Forgotten Password Workaround?

Timewarpone · 03 Mar 2011

My situation was that the new password I created didn't take and the old one wouldn't work either. I ended up changing the boot sequence in bios to read from the CD/DVD rom. (BIOS was not password protected) I then put in the original windows install disk. I then picked repair instead of install. One of the repair options was "RESTORE" I was then allowed to restore my system to an earlier time. This allowed me to use my old password. WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!!!!!!!

Brink · 03 Mar 2011

That's great news.

Bare Foot Kid · 03 Mar 2011

Timewarpone said:

My situation was that the new password I created didn't take and the old one wouldn't work either. I ended up changing the boot sequence in bios to read from the CD/DVD rom. (BIOS was not password protected) I then put in the original windows install disk. I then picked repair instead of install. One of the repair options was "RESTORE" I was then allowed to restore my system to an earlier time. This allowed me to use my old password. WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!!!!!!!

Hello mate, good to see you got it running; that's the same method outlined in this tutorial at the link below.

Password Reset : Using System Restore in Windows 7

You may now care to create a password reset disk for future need.

Password Reset Disk : Windows 7 / Vista

FRIESIAN · 03 Jan 2012

Hi would like to thank you all here for your forum and the program you linked to for forgotten pw its was a very easy program to use and it was small my other programs were a pain to use once again thank you for all of your hard work that you all put into this site

howie369 · 15 Aug 2018

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello mate, good to see you got it running; that's the same method outlined in this tutorial at the link below.

Password Reset : Using System Restore in Windows 7

You may now care to create a password reset disk for future need.

Password Reset Disk : Windows 7 / Vista

Thanks for your suggestion,

i also have the same issue , this has just started recently. I changed my password for Windows and now every time I turn my computer off and back on it asks for my password. It did not used to do that and I don't want to have to type in a password. No one else uses my computer. It doesn't require a password if I only put it to sleep. Help?

Ranger4 · 15 Aug 2018

Hi howie369, welcome to the Forum.

To change or remove that password open Control Panel & select Users, then select Create a Password for your Account, then where you have a password listed, delete the password & then where is says confirm password delete any words there as well, so that both are blank, so you are confirming no password.

You do of course have to be the Administrator rights to carry out this.

howie369 · 16 Aug 2018

Hello mate, good to see you got it running; that's the same method outlined in this tutorial at the link below.

Password Reset : Using System Restore in Windows 7

You may now care to create a password reset disk for future need.

Password Reset Disk : Windows 7 / Vista

Bare Foot Kic;12c71363 said:

Hi howie369, welcome to the Forum.

To change or remove that password open Control Panel & select Users, then select Create a Password for your Account, then where you have a password listed, delete the password & then where is says confirm password delete any words there as well, so that both are blank, so you are confirming no password.

You do of course have to be the Administrator rights to carry out this.

I mean I was locked out of my windows and I can't access to it. and can't go to control panel.

Ranger4 · 16 Aug 2018

Didn't you write down the new password after you changed it?.

Have you tried what is suggested in the "Password Reset: Using System Restore in Windows 7" tutorial. If you can't get that to work with System Restore then we are unable to assist you any further, as the Forum rules forbid any password hacking or the like. (Rule 6)

Forgotten Password Workaround?

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