or USB, not your local hard drive.

3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the CD/USB drive, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.



4. Choose a user account and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your Windows login password immediately.

5. Remove the bootable CD or USB drive. Restart the computer and you can then log in to Windows with a blank password.

With Reset Windows Password utility you can easily recover Windows login password for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server 2008/2003/2000.

How to Bypass Windows 7/Vista/XP Admin Password

For most Windows users, forgetting the password to an administrator account can be devastating. Hacking your way into the computer is not always easy and trying to remember the password may not do you any good either. Luckily there is a powerful recovery software which allows you to bypass Windows 7/Vista/XP admin password in minutes.

With Reset Windows Password utility you can bypass Windows admin password through booting your computer from a CD or USB drive. Quickly regain access to your locked computer when you forgot the administrator password. This method is a very simple one. You just need to download the software on an alternative computer, and create a bootable CD or USB drive. So you can then use it to boot your computer and remove the forgotten admin password easily.

How to Bypass Windows 7/Vista/XP Admin Password?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
2. Insert the bootable CD/USB drive into the target computer with a forgotten administrator password. Power on the computer and set it to boot from CD or USB, not your local hard drive.
3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the CD/USB drive, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.
   
4. Choose the administrator account and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your Windows administrator password immediately.
5. Remove the bootable CD or USB drive. Restart the computer and you can then log in to your administrator account with a blank password.

With Reset Windows Password utility you can also unlock any locked-out or disabled Windows accounts, and bypass domain administrator passwords on a domain controller. I think, this would be the perfect password recovery tool for both home and business users alike.

How to Remove Windows Administrator Password

Forgot Windows administrator password? This might bring a lot of irritating and time consuming consequences. Even if you can still log on your computer with a limited account, you don’t have full right to remove or change administrator password. So the only option is to do it from a boot CD/USB.

With Reset Windows Password utility you are able to remove Windows administrator password without knowing the original one for your Windows 8/7/Vista/XP system. This utility works by making a bootable CD or USB drive. After booting from the CD/USB drive, this utility gains full access to the Windows SAM (Security Accounts Manager) file where all Windows passwords are stored, and enables you to easily remove the password associated with your administrator account.

How to Remove Windows Administrator Password?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
2. Insert the bootable CD/USB drive into the target computer with a forgotten administrator password. Power on the computer and set it to boot from CD or USB, not your local hard drive.
3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the CD/USB drive, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.
   
4. Choose the administrator account and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your Windows administrator password immediately.
5. Remove the bootable CD or USB drive. Restart the computer and you can then log in to your administrator account with a blank password.

Reset Windows Password utility can be used to as a great relief if you are usually confronted with the problem of forgetting Windows password. Follow this simple guide you can remove Windows administrator password on almost all versions of Windows system.

How to Reset Login Password in Windows 7/Vista/XP

Forgot the login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP? There a couple of different approaches you can take to recover access to your computer, depending on your exact situation. In any event you have two basic choices: you must either crack the login password or forcefully reset it to something known. It seems obvious to me that resetting the password will take much less time that brute force cracking, so it’s a more cost effective way to get around the password forgotten problem.

Reset Windows Password is the powerful password reset bootdisk which comes with the ability of resetting login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP. Using the boot disk to remove a login password is much easier than re-installing Windows. No need to take your PC to a computer repair shop or call a technician to your home to fix the issue for you. You can reset forgotten Windows login password on your own.

How to Reset Login Password in Windows 7/Vista/XP?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
2. Insert the bootdisk you’ve created into the target computer whose login password you want to reset. Power on the computer and set it to boot from your bootdisk instead of the local hard drive.
3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the bootdisk, it will open up the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.
   
4. Choose a user account and then click on Reset Password button, it will reset your login password immediately.

The last step is remove the bootdisk and restart the computer. You’ll find that you can log in to your desired account with a blank password. Additionally, you can use the same bootdisk to reset login password for domain user accounts in Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. I think every system/network administrators should have a copy of the password reset bootdisk in their toolbox.

Crack Windows Administrator Password When You're Locked Out

This tutorial will show you how to crack Windows administrator password when you forgot it or need to gain access to a computer which is password protected. Most of us have way too many passwords to remember on a daily basis. The worst case scenario is where you forgot Windows administrator password without which it becomes impossible to login to your computer. So here is an excellent password cracking trick.

There are many password cracker tools available on the net which can be used to crack Windows login password, but most of them are useless if the operating system is inaccessible. That's where Reset Windows Password utility comes in. This software runs on a Live CD or USB drive so you can boot into your computer and crack Windows administrator password on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP.

