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How to Recover Password Lost in Windows Vista
Forgot password in windows vista system? How to recover it then? Windows Vista provides another method to ercover windows vista password that’s forgotten by using “”Reset Disk”". If you created a Password Reset Disk in past, you can use that disk to recover Windows Vista password as follows.
Step 1: Start Windows and click your username when you get to the Windows logon screen. Type the password wrongly.
Step 2: Press Enter and you will see the error message about “Did you forget your password?
Step3: Click use a windows vista password reset disk. The Password Reset Wizard starts. Then follow the instructions and reset a new password.
But this method requires you have created a password reset disk before you forgot Windows Vista password. You can create one as the below steps.
1. Single-click Start menu, Control Panel, and User Accounts.
2. Click your user account name.
3. Under Related Tasks on the left, click “Prevent forgotten password” to launch the wizard.
5. Using command prompt to enter Safe Mode.
If you don’t reset the default admin password before, you can recover password windows vista through this way.
Besides, you can reset password windows vista with pressing F8. And following this: Press F8 when your Windows Vista PC is booting. You will come to the Advanced Boot Options. Then choose Safe Mode with Command Prompt and enter safe mode with the default admin account. Type “net user” and press Enter. The command prompt will show you all accounts on the Windows Vista PC. Type “net user mike124″ (mike is the locked admin account’s name and 888 is the new password) and press Enter. Now you have successfully reset windows vista password on the locked admin account.
In this busy society, it’s possible for you to lost Windows vista password, especially after you have just created a new one, or you haven’t used the computer for a long time, or maybe someone has changed your password. When that happens, you need to recover your password. How to reset windows vista password easily and fast then? You would need windows password recovery software.
Ophcrack is an open source program that can recover Vista password in a free way, which is based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. Just log in to a computer and download the tool from the website and follow it’s instructions to recover windows vista password. And Windows Login Recovery also works great in this situation, which can reset password windows vista without damaging any data and there is no limitation of windows system or password length at all.
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