Note: PCLoginNow is a nice freeware but it doesn’t work with Windows 8 and it runs on CD only. If you need to reset Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 password with CD/USB drive, I recommend you to use PCUnlocker.

How to Bypass Windows 7/Vista/XP Login Password with PCLoginNow?

To get started you need to download PCLoginNow from the developer’s website. The download is in the form of a single file named PCLoginNow_Full.exe. Double-click on the exe file to extract the ISO image: PCLoginNow_Full.iso.

Burn the ISO image to a blank CD or DVD using ImgBurn, BurnCDCC or your favorite CD/DVD burning software. After that, go to the computer that you’re trying to gain access to and insert the CD into optical drive disc tray, and boot up computer from the CD to start and run PCLoginNow automatically. Normally, user is required to press any key on BIOS boot screen to boot from CD. If you don’t see this message, or cannot boot from CD, change the boot device priority or sequence list in BIOS to make CD/DVD drive comes on top.

Once PCLoginNow begins to load, the first screen you’ll see is boot mode option. Type 1 and press Enter to get it to boot in normal mode. The next thing you’ll see is several lines of text that quickly run down the screen. You don’t need to do anything here.

After the initial startup of your computer and loading of Linux is complete, the wizard of PCLoginNow program should display. Simply click the Next button. However, the mouse might doesn’t work, so you have to use the arrow key on the keyboard to move the focus to the Next button, and then press Enter key.

The next screen PCLoginNow will display the operating systems that have been recognized by itself. Choose a single operating system installation you wish to bypass the login password for and click Next.

Choose a user account, PCLoginNow will display the properties of your selected user account. To reset the password, select the check boxes for “password is empty” and “password never expire” to remove the existing login password.

Exit the PCLoginNow program and restart your computer. Remove the CD and the system will boot normally from your local hard drive. You can then log on Windows by leaving password field blank.

I just came back from vacation and I totally forgot the administrator password to log into Windows 7 on my new laptop. I am the only account set up and cannot remember the login. Is there any way to unlock my computer by recovering or resetting the Windows login password?

Forgot your Windows administrator password and can’t bypass the logon screen? Have you tried all possible passwords but the login dialog keeps saying that you’ve entered a wrong password? It is really frustrated if you’ve lost your Windows password. Some users have gone as far as reformatting their hard drives and reinstalling the operating system, simply because of a forgotten password. In most cases, it’s not necessary to go to such extremes. You can regain access to your computer in a number of ways. In this tutorial we’ll show you several well-known methods which you can use to reset lost administrator password from Windows login screeen.

Method 1: Reset Lost Admin Password with the Hidden Administrator Account

This method includes the first thing which should do whenever you forget your Windows login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you forget your user account password then try this:

1. Start your computer and when you see Windows Welcome screen / login screen, press ctrl + alt + del key combination twice and it’ll show you the Classic Login box.
2. Type Administrator in Username and leave Password field blank. Press Enter and you should be able to log in to Windows.
3. Now you can reset your account password by accessing the Control Panel -> User Accounts.

You can also log in to the hidden administrator account from Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this hidden Administrator account on the login screen.

Method 2: Reset Lost Admin Password with Password Reset Disk

The easiest way to reset a forgotten Windows password is to use a previously created password-reset disk. You can create such a disk on USB removable media within the Windows User Accounts menu by opening the Windows Control Panel, selecting User Accounts, and clicking “Create a password reset disk” in the left pane. But you will have the foresight to create a password reset disk before you forget password. Once you have the disk, you can reset lost admin password easily by following the steps below:

1. Once you’ve typed the wrong password in the login screen, Windows will show a “Reset password” link below the login box.
2. Make sure you already have the password reset disk inserted at this point, then click on the “Reset password” link.
3. Follow the instructions in the Password Reset wizard. This will allow you to create a new password.

After that you should be able to log in to Windows with the new password. You can use the same password reset disk any time you need to reset your lost admin password.