1.Create a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive

 

To get started, you need to create a bootable password cracking CD/USB on an alternative computer. So you can then use it to crack the administrator password on your locked-out computer.

1. Click here to download and save the Reset Windows Password self-extracting Zip file to a folder on your hard drive, then extract the ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso from it.
2. Insert a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive on your computer.
3. Download and install the ISO2Disc utility, launch the program.
4. Click the Browse button to locate your ISO image file, then click the Start Burn button to burn the ISO image to your CD/DVD or USB flash drive.
   

2.Change BIOS Settings

1. Boot your locked computer. When it is powered on, check the boot-screen for setup key (i.e. DELETE key, F8 key, F2 key) to enter BIOS Setup Utility.
2. Use the arrow keys to select the BOOT tab, then change the Boot Device Priority: Set 1st Boot Device to CDROM if you just created a bootable CD or DVD, or set 1st Boot Device to Removable Device if a bootable USB flash drive was created.
   
3. Press F10 to save your changes. Now your computer is able to boot from CD/DVD or USB flash drive.

3.Crack Windows Administrator Password

1. Insert the newly burned CD/DVD or USB flash drive to your locked computer, then reboot your computer.
2. Shortly after the computer boots up from the CD/USB drive, you'll the Reset Windows Password screen.
   
   
3. Simply select your Windows SAM registry hive if multiple operating systems have been installed on the computer, the program will list all Windows user accounts. Select the administrator account from the list, then click the Reset Password button to remove the forgotten password.
4. Click the Restart button to reboot the computer, you are able to log into the administrator account without a password.

Reset Windows Password utility can also be used to crack domain administrator password on Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. So this tool is not only of interest to home users, even enterprise customers could use it when forgetting domain user password.

How to Hack Windows XP Password with ERD Commander

Forgot the admin password of your Windows XP computer? How to hack Windows XP password without losing your files? There are plenty of password hacking tools available on the net – commercial as well as free. Here is another way to hack or break the lost administrator password in your Windows XP installation.

ERD Commander is part of the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), which can help you quickly troubleshoot and repair computer that will not boot. Locksmith is one of the useful utilities inside ERD Commander bootable CD, which allows you to hack Windows XP password easily.

How to Hack Windows XP Password with ERD Commander

To begin to hack Windows XP password, you need to get a registered copy of the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). Install DaRT on an alternative computer, and then launch the ERD Commander Boot Media Wizard from your Start menu to create a ERD Commander boot CD.

1. Insert the ERD Commander boot CD into the drive of your Windows XP computer which you want to hack into.
2. Boot the computer using ERD Commander boot CD. You may have to set the boot order in the BIOS first.
3. Select your Windows XP installation from the list, and click OK.
4. After logging into the system inside the boot CD, click on Start menu, then select System Tools and click Locksmith.
5. It will bring up the Locksmith Wizard. Click on Next.
6. Select the user account from the drop-down list, type your new password and confirm it. Click on Next.
7. Locksmith will hack your Windows XP password and replace the current password with your new one.
8. Click on Finish.

Reboot the computer and you can then log on Windows XP using your new password. Unfortunately, DaRT is not free. What’s even worse is that not everyone can buy it. It is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which is only available for volume-licensed customers (and for Technet/MSDN subscribers).

Locksmith also doesn’t work on domain controllers. If you forgot the password of local admin or domain user account, I recommend you to get the Reset Windows Password utility for only $24.95!

How to get around Windows password when you forgot it? It seems to be extremely difficult if you don’t have the right tools. Here I would recommend Reset Windows Password utility, which enables you to get around Windows 8/7/Vista/XP password easily. The process can be undertaken with a basic knowledge of computer and a bit of time, and will allow you to reset the password on any user account.

How to Get Around Windows Password to Log on Your Computer?

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility. Unzip the download file, you’ll get the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso, which contains a Windows password reset program.

2. Write the boot CD ISO image to a blank CD using a CD writer and CD writing program. If your computer doesn’t have a CD drive, you can burn the ISO image to a USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.

3. Insert the freshly-written boot CD into the computer whose administrator password needs to be reset. Restart the computer and boot from the CD.

4. After booting from the CD, it will load the operating system inside the CD and start the Reset Windows Password program.

5. Select the SAM registry hive from the drop-down list, it will display a list of local user accounts for your Windows installation.

6. Choose the user account whose password you forgot, then click on the Reset Password button, it will remove your forgotten password immediately.

7. Exit the password reset program and restart your computer. You can then log on your computer with a blank password.

With the password reset CD you can easily get around Windows password on almost all versions of Windows operating systems, quickly log on to your computer without losing any files.

