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How to Recover and Reset Password in windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2K/NT for Free
Forgetting your Windows administrator login password. With no way to
get into the system, you can’t even perform basic maintenance, let
alone a thorough tune-up. Formatting is always an option, but we
consider that a last resort. (Plus, guess who’s going to have to help
reinstall all the programs lost after a wipe?) But all hope is not
lost. There are a few ways to actually retrieve a lost Wi
indows account
password. Read on, and we’ll show you the light.
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.
If you sure that you had completely no idea what your password is, then keep trying these methods.
Method 1: Take a rest
Sometimes, human being is a little weird. You won’t get the thing
that you urgently need. So have a coffee, take a snap or even come back
after a few days, you may found that you suddenly ‘remember’ your
Windows password.
Method 2: Reset password with RESET DISK if you made before.
Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to
recover forgotten 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:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305478
Method 3: Reset password from another administrator account
If you cannot log on to Windows by using a particular user account,
but you can log on to another account that has administrative
credentials, follow these steps on how to do the trick:
1. Log on to Windows by using an administrator account that has a
password that you remember. You may need to start WinXP in safe mode.
2. Click Start, and then click Run.
3. In the Open box, type “control userpasswords2?, and then click OK.
4. Click the user account that you forgot the password for, and then click Reset Password.
5. Type a new password in both the New password and the Confirm new password boxes, and then click OK.
Method 4: TRY command prompt about password reset trick
1. Log in with any valid account.
2. Bring up the command prompt.
Type: net user
You get a list of accounts
Type: net user Administrator *
Type: net user (any account on that list) *
3. It prompts for a password. Enter one, then enter it again when prompted to confirm.
Now, try to log on as ‘Administrator’ with your new password.
* Please note that this might not work on a LIMITED account
.
Method 5: Make third party recovery tool yourself(free)
There are a lot of tools and utilities that can be downloaded and
used to recover, reset, retrieve or reveal existing password. These windows password recovery utilities,
free or paid, are usually a Linux boot disk or CD that able to comes
with NT file system (NTFS) drivers and software that will read the
registry and rewrite the password hashes, or can brute force crack the
password for any user account including the Administrators. The
advantage is that there is no fear of leaking your password to
outsiders, while the process requires physical access to the console
and a floppy or CD drive, depending on which tool you choose. And it’s
not easy, although it always work!
Below is the most famous free recovery tool I found:
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor –This is
a utility to reset the password of any user that has a valid (local)
account on your NT system. You do not need to know the old password to
set a new one. It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your
computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. It’ll detect and offer to
unlock locked or disabled out user accounts. It is also an almost fully
functional registry editor.
HOMEPAGE: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Ophcrack – Ophcrack is a free Windows password
cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation
of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a
Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.
HOMEPAGE: http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
Method 6: Make a Wish!
If it doesn’t work above, I hope that you have some hacker friends.
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