Method 3: Reset Lost Admin Password with A Boot CD

If the methods above can’t help you out, the last resort is to use a bootable password cracking CD to reset your lost Windows user password. Reset Windows Password is a recovery utility which runs from a bootable CD/USB drive and enables you to reset forgotten Windows 8/7/Vista/XP admin password easily. Here we’ll explain how to create a bootable CD and then use it to reset your password.

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility on an alternate PC. Unzip the download file which contains a bootable ISO image.
2. Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using ISO2Disc, BurnCDCC or ImgBurn software.
3. Boot your locked computer from the boot CD, then wait for the OS inside the CD to load.
4. After the Reset Windows Password program opens up, choose your administrator account and then click on “Reset Password” button.
5. It will remove your lost admin password in no time.

Remove the boot CD and restart your computer. When you reach the Windows login screen, left the password blank and you can then log in to your administrator account successfully.

Option 1: How to Login to Windows without Password If You Remember the Password

Every time Windows is started it asks you to select the username and enter the password to access your system, there is no doubt that it is a very important security measure, but what if you are the only user of your system? In windows 8/7/Vista/XP, you can easily get rid of the login prompt window, go through the following steps to achieve it.

1. Press Windows + R key combination to bring up the Run box. Type netplwiz or control userpasswords2and press Enter. The User Accounts dialogue box will be displayed as shown in following screenshot.

   

2. Uncheck the box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”, and then hit Apply. You’ll see a username and password box. Enter in the appropriate information here and hit OK:

   

3. That’s all, now reboot your system and you will never see the login window any more.

Option 2: How to Login to Windows without Password If You Forgot the Password

Can’t log into Windows and forgot your password? Are you always getting the error message that the password is wrong or incorrect on the logon screen? There is an easy way to login to Windows 8/7/Vista/XP without password using a password recovery software. Reset Windows Password utility allows you to remove lost or forgotten Windows login password quickly and easily! Let’s have a look how it works:

1. Download the bootable CD image of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternate computer. After the download is complete, extract the ISO file from the Zip archive using WinZip, 7zip or WinRAR.
2. Burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD using BurnCDCC, CDBurnerXP or other burning program you prefer.
3. Simply insert the boot CD into the computer that you can’t login to and restart it. Change the boot order in BIOS to have the computer to boot from the CD drive.
4. When the computer boots from the CD, it will load the WinPE operating system and open up the Reset Windows Password program inside the boot CD.

   

5. Choose a user account whose password is forgotten or unknown, and click “Reset Pasword” button. It will remove/blank the login password in just a matter of seconds.
6. Now take out the CD and restart the computer. You can then successfully login to Windows without typing a password.

Note that all these steps work perfectly on Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP, including both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

Reset Windows Password utility is capable of running from a CD or USB drive. Just get your locked computer to boot from the CD/USB drive and the password cracking tool inside the CD/USB enables you to reset lost or forgotten Windows login password quickly and easily. It supports Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server operating system.

Here we’ll walk you through the entire process of creating a password cracking Live CD and using it to reset lost or forgotten Windows login password. If you’re a little nervous, it might help to take a look at this entire step-by-step guide before you actually get started.

How to Reset Lost or Forgotten Windows Login Password?

1. Since you obviously can’t access your computer right now because you don’t know the password, you need to use a secondary computer to create a password cracking Live CD. Download the Reset Windows Password utility and save it onto that computer.
2. Once downloaded, extract the ISO file from the ZIP file. Feel free to do this using the integrated tool in Windows or a dedicated program like WinZip.
3. Burn the ISO file to a blank CD or DVD using your favorite CD/DVD burning program. If you don’t have one, you can use BurnCDCC or ISO2Disc program. If the ISO file is not burned correctly, the password cracking Live CD will not work at all.
4. After the password cracking Live CD is created, go to the computer that you are resetting the password on. Insert the Live CD into your optical drive and then restart your computer. Make sure that you have configured your BIOS to boot from CD before your hard drive. Otherwise, the CD won’t get boot up.
5. The booting process will take a while. Once it’s done loading up, you should see the Reset Windows Password program, which will display all of the Windows user accounts that it has found on your computer.
6. Choose the user account with a lost or forgotten password, and then click on Reset Password button. The program will unlock/enable that user account and clear/blank its password immediately.
7. Remove the password cracking Live CD from your optical drive and restart the computer. You’ll finally get to log into Windows without entering a password!