How to Reset Local Administrator Password in Windows

Forgot Windows local administrator password? People often find themselves locked out of their Windows operating systems as a result of a lost password for the administrator account. Usually people consider the system a lost cause and start rebuilding it. However, you can use the following tip to work around this problem.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to reset local administrator password in all versions of Windows, in case you forgot the admin password or you are locked out of your computer.

How to Reset Local Administrator Password in Windows?

Before resetting forgotten local administrator password, you need to find an alternative computer with internet access to download and create a password reset CD or USB stick. Boot your target computer from the CD or USB stick, you are allowed to reset the forgotten local administrator password easily! Here are the complete instructions:

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility, which comes as an ISO image. Unzip the download file, you’ll find the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file.
2. Burn the ISO image file to a blank CD or USB stick using any CD-recording freeware: ISO2Disc or BurnCDCC.
3. Insert the password reset CD or USB stick into the target computer whose local administrator you want to reset.
4. Set the computer to boot from the CD/USB. To do this you need to set CD or removal device as the first boot device in computer BIOS.
5. After booting from the password reset CD/USB, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program.
   
6. Click on the Reset Local Admin/User Password option, the program will display a list of Windows local user accounts inside the SAM database.
7. Select the local administrator account and then click on the Reset Password button, it will remove your forgotten local admin password immediately.

With the created password reset CD/USB, you can reset local administrator password on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000 and Windows Server 2008/2003/2000, including 64-bit operating system.

2 Options to Reset Directory Services Restore Mode Password

When a Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 machine is prompted to a domain controller (DC), the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is created for the local administrator account. This password will be used only when booting into the recovery console or Directory Services Restore Mode. If you forget the DSRM password, you can't use the recovery console nor restore the Active Directory (AD) database.

Luckily there are two simple solutions to a forgotten DSRM password: Ntdsutil and Reset Windows Password. In this tutorial we'll show you how to use the software to reset Directory Services Restore Mode password in Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 domain controller.

Option 1: Reset DSRM Password with Ntdsutil

1. On your machine, select Run from the Start menu, type ntdsutil and click OK.
   
2. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type set dsrm password.
3. At the DSRM command prompt, run the Reset Password command, passing the name of the server on which to change the password, or use the null argument to specify the local machine. For example, to reset the password on server thanos, enter the following command:

   reset password on server thanos

   To reset the password on the local machine, specify null as the server name:

   reset password on server null

4. You'll be prompted twice to enter the new password.
5. Type q to exit the DSRM command prompt.
6. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type q to exit.

You can now use the local administrator account to log on to the recovery console or Directory Services Restore Mode using the new password. However, you can only use the Ntdsutil utility to reset DSRM password while logging into domain controller. If you also forgot domain administrator password, then you need to use the method below to change your forgotten DSRM password.

Option 2: Reset DSRM Password with Reset Windows Password Utility

1. You need an alternative computer with internet access to download the Reset Windows Password utility.
2. Unzip the download file, you'll get the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file.
3. Burn the ISO image file to a CD or USB thumb drive using the ISO2Disc tool.
4. Insert your newly burned CD/USB drive into the domain controller and power it up. Set the computer to boot from CD/USB by going into BIOS.
5. Once you've gotten it to boot from the CD/USB, the computer will load the system inside the CD/USB drive and launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
   
6. Click on the Reset Local Admin/User Password option, you'll see the Windows SAM database and local user accounts.
7. Choose the local administrator account and click on the Reset Password button.
8. It will remove your forgotten DSRM password immediately.

Additionally, you can also use Reset Windows Password utility to reset forgotten domain administrator password for Windows 2000 / 2003 / 2008 Active Directory domain controllers.

Active Directory Password Recovery

How to recover Active Directory password when you forgot it? It is not so simple to recover the Active Directory user password than Windows local account. You can use the freeware Ophcrack to reset your forgotten Windows local account password but it doesn’t work for Active Directory user account due to its superior security characteristics.

Actually, you can also recover forgotten Active Directory password easily if you pick up the right solution. Here we’ll recommend the Password Recovery Bundle, which allows you to create a bootable recovery CD or USB and use it to recover Active Directory password on Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. Let’s see how it works!

Active Directory Password Recovery Procedure:

1. Download and install Password Recovery Bundle on another computer that you can log in.
2. Prepare a blank CD and insert it into the computer. If your computer doesn’t come with CD drive, you can use USB flash drive instead.
3. Launch Password Recovery Bundle and click on Windows Password button, it will display the ISO burning window.
   
4. Choose your CD you’ve plugged in and then click on Start Burn button to create a bootable recovery CD.
5. After you have the recovery CD, put it into the CD drive of your domain controller whose password you want to recover.
6. Turn on the domain controller and have it boot from the recovery CD. You may need to go into BIOS and set CD/DVD as the first boot device.
7. After booting from the recovery CD, it will load the Windows PE operating system inside the recovery CD and start the Reset Windows Password program.
   
