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By: WuLinky
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 Windows
account password. Read on, and we’ll show you the light.
====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====
1.
Reboot your
machine.
2.
Press F8
before the Windows boot screen appears.
o
Do not press
F5 as used on the NT/9x series of Windows.
3.
You will be
be prompted with a boot options menu.
4.
Select the
Start Windows in Safe Mode option.
5.
Click through
several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar 'Welcome'
screen.
6.
Note that
this welcome screen is limited to 256 colors and 640x480 resolution because the
primary graphics will have been set to the Windows Safe Mode software VGA adapter.
You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows
is running in Safe Mode.
7.
Find the icon
for the Administrator user. If the default settings of your system haven't been
changed, there should be no password for this account.
o
The Safe Mode
Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system.
8.
Login as the
admin.
9.
Press Yes at
the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode.
10.
Continue on
to the User Settings control panel. Here you can change any of the other
passwords for user on the machine. Make any changes you want.
11.
Reboot your
computer. As long as you don't press any keys (i.e. F8) during the boot-up the
computer will startup normally.
12.
Login as the
user for which you set the password.
====3rd Method====
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
====4th method====
Comparatively, using windows password reset utility is a reliable and
convenient method for solving the password problem. Normally, the program can
easily reset the password to “Blank” with no -reformatting or installation. Do
all the job for you automatically. Unfortunately,
it is not safe to use some free recovery tool to reset windows password. So
here is the recommend recovery tool：windows password reset 6.0. You can see the
recommendation of PC support here.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/prem-windows-password-recovery.htm
====5th method====
If it doesn't work above ,I hope that you have some hacker friends. Reference resource: http://www.wikihow.com/Log-on-to-Windows-XP-if-You-Forget-Your-Password
