Best solutions for Password Recovery and Data Recovery
Best solutions for Password Recovery and Data RecoveryContradiction exists everywhere. On one hand, you are recommended to set a secure password or make several simple changes to make your password stronger on the basis of the original password when there are some important data stored in your computer. On the other hand, you may be bothered by forgetting your complex but secure password. Windows password forgetting problems constantly emerges. Then what can you do when Windows password forgetting happens on you? No worry, this article is special topic about Windows password forgetting problem, in which you can learn comprehensive solutions to reset forgotten Windows password.
In fact, if know two effective and handy tips which either can help recall forgotten password or easily help password reset after password forgotten, then password forgetting would not become a trouble for you.
But if password forgetting do happen on you, neither you
Forgot Windows XP password
Forgot Windows 8 password
Forgot Windows 8.1 password
Forgot Windows Server 2008 administrator password
Forgot Windows Server 2012 local or domain password,
6 most easy and practical solutions are provided to solve Windows password forgetting problem, choose one of them which suit you best.
This method is not practicable for Windows Servers for Microsoft doesn’t support Server users to create a Windows password reset disk. But if you forgot Windows 8/7/Vista/XP password and have created a password reset disk before you forgot your password, thanks to yourself for being so forward-looking.
Insert the Windows password reset disk into your computer.
1. Start the computer normally and type in an incorrect password in the login screen.
2. Click OK when it prompts the username or password is wrong.
3. Click Reset password link under the Password box.
4. Click Next button to continue in Password Reset Wizard window.
5. Specify the password reset disk you inserted.
6. Type in the new password and then confirm it.
7. Click Finish button when completed.
If you have no idea of creating a Windows password reset disk just in case password forgetting happens before, then you can refer to How to create a Windows 7 System Password Recovery Disk or How to Create Windows 8 Password Reset Disk with USB if you use Windows 8 operating system.
If there are other accessible user accounts, administrator account or standard user account, you can take full advantage of that.
1. Login the computer with the accessible user account.
2. Right click on Computer icon and click on Manage item to open Computer Management window.
3. Click on Local Users and Groups item on the left.
4. Expand Users folder.
5. Right click on the target user account you forgot its password and choose Set Password item.
6. Type in a new password and then type it again to confirm it.
Safe Mode is a good platform to solve many problems including password forgetting problem by editing commands.
1. Restart your computer and hold down F8 key repeatedly while the computer is starting up.
2. Choose Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Command Prompt option in Windows Advanced Options Menu. Press Enter key.
3. Choose Administrator account to log into.
4. Type in net user and press Enter key to show all the user accounts in your computer.
5. Reset the password to the user account you forgot its password with the command: net user [user name] [new password] and then press Enter. For example you want to change your password to your account Asunsoft to 123456, you type the command like: net user Asunsoft 123456.
Note: If you have further confusions, check whether How to Start Windows in Safe Mode to Reset Windows Password helps you. Or if you use Windows 8 operating system, How to Start Windows 8 in Safe Mode may be helpful for you.
This methods can not only be applied for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP but also for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012.
1. Insert Windows installation disk to your computer and boot from it. Select your language and other preferences and click Next button to continue.
2. Click Repair your computer link.
3. Choose Command Prompt in System Recovery Options.
4. Type in the command: copy d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe d:\ and press Enter key to copy sethc.exe file.
5. After that type in the command: copy / y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe and press Enter to replace sethc.exe file with cmd.exe file.
6. Close Command Prompt window, extract your Windows installation disk and reboot your computer.
7. Press Shift key 5 times in login screen to bring up Command Prompt windows again.
8. Type in the command lusrmgr.msc and press Enter key.
9. Expand Users folder in the Local User and Groups window.
10. Right click on the user account you forgot its password and select Set Password item.
11. Type in a new password and then type again to confirm it. Then click OK button to reset.
Important: After you have solve your Windows password forgetting problem, please remember to restore sethc.exe file.
This methods requires certain computer skills, and if you are quite confident with your computer skills, you can give it a try.
1. Get or Create a Windows PE disk and boot the locked computer from it.
2. Navigate to the directory of Windowssystem32 under the partition C.
3. Change the possessor of magnify.exe and cmd.exe as administrators.
4. Change the authority of manify.exe and cmd.exe to administrator’s full control.
5. Rename manify.exe to manify.exe1 and then rename cmd.exe to manify.exe.
6. Restart your computer and enable Magnify glass.
7. Use the net user command to reset forgotten password. For example reset Asunsoft password to 123456 by typing net user Asunsoft 123456.
This method can help you solve Windows password forgetting problem effectively and easily, no matter you run Windows 8/7/Vista/XP or Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012. It requires no pre-conditions and no computer skills at all without any stodgy commands to execute. It is the easiest one except Solution 1 and Solution 2.
1. Choose one most suitable version of Windows Password Geeker according to your Windows system after version comparisons. And then download and install it on any accessible computer.
2. Insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk in to the computer. Run Windows Password Geeker and choose USB or CD/DVD as the media type to burn a Windows password recovery disk.
Note: The contents in USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk will be formatted so make sure the contents are unimportant or you back up all of them before.
3. Transfer the burned USB or CD/DVD password recovery disk into your locked computer and boot from it. You can learn more details from How to set computer boot from USB flash drive or How to set computer boot from CD/DVD.
4. When your computer boot from the USB or CD/DVD, the password recovery software - Windows Password Geeker in it will start automatically as well. You select the Windows system you run.
5. Then select the target user account you forgot its password. Here take Administrator account for example.
6. Click Reset Password button to reset its password. Click Yes to continue when prompted whether set this user password to blank.
7. When the target user (Administrator) password has been reset as Blank, you click Reboot button to restart your computer. When a prompt message appears, eject your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk first and then click Yes to confirm computer restarting.
When your computer restarts, you can login to your computer without a password and your Windows password forgetting problem has been solved successfully.