8. Choose the Active Directory NTDS.dit database, it will display a list of domain user accounts inside the NTDS.dit database.
9. Choose a domain user account from the list, then click on Reset Password button, the program will replace the forgotten/unknown password with a new password: Password123.

Take out the recovery CD and reboot your domain controller. You can then log in to your Active Directory user account with the new password. The Active Directory password recovery solution works on both 32-bit and 64-bit domain controller.

Reset Forgotten Admin Password on Windows 8/7/XP Tablet PC

Forgot the admin password on your Windows 8/7/XP tablet? Many times you need to reset tablet login password when you can't log into Windows due to a forgotten password or others changed your password without your consent. In this guide I'll show you how to reset forgotten admin password on Windows 8/7/XP tablet PC so you can get back to the homescreen easily.

1.Create A Bootable USB Stick

1. Download and save the Reset Windows Password self-extracting Zip file to another computer, then extract the ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso from it.
2. Plug in a USB stick into the USB port of the computer.
3. Download and install the ISO2Disc utility, launch the program.
4. Locate your ISO image file, then click the Start Burn button to burn the ISO image to your USB stick.
   

2.Boot Tablet PC from USB Stick

1. Pop in the USB stick into the USB port of your Tablet PC.
2. Reboot the tablet. Hit the Home Screen button only one time.
3. Use the Up/Down Volume Control to navigate to the USB stick. Once selected, press the Screen Lock.
4. The tablet PC will boot from the USB stick now.

If you still can't get it to boot from USB stick, try to change the BIOS settings to boot from USB. You may need to connect a keyboard to the USB port to change BIOS settings. To know how to boot into BIOS, please refer your tablet's manual or check out this article: How to set computer to boot from CD/USB.

3.Reset Windows Admin Password on Tablet PC

1. Once the tablet PC is booting from USB stick, it will load the operating system inside the USB stick and launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
   
2. Simply select your Windows SAM registry hive, the program will list all Windows user accounts.
3. Select the administrator account from the list, then click the Reset Password button to remove the forgotten password.
4. Remove the USB stick and restart the tablet PC, it will boot normally from your hard drive and you can log in to the administrator account with a blank password.

If your tablet PC can connect to a CD-ROM, you can also create a bootable password reset CD and follow this guide to reset your forgotten admin password. Reset Windows Password utility can be used to reset forgotten Windows password on desktop, laptop and tablet PCs.

How to Recover Opera Password from Opera Wand

The Wand is Opera's built-in password manager, which makes it easy to save the passwords you use to log in to websites. When you visit a website with a stored login and password, the Wand will populate your password specific to that site. The problem is that Opera don't allow you to see the saved passwords in the Wand. What to do if you forgot the saved password but have to reformat your PC or uninstall Opera browser?

In this tutorial we'll show you how to recover the saved passwords from Opera Wand. Opera Password Recovery is a powerful application which can decrypt Opera Web browser password file (wand.dat) and recover all website passwords stored in the Wand, so that you can actually get the stored passwords in case you just forgot them.

How to Recover Opera Password from Opera Wand

1. Download and install Opera Password Recovery program.
2. Run Open Password Recovery, then click the Start Recovery button.
   
   
3. It automatically tries to locate the wand.dat for your Opera browser, and display all website passwords stored in this file. You can then backup Opera passwords in a safe place.

Need to recover Opera password from a crashed or unbootable computer? Just copy the Opera wand.dat file to a working computer, launch Opera Password Recovery program and then click on the Recover From File button to choose the desired wand.dat file, it will recover the saved passwords in no time!

How to Reset Lost Password in Windows XP Tablet PC

Forgot the login password for your Windows XP Tablet PC? Nothing to panic! This article will show you an easy way to reset Windows admin/user passwords in Windows XP Table PC if you forgot the password. Instantly regain access to your Tablet PC without erasing any data on your hard drive.

How to Reset Lost Password in Windows XP Tablet PC?

This guide involves burning a Live CD or USB stick (or SD Card) on another computer, and then boot up your Windows XP Tablet PC with the Live CD/USB so you can reset the lost login password offline.

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility. Unzip the download file, you’ll see the ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.
2. Burn that ISO image to a blank CD or USB stick with ISO2Disc tool.
3. Insert the CD or USB stick you’ve just created into your Windows XP Tablet PC.
4. Boot your Tablet PC from the CD or USB stick, it will load the operating system inside the CD or USB stick, and launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
   
5. From the screen of Reset Windows Password utility, you can see the Windows SAM registry hives detected on your hard drive. Choose one of your Windows SAM registry hives from the drop-down list, the program will show a list of Windows user accounts for your Windows XP Tablet PC.
6. Select your desired user account and then click Reset Password button. It will remove your forgotten Windows password immediately.

