How do you recover Windows 7 forgotten admin password no disk available?

Answer 1

1. Recover Windows 7 forgotten admin password with administrator

• Click Start and open Control Panel, select User Accounts and Family Safety - User Accounts.
• Press Add or remove user account under User Accounts, you will see all enabled accounts listed there. Choose one administrator you want to recover its password.
• And then click Change the password or Remove the password.

Type new password for administrator and confirm it or click remove password to make the account's password blank.

2. Recover Windows 7 Admin Password with Installation CD

What you should prepare first is a Windows installation CD.

<1> Insert it into Windows 7 computer and set computer boot from it.

<2> Select Repair Windows and get into Command Prompt.

<3> Recover Windows 7 password with commands

Type these:

copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\

copy /y c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

Exit installation CD, and reboot your PC.

<4> Reset Windows 7 password

While Windows login screen appears, press the Shift key 5 times to bring up the command line interface. Now type net user your name your new password.

For example, net user isunshare 12345. That means that password of account isunshare is set as 12345.

Tips: At last, you have to use the command c:\sethc.exe file back to c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe to restore the original sethc.exe file.

3. Get into Windows 7 with free Ophcrack

• First, get Ophcrack Vista free live cd.
• Second, boot your computer from the CD from Ophcrack live cd
• Third, recover Windows 7 password

You will see Ophcrack runs and finds Windows 7 password automatically for you. But if your forgotten password contains any characters, the Windows forgotten admin password would not be found.

5. Reset Windows 7 forgotten password with Windows Password Genius.

Windows Password Genius can make up the shortage of Ophcrack. It would reset any complex password for any user accounts.

<1> you have to get it on available computer to create a password reset disk with bootable USB or CD/DVD ROM.

<2> plug password reset disk into locked Windows 7 computer.

If you create reset disk with USB, you have to boot computer boot from USB. In a word, you have to boot computer from password reset disk.

<3> When you see Windows Password Genius program runs in Windows 7 computer, select Windows system and administrator you have forgotten password. And then click "Reset Password".

At last, just reboot computer and exit password reset disk from computer. You would find you don't need any password to login into Windows 7.

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