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Helpful Methods on How to Recover Windows 7 admin Password
If you use Windows 7 as your operating system, you can set up several usernames and passwords on your computer. If you forgot windows 7 login password, you would know forgetting a password is a frustrating experience, particularly when that password is all that's keeping you from all of your important files. you will need to download third party software to reset Windows 7 login password.
Windows Login Recovery is efficient Windows password recovery software designed to recover Windows 7 admin password for any version of Windows, including Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, 2008. It is not necessary for you to reinstall the system when you forgot or lost your Windows login password. But a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive and an available computer with optical drive is required before starting to perform Windows 7 login password recovery.
Windows 7 provides 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 recover Windows 7 login password as follows.
Step1: Start Windows and click your username when you get to the Windows logon screen. Type the password wrongly.
Step2: Press Enter and you will see the error message about “Did you forget your password?”
Step3: Click use a 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 7 admin 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.
In addition to reset windows 7 admin password with password reset disk, you can also recover Windows 7 password on safe mode. And the presupposition is that you have can log on computer with another Windows 7 administrator account.
Ophcrack is an open source program that recovers passwords 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 downlod the tool from the website and follow it’s instructions on how to recover windows 7 administrator password.
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