Remove the CD or USB stick and reboot from hard drive, you can then log in to Windows XP Tablet PC with a blank password. If your Tablet PC don’t come with CD drive, you can use a SD card or data stick instead to go through the steps of resetting Windows XP Tablet PC password.

How to Break Domain Controller Password without Logging In

Forgot domain administrator password and couldn’t log on your domain controller? This is the most common password problems that many network administrators and system administrators face when dealing with domain controller. Here we’ll show you an easy way to break domain controller password quickly and easily.

Reset Windows Password is the powerful utility which enables you to break domain controller password on Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. This utility works offline, that means you need to shut down your computer and boot off your using a CD or USB stick.

How this software works?

Windows Active Directory stores the domain user passwords and other account information in a file called NTDS.dit. This file can be usually found in:\windows\ntds. This file is a part of Active Directory database and remains inaccessible as long as the domain controller is running. Hence, it is necessary that you boot off your computer and access this NTDS.dit file via the boot disk. This tool intelligently gains access to this file and will reset/change the password associated with administrator or any other domain user account.

How to break domain controller password without logging in?

The steps involves burning a Live CD on another accessible computer, and then boot up your domain controller with the Live CD so you can break domain controller without even logging in.

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility. Unzip the download file and you’ll get a ResetWindowsPwd.iso file.
2. Burn the ISO image file to a blank CD using any burning program (we recommend BurnCDCC) that can burn ISO images.
3. After you have the Live CD, bring it to boot off your domain controller whose password you want to break. You’ll see that the computer will load some files inside the Live CD and launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
4. Click on the Reset Active Directory Password option, then choose the Active Directory ntds.dit database file from the drop-down list. It will display the domain user accounts and you can find which account is password-protected, locked out or disabled.
5. Choose a user account and then click on the Reset Password button, it will break your domain account and change the forgotten/unknown password to a new one: Password123.
6. Now remove the Live CD and restart the computer, you can then log in to your domain user account with the new password.

With the Live CD you can also use it to reset local admin/user passwords on Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 and Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. It’s a must-have Live CD for network administrators and system administrators.

How to Crack PST Password if You Forgot It

When you lost or forgot Outlook PST password, it means that you are not able to open Outlook and read email from the protected PST file. To explain, the PST file is used by Outlook to hold all of your emails, appointments and contacts in Outlook. You can copy the file to another computer or a USB drive, but when trying to import the file onto a fresh install of Outlook, a window will pop up asking you to enter the PST password.

It is good practice to set up a password to prevent unauthorized access to your PST file, but we often forgot the password for various reasons. Here I’ll show you an easy way to crack PST password if you forgot it. Outlook Password Recovery is the best PST password cracker which allows you to crack PST password in seconds on all versions of Outlook files.

How to Crack PST Password if You Forgot It?

1. Download and install Outlook Password Recovery program on your computer.
2. Launch the program and then click on the Unlock PST File button.
3.  On the pop-up dialog, locate your Outlook PST file and then click on the Open button. If you don’t know where the PST file is located, please refer to this article: Introduction to Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst)
4. Your Outlook PST password will be cracked and recovered immediately.

After cracking, you can use the recovered password to open your password-protected PST file in Outlook. The method works on PST files created in Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2000 and 98. Happy cracking!

How to Hack Windows 7 Password The Easy Way

The easiest and most straightforward way to hack Windows 7 password is to use a password reset disk. The problem with this option is that you have to create the reset disk before the password is lost. Thus if you don’t have a password reset disk, this option is not for you. With the third-party software – Reset Windows Password, you are allowed to create a Live CD which can be used to boot your locked computer and hack Windows 7 password in no time.

Before we begin, you need to prepare an empty CD and make a password hacking Live CD on another computer you have full access to. Later set your locked computer to boot from the Live CD and hack the forgotten/unknown password. Here are the step-by-step instructions.

How to Hack Windows 7 Password The Easy Way?

1. Click here to download the Reset Windows Password software. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll find the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.
2. Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using any CD/DVD recording software such as BurnCDCC or ISO2Disc.
3. Place the Live CD you’ve created in the CD drive of your computer with a password you want to hack. Head into the computer BIOS and set your computer to boot from CD.
4. The boot procedure may take one or two minutes, and the Reset Windows Password program will start.
   
