How to Reset Windows Password

Resetting Windows password is a useful task if you have forgotten your login detail. It could happen easily. If you have another administrator user on that computer this task will be simplified for you. Otherwise you will have to do little extra work to achieve your goal. This article is for education purposes and to be used in the case you forgot your password.

Using a different User

You can use any administrator user to reset password for other users (even other administrators). First you should make sure your user is administrator. Therefore click on start -> type "CMD" -> right click on CMD and press "a" on your keyboard. This will try to run the program as an administrator. If the Windows opened up a new Window with "yes" or "no" options, click on "yes". If you were denied access to this task please follow the second option.

Now type the following:

· "Net user": Shows you the list of users.

· "Net user [targeted username] *": This command will allow you to change the targeted username password. Remember that the capitalization of the usernames matter. In addition do not include the brackets.

· Now type your password. Remember everything you type will be inputted but noting is visible. Do not worry about it.

· Retype password and then you are done. You can login into the targeted user with new password.

Using Rescue Disk Trinity

In this method you will be using third party software to crack the Windows password and change it. You can download this software from this website. You should burn this program onto a CD or put it on a bootable USB. Restart the Windows and boot this program up. In the first you will be given options to change administrator password however you might need to change the password of a specific user.

Enter the command line and follow these steps:

· Type "winpass -u [targeted username]". Again brackets are not required.

· Type "1" and hit [ENTER]

· Now you can either enter a new password for that user or leave a blank password. Therefore type "*" and hit [ENTER] to remove the password.

· If it asked you "Do you really wish to change the password?" Type "Y" and press [ENTER].

· Type "init 0" to shut down the trinity rescue disk and boot up the Windows again.

You can use this program to perform more advanced tasks however they are beyond the scope of this article. If you wish to know more about this program read the documentation. In addition this software is free; therefore never make payments to anyone trying to sell it unless they wanted to charge for the CD. Furthermore more you can also perform more tasks using CMD to restrict users. For example you can put time limit for users therefore they can only login within a specific time period of the week.

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