We all forget our passwords. Considering most of us seem to have about 10 unique passwords these days, its not all that suprising. Once you have reset your password, please consider reading how to create a password recovery disk so you cannot forget it again. I have put how to create a recovery disk below the how to reset your password.

(Tip: If you are on a domain and have forgotten your password you will have to contact your system administrator. He in turn will reset your password)

If you are not part of a domain then you can change/remove your password by logging on as an administrator and then taking the following steps:

Reset / Remove Password

• Start > Control Panel > Local Users And Groups >Users

• Right click on account that you are changing or removing password for

• Either remove password or type the new password

Hopefully this will have solved your problems. If not and you really must retrieve a password then you could use a windows password cracker such as Ophcrack.

Creating a password reset disk

• Start > Control Panel.

• Click User Accounts> Family Safety link.

• User Accounts link.

• Click Create password reset disk (its in the window on the left)

• Click Next

• Insert a floppy disk or a flash multi media device

• Click create password disk > portable media drive >continue

• Enter your current password

• Next > Finish

Done. Remove your Disk/Flash device and keep safe for when you forget your password.

If you forget the administrator password and don’t have a password reset disk or another administrator account, you won’t be able to reset the password. If there are no other user accounts on the computer, you won’t be able to log on to Windows and will need to re-install Windows.

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