5. From the main window of Reset Windows Password program, you could see the Windows SAM registry file and user accounts inside the SAM file.
6. Choose the user account whose password you want to hack, and then click on the Reset Password button. It will blank your forgotten/unknown password instantly.

Remove the Live CD and restart the computer. You can then log in to the computer without being asked to enter Windows login password, as you’ve successfully hacked Windows 7 password and replaced the forgotten password with an empty password.

How to Recover Active Directory Password with A Live CD

Forgot Active Directory password is one of the most annoying thing for network administrators in medium to large organizations. If the domain controller is very important for your company, then you have to find some other ways to recover Active Directory password than formatting and reinstalling the server. There are many excellent Windows password recovery software available on the internet, but none of them are able to recover Active Directory password.

Active Directory password is encrypted and stored in the NTDS.dit database. Once you’ve forgotten the password, you have no access to all your computer files. So we need to create a Live CD and use it to boot your domain controller for performing password recovery. Password Recovery Bundle is the only software you need in this tutorial.

How to Recover Active Directory Password with A Live CD?

1. Download and install Password Recovery Bundle on another computer that you can log in.
2. Prepare a blank CD and insert it into the computer.
3. Launch Password Recovery Bundle and click on Windows Password button, it will display the ISO burning dialog.
   
4. Choose your CD you’ve plugged in and then click on Start Burn button to create a Live CD.
5. After you have the Live CD, put it into the CD drive of your domain controller whose password you want to recover.
6. Turn on the domain controller and have it boot from the Live CD. You may need to go into BIOS and set CD/DVD as the first boot device.
7. After booting from the Live CD, it will load the Windows PE operating system inside the Live CD and start the Reset Windows Password program.
   
8. Choose the Active Directory NTDS.dit database, it will display a list of domain user accounts inside the NTDS.dit database.
9. Choose a domain user account from the list, then click on Reset Password button, the program will replace the forgotten/unknown password with a new password: Password123.

Remove the Live CD and restart the domain controller, you can then log in to your Active Directory user account and recover access to all data and files on your domain controller. The Active Directory password recovery procedure is simple and fast! No need to spend a lot of time to rebuild your server.

How to Crack Windows XP Password from A Live CD

"I have forgotten Windows XP login password. I had only one account. No I have no idea how to log on to Windows. I can't re-install windows now because I have data in it. How can I get in?"

Are you in a situation where you have lost password of Windows XP admin account? There is nothing worse than forgetting Windows login password and you can't login with any administrative account. Even though you can enter your computer with a guest or standard user account, you still couldn't download and install software on your PC. Is it possible to crack Windows XP password?

In this tutorial we'll show you how to crack Windows XP password from a Live CD. Follow the steps below to create a Live CD on your accessible computer, then boot your locked computer from the Live CD and it allows you to crack Windows XP password quickly.

Step 1. Create a Password Cracking Live CD

1. Download and save the Reset Windows Password self-extracting Zip file to a folder on your hard drive, then extract the ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso from it.
2. Put a blank CD or DVD in the CD drive of your computer.
3. Download and install the ISO2Disc utility, launch the program.
4. Click the Browse button to locate your ISO image file, then click the Start Burn button to create a Windows XP password cracker Live CD.

Step 2. Change BIOS Settings

1. Boot your Windows XP computer whose password you want to crack. When it is powered on, check the boot-screen for setup key (i.e. DELETE key, F8 key, F2 key) to enter BIOS Setup Utility.
2. Use the arrow keys to select the BOOT tab, then change the Boot Device Priority: use the arrow key to move CD/DVD to the top of the boot sequence list.
3. Press F10 to save your changes.

Step 3. Crack Windows XP Password

1. Place the password cracking Live CD in the CD drive, then turn on your locked computer.
2. Now the computer will boot from the Live CD. Wait until the boot process is finished, you'll see the main window of Reset Windows Password utility.
3. Select a user account from the list, then click the Reset Password button. The program will crack the Windows XP password inside Windows SAM database, and remove your forgotten Windows XP password instantly.
4. Click the Restart button to reboot the computer, you can then login with a blank password.

Not only for Windows XP, you can also use the Live CD to crack Windows 8/7/Vista password easily. Don't just take my word for it. Give it a try for yourself and you'll find how incredibly powerful it is!

How to Crack Windows 7 Password Quickly and Easily

Forgot the password of your Windows 7 account and can't log in? How to crack Windows 7 password so you can log back into your computer without losing important files? If you have never forgotten a password like this before, you're likely to be stuck there and have no idea how to crack the password. Here we're going to discuss on how to crack Windows 7 password quickly and easily.

