One of the best ways to keep your system protected is using password for your User Account. Although face recognition and fingerprint technologies are available in high end notebooks, most of the users still prefer the good old text passwords.
Most of users forget the password especially after they have entered a new password to the user account. Since you might come across this problem at any time, the best possible solution is to create a password reset disk.
Password Reset Disk lets you create a new password when you have forgotten the current password.
Create password reset disk for Windows 7
To create a password reset disk in Windows 7 follow the steps given below:
1. Connect your USB flash drive or floppy disk to the system.
2. Type User Accounts in start menu search field and hit enter to open User Accounts window.
3. In the left pane, click Create a password reset disk to launch the Forgotten Password Wizard.
4. To continue, click next button and then select your USB flash drive or floppy disk. Again, click next button to proceed to the next step.
5. In this step, you need to enter your current User Account password. Just type the password. Make sure that you type the correct password and if the account does not have a password, leave the box blank.
6. Click next to create the password reset disk. Once the process the completed, click next button to finish the procedure.
Note: You can’t use this password reset disk on another Windows 7 machine. Also you need not to create another reset disk after using it to change the password.
If you are on Windows 10, refer to how to create password reset disk on USB in Windows 10.
zhuismile says
I’ve tried a couple of these utilities through the years and my favorite is the windows password key 8.0. This utility is used to reset password of any windows versions.
1. Login to a computer that can link to Internet. Download windows Password key 8.0 and install it on that PC. Note that: there is a .ISO file. Burn the .ISO file to a CD or a USB flash drive.
2. Insert the newly created CD/USB to the locked computer.
3. Reboot the locked computer and press’F2’or’Delete’to enter your BIOS setup and then you will see the instruction as following.
Sam says
Protection to your system can be given by using admin password but if you forget your password in this situation password reset disk will be very useful for you. You can also go with stellar phoenix windows password recovery software to reset your password
fiona says
Usually, we can recover Windows admin password in two traditional ways. The first is to change Windows password with another admin account; the second is to recover the previous password with the windows password reset disk that had been created before you forgot the password. Take Windows XP for example,
1 At the Windows XP login prompt when the password is entered incorrectly click the reset button in the login failed window.
2 Insert the password reset diskette into the computer and click Next.
3 If the correct diskette Windows XP will open a window prompting for the new password you wish to use.
However, we offen ignore the important of security until we have been locked out of computer. Fortunately, there is still the last way that can unlock your computer without reinstalling – erase Windows password with Windows password reset CD, which can recover admin password for Windows 7/XP/Vista/NT/2000/2003…. Take Windows Password unlocker for example, followings are the steps to create the reset CD
1.Download Windows Password Unlocker from Password Unlocker Official site
2.Decompress the Windows password unlocker and note that there is an .ISO image file. Burn the image file onto an blank CD with the burner freely supported by Password Unlocker.
3.Insert the newly created CD into the locked computer and re-boot it from the CD drive.
4.After launched the CD, a window pop up with all your account names(if you have several accounts) select one of the accounts that you have forgotten its password to reset it. Just one press, this software can remove screen password instantly.
Susan says
The fact is that you want to regain access to your computer without formatting or re-installing the operating system. What you need is getting out of this situation, maybe you could use Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0 and have a try. Follow my steps:
Step 1 – Download Windows Password Recovery Tool 3.0
Step 2 -Burn your Windows Password Recovery Tool CD
To burn your CD, you’ll need a blank CD-R and the .ISO file of Password recovery
Step 3 – Put in your newly created CD and remove your Windows password.
Hope it can help.