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How to Change Windows Server 2008 Password When Forgot

How to change administrator or user password on Windows server 2008? It muist be in two situations:

1. Do you know the original password? If you remember the password you can change it easily. Logon that user, press ctrl+alt+delete, click chagne the password option, type a new password and confirm.

2. If the password is unknown, how to do?

There are some simple methods can help change your forgotten password, but most of them have limitations. Now let's see how these methods works.

Method One: Change Windows Server 2008 Login Password by Using Another User Admin Account

If you have another user account which has admin rights, you can change any server 2008 user account password with CMD. Replace user password without losing data.

1. Logon Windows server 2008 with an user account which has admin privileges.

2. Click Start, type CMD.EXE in the Run Box, press Enter.

3. A Command Line screen appears, type Net User, User Name, New Password. And press Enter key.

Method: Change Windows Server 2008 Password with Password Reset Disk

If Windows server 2008 works on a work group, not on a domain, people can create a Windows server 2008 password reset disk for free to prevent password lost. If you have one, you can use it to change your password within one minutes.

1. On the login screen, onece you logon your user account failed, there will be a password reset link under the password box.

2. Insert your Windows server 2008 password reset disk and click the link. A password reset wizard appears, then follow the wizard to change the password.

Method Three: Use A Professional Windows Password Recovery Tool to Change A Forgotten Password

Here I will show you how to change Windows Server 2008 administrator password(include local and domain password) with an universal Windows password recovery software, "Windows Password Reset Advanced". By this way, you can easily change any password without limitation.

Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Reset Advanced on "anther computer". Run the software to create a Windows password recovery disk with CD/DVD or USB.

Step 2: Insert the disk to your locked computer, set the computer to boot from CD/DVD or USB.

Start your locked computer and press BIOS entry key as soon as possible to get into the BIOS SETUP table, change the devices boot order, After you saving the change, your computer will restart automatically and boot from your recovery disk.

Step 3: Reset Windows server 2008 administrator password by a few cliks.

After booting from your Windows password recovery disk, Windows Password Reset Advanced will start automatically and you will see a friendly interface.

1. Select Windows Server 2008 from the first list.
2. Click administrator from the user list. All user accounts of your Windows will be listed.
3. Click Reset Password button and click Yes when a confirm dialog pops up, The password will be changed to Asunsoft@2012 by default..
4. Click Reboot. When a cinfirm dialog pops up, eject Windows password recovery disk, and click Yes to restart your computer then you can login Windows server 2008 administrator with new password.