Method 1: Crack Windows 7 Password without Logging In

Forgot Windows 7 password or you are completely locked out of your own computer? Reset Windows Password is a boot-disk application that makes it easy to reset Windows 7 admin/user passwords even if you can't log on your computer. Just burn this software onto a CD or USB flash drive, and then boot your PC with the disc, it will allow you to crack Windows 7 password quickly.

1. Download the self-extracting Zip file of Reset Windows Password package.
2. Unzip the download file, there is an ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso. Burn the CD image onto a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
3. Boot your locked computer from the newly burned CD/DVD or USB flash drive.
4. After a while, the bootdisk will launch the Reset Windows Password utility.
5. Select the user account whose password you forgot, then click Reset Password button. It will remove your forgotten Windows 7 password instantly.

Method 2: Crack Windows 7 Password While Logged In

Forgot Windows 7 password but you can still log on the computer with administrator account? This usually happens when you enable the auto-logon feature in Windows, so the computer will automatically log on to Windows every time it's powered on. After a long time you tend to forget the login password remembered by Windows.

There are many Windows password cracking software that can help you crack Windows 7 password easily. Ophcrack is one of the most popular freeware that you can install it on your computer and perform password cracking.

1. Download and install Ophcrack on your computer.
2. Run the program and click on Tables button. Select the table you downloaded and click Install, navigate to the folder where you unzipped the table, select it and then click OK.
3. You need to supply the program with a NT/LM hash to get started. Click on Load button, then select the Local SAM with samdump2, it will extract the NT/LM hash for Windows user accounts on your local computer.
4. Choose a user account and then click on Crack button to begin the password cracking procedure.
5. It will take some time to crack Windows password.

The cracking process can take some time, as well, depending on the password you are trying to crack. Simple passwords tend to be quick – complex passwords take more time. If you used a complex password on a Windows Vista/7 machine you may be out of luck. But you are guaranteed to successfully crack your forgotten Windows login password with the Reset Windows Password utility.

5 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools

Forgetting Windows password isn't just embarrassing, it also makes you lose all access to your computer files all of a sudden. Things can get even worse if you have no idea how to recover the password but you need to use the computer urgently. Luckily there are some Windows password recovery freeware which can help you get out of such situation. Here is a list of 5 best free Windows password recovery tools that will help you recover forgotten Windows administrator or other user passwords.

1. Ophcrack

Ophcrack is the wonderful free tool to recover forgotten Windows password. It's very easy to use Ophcrack software, Ophcrack support Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7. Just download Ophcrack ISO image from its official website and burn it to a CD and boot from the CD, well this amazing tool automatically starts locating your user account and proceed to recover your password.

2. John The Ripper

John The Ripper is a fast password cracker based on dictionary attack with a wordlist currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

3. Cain & Able

Cain & Able is a fast, free and effective Windows password recovery utility. Cain & Able requires administrator account access to Windows. You need to log in your system with admin account to install this tool. You also need to download rainbow tables to work with this tool. This tool is only working on Windows XP operating system.

4. LCP

LCP is yet another free password recovery software tool for Windows. Like Cain & Abel, LCP is a standard Windows program you download from LCPSoft's website and install inside of Windows, meaning you'll need access to a user account on the computer. LCP can be a little intimidating to those new to Windows password recovery tools so some prior knowledge is very helpful to avoid even bigger problems with your PC.

5. Knoppix STD

G4TV has a good article on another Linux distro you can download and use to crack Windows password. Follow the detailed instructions he gives and if the password is not too long or difficult, it should be able to crack it!

Conclusion

There free Windows password recovery tools might be a little too techie for some people, but it's definitely worth it if you want to recover Windows password for free. If you are not tech savvy, it's recommended to use the paid option - Reset Windows Password, which allows you to instantly reset forgotten Windows 8/7/Vista/XP password by creating a bootable password reset CD/USB.

3 Best Free Windows Password Reset Software

Have you ever forgotten your Windows account password? If you have then you already know how painful the password reset process can be. There is a good chance that Windows users who are not tech savvy fail to reset Windows password and end up re-installing Windows, probably losing all your installed software and its settings or even important data.

Whether you have or have not been through that situation, you do not want to be in those circumstances any time in the future. To help you out if you forgot Windows password, I have gathered a list of 3 freeware programs that will help reset Windows password for free.

1. Ultimate Boot CD

Ultimate Boot CD is a powerful free toolset to fix unbootable computers and recover data from them.It is a self-contained bootable OS on live CD with loads of useful software for repairing or fixing almost any Windows problem.

Ultimate Boot CD is intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults. Additionally, It is capable of resetting Windows password of any user account, including the administrator password in Windows NT, 2000, and XP without needing to know the previous password.

