How to Retrieve or Reset your Lost Windows Password

Link: How to Retrieve or Reset your Lost Windows Password. I hesitated for a moment with this post, because I don't want to help hackers or other bad persons to break into your machine. However, this information is freely available on the web, so the cat is out of the bag anyway. As I grow older, and my passwords proliferate, I sometimes find myself forgetting my logon password for Windows XP. Each succeeding iteration of Windows makes it more difficult to access a computer (this is a good thing); however, I support over a dozen computers at my office and home, and it is next to impossible to remember all the passwords. This has proven to be a real problem when I try to access my server from the road, and the screensaver has put up the logon screen. I use strong passwords (combinations of letters and numbers), so they are difficult to keep track of. This little video will give you some tips that might help you in such a situation. If all else fails, and you have imaged your drive using Norton Ghost or similar software, you can always reinstall Windows from your CD or DVD drive, and restore the data files. Don't restore the image, because that will recreate the password block. Once the data files and documents are reinstalled, you can reinstall the applications from the CDs or the Net.

Comments

[Claudio Criscione]

Nice tip, but if you don't know the admin password you can use the Live CD (a cd you can boot from) from ophcrack. Yet, if your password is a good one ophcrack won't help you. You can reset the password using this : http://home.eunet.no/%7Epnordahl/ntpasswd/

:D Hope to help

Claudio from oversighting.com