Reset Windows Password utility is not designed to recover/find your original Windows login password, because Windows login password is encrypted using some very strong encryption algorithms and the time in order to crack a password is usually unacceptable. But this program can overwrite/blank your lost or forgotten Windows login password in just a matter of seconds!

In this tutorial we’ll show you the most efficient and easiest way to unlock Windows XP login password using a password unlocker boot CD. Just create such a boot CD in another computer, then boot your locked Windows XP computer from the CD and you can remove your forgotten login password easily.

How to Unlock Windows XP Login Password?

1. Before getting started, you need to prepare a password unlocker boot CD. Just download the Reset Windows Password software onto an alternative computer. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll get the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file. Burn this ISO image to a blank CD using any CD recording program such as BurnCDCC.

2. Power on your locked Windows XP computer and boot it into BIOS. Change the boot order so the computer will boot from CD prior to hard drive. Once the boot order is configured correctly, insert the password unlocker boot CD into the computer. It will load the operating system inside the CD.

3. After a while, the system will fire up the Reset Windows Password program. It automatically detects the SAM registry hive on your computer and shows a list of Windows user accounts.

4. Choose a user account whose password needs to be unlocked, and click on Reset Password button. The program will remove the user login password in a matter of seconds.

Restart the computer and take out the password unlocker boot CD, the computer will start normally from your hard drive. You can then log in Windows XP system without being required to enter a login password. Done!

What you need to do is download the software onto an alternative computer and create a password removal CD. Boot the target computer from the CD and it enables you to remove Windows login password easily.

How to Remove Windows Login Password Which You Have Forgotten?

1. Download Password Recovery Bundle and save it onto an alternative computer. Install the software on the computer.

2. Start Password Recovery Bundle program and click on Windows Password button. This will bring up a new dialog which allows you to create a bootable password removal CD ( You can create a password removal USB drive if your computer doesn’t come with a CD/DVD-ROM ).

3. Set your locked computer to boot from the password removal CD. To boot from the CD-ROM drive, you may need to press a key such as F8 or F12 while your computer is starting up and set CD/DVD as the first boot device in BIOS.

4. After the CD boots, you will have a mini operating system loaded into memory which will launch Reset Windows Password utility. It will not install anything to your hard drive.

5. Click on the Reset Windows Local Admin/User Password option, the program will automatically detect the Windows SAM registry hive and local user accounts existing in your local computer.

6. Choose the use account whose password you want to remove, and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your forgotten Windows login password in a short time.

Take out the password removal CD and restart the computer, you’ll be able to login without a password. It’s essential to keep a password removal CD on hand for emergency situations, which allows you to remove Windows 8/7/Vista/XP login password quickly and easily.

The first option is to use Ophcrack. This is a Windows password cracking tool that reads the NT/LM hashed (encrypted) copies of the passwords from the system, and then uses dictionary and/or brute force methods to find the password that matches the hash. The stronger the password (the longer it is, whether it uses random letters and numbers or words and names) the longer this will take.

The second option is to use Reset Windows Password utility. If you have lost the administrator password and are unable to log in to the computer at all then you must reset the password to something known. This is achieved by booting the computer from a bootable CD/USB and remove the login password as blank. Here are detailed steps:

How to Recover Windows Login Password?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.

2. Insert the bootable CD/USB drive into the target computer with a forgotten administrator password. Power on the computer and set it to boot from CD or USB, not your local hard drive.

3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the CD/USB drive, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.

4. Choose a user account and then click on Reset Password button, it will remove your Windows login password immediately.

5. Remove the bootable CD or USB drive. Restart the computer and you can then log in to Windows with a blank password.

With Reset Windows Password utility you can easily recover Windows login password for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server 2008/2003/2000.

Reset Windows Password is the powerful password reset bootdisk which comes with the ability of resetting login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP. Using the boot disk to remove a login password is much easier than re-installing Windows. No need to take your PC to a computer repair shop or call a technician to your home to fix the issue for you. You can reset forgotten Windows login password on your own.

How to Reset Login Password in Windows 7/Vista/XP?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
2. Insert the bootdisk you’ve created into the target computer whose login password you want to reset. Power on the computer and set it to boot from your bootdisk instead of the local hard drive.
3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the bootdisk, it will open up the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.
   
4. Choose a user account and then click on Reset Password button, it will reset your login password immediately.

The last step is remove the bootdisk and restart the computer. You’ll find that you can log in to your desired account with a blank password. Additionally, you can use the same bootdisk to reset login password for domain user accounts in Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. I think every system/network administrators should have a copy of the password reset bootdisk in their toolbox.

How to Reset Windows Login Password on Windows 7/Vista/XP:

1. Download the Reset Windows Password utility from this link: http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html. Unzip the download file. After you unzip it, there is an ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso, which is what you need to burn.
2. Burn the ISO image file to a blank CD or USB drive using the ISO2Disc utility. Here we’re going to use CD to create a password reset disk.
3. Now we need to set your locked computer to boot from CD. Turn on the computer. Normally, the BIOS screen tells you the keyboard key you need to press to enter into BIOS Setup Utility. On most computers is Del, F2, F9 or F12 but yours might be different, so watch out for that on the boot-up menu.
4. After entering into BIOS, set CD/DVD as the 1st boot device so you can boot off the CD; or set Removable Device as the 1st boot device if you want to boot from USB drive.
5. Once your computer boots from the CD, it will load the Windows PE operating system on your CD.
6. After one or two minutes, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program.
   
7. Select the Windows SAM registry file for your desired Windows installation if there is more than one. The program will list all your Windows user accounts.
8. Choose a user account and then click Reset Password button. It will remove your forgotten Windows login password instantly.

Restart your computer in normal mode and eject the CD. Now you should be able to log in to your Windows user account without entering a password. The procedure is very simple that even computer novices can follow to reset Windows login password on Windows 7/Vista/XP. Never need to worry about losing your important files when you forgot Windows login password.

There are many occasions when you might forget Windows password, or the administrator account is locked out as you mistype your password too many times. This happens more often than we would think! How to recover Windows administrator password if you forgot the password and can’t login.

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to recover Windows administrator password without logging in. The recovery procedure can be divided into 3 steps generally.

Step 1: Create a Windows Password Recovery CD

First we need to download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility. The software comes as an ISO image file which you have to burn to a CD. It’s also possible to boot from a USB stick. You can create a Windows password recovery CD using any CD burning software you like. If you don’t have one, you can use this freeware: ISO2Disc.

Step 2: Set Locked PC to Boot from CD

To make your locked computer boot from a CD, you need to change the boot sequences in your computer’s BIOS:  move CD-ROM at the top of any other boot devices. The computer will try to boot off a CD or DVD before your hard drive.

Step 3: Recover Windows Administrator Password

Put the Windows password recovery CD in the CD drive of your locked computer. Restart the computer and it will load the Windows PE operating system in the CD. After a while, the Reset Windows Password program will launch, which shows all Windows SAM registry hives and Windows user accounts available in your computer.

Select the Administrator account and then click Reset Password button. The program will remove your forgotten password instantly, also unlock the account if it is disabled or locked out.

Restart the computer and remove the Windows password recovery CD, you can successfully log in your Windows system without being asked for a password.  Keep the CD in a