2. Offline NT Password and Registry Editor

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is a freeware utility that allows you to change or reset the password of any user that has a valid account on a local NT/2000/XP/2003/Server 2008/Vista 32 & 64-bit system. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one which makes this ideal for users who have forgotten their passwords or were locked out by someone else. Unlocking locked or disabled accounts is also supported.

This tool comes in the form as a bootable CD ISO image but can also be made to boot from a USB drive. The application is Linux-based technician tool and shouldn't be used by people without Linux skills and experience.

3. Kon-Boot

Kon-Boot is yet another free Windows password reset program, much like Offline NT password and Registry Editor. Just burn the program to a disc, boot to it, and you're off.

Kon-Boot works differently than the two password reset tools above, so if you have problems using them, give Kon-Boot a try. It's very easy to use and probably the fastest password reset tool available.

Unfortunately, Kon-Boot does not work with 64-bit versions of Windows. I used Kon-Boot to successfully reset the password on a Windows Vista PC and then also on a Windows XP PC. Kon-Boot is reported to also reset Windows 7 passwords but I was not able to make it work on two different Windows 7 PCs.

Conclusion

These free Windows password reset software can work, but they're not perfect. If you still can't reset your forgotten Windows password with these tools, we recommend you to try this professional Windows password reset software - Reset Windows Password. It's worth a try!

How to Reset Forgotten Windows Password with Linux Boot CD

Forgot Windows password and cannot log in to your machine? If you have a Windows password reset disk, you should be okay. If not, you might have to turn to Linux boot CD for help. System Rescue CD is one of the most popular Linux live CDs for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. If you are a little more technical you can use it to reset forgotten Windows password easily.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to reset forgotten Windows password with Linux boot CD.

Reset Forgotten Windows Password with Linux Boot CD

1. Just download a copy of the System Rescue CD and burn the ISO image to a blank CD using your favorite CD/DVD burning software.

2. Boot your locked computer from the Linux CD that you created. You may have to go into the BIOS settings to change the boot order to set CD/DVD as the first boot device.

3. The boot CD will take you to the command prompt. The first thing you need to do is mount the hard drive using this command:
ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows –o force

4. Typing the following command to change your current directory into the Windows/System32/config directory:
cd /mnt/windows/Windows/System32/config

5. Use the chntpw command to list out all user accounts in your Windows installation.
chntpw –l SAM

6. Now you can reset forgotten Windows password for any user account. For example, I want to reset password for an account called geek, so I run this command:
chntpw –u geek SAM

7. There are many options you can do with the account. Here we type "2" at the command prompt and enter a new password. Press "y" to save your changes. At this point your password has been reset successfully.

8. Run the reboot command to restart the computer. Take the CD out of the drive and you can then log in to your computer with the new password.

This method can work, but it's not perfect. If you run into a bug or error, and since the software runs by booting into a Linux environment, troubleshooting can be particularly tough if you don't know much about Linux. If you are a PC beginner, it's highly recommended to use Reset Windows Password utility.

How to Reset Windows 7 Administrator Password By Yourself

Lost or forgot Windows 7 administrator password? This is the most common problem that Windows 7 users are usually confronted with. How to deal with it so that you can log back into your administrator account? Even if you don't have to reset a forgotten password now, you should get acquainted with this issue. I must admit that I managed to forget my password more than once. Here I'm going to show you 2 easy ways to reset Windows 7 administrator password, so you can log on your computer when you forgot the admin password.

Method 1: Use Other Administrator Account

If you can still log on to an account with administrator privileges, it's very easy to reset the password for any other user account, including the administrator account. Please follow these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel and click on the User Accounts and Family Safety, then click on User Accounts.
2. In the next window, click on the Manage another account link, you'll see a list of Windows accounts.
3. Select the administrator account that you want to remove the password for.
4. Click on Remove the password link, it will blank your forgotten administrator password immediately.

This method enables you to reset Windows 7 administrator password without using any software. But it requires you to log on through another admin account.

Method 2: Reset Windows 7 Administrator Password with Software

If you forgot Windows 7 password and can't log on to your computer with any administrator account, you need to create a Windows password reset disk which enables you to reset Windows 7 administrator password quickly and easily.

1. Download the self-extracting Zip file of Reset Windows Password package.
2. Unzip the download file, there is an ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso. Burn it onto a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc or any CD/DVD burning software you like.
3. Boot your locked computer from the Windows password reset disk.
4. Wait until the boot process is complete. When a window pops up with all your Windows accounts, select the administrator account and then click the Reset Password button.
5. It will reset Windows 7 administrator password immediately.

Next, take out the Windows password reset disk and restart the computer. You can then log into administrator account without being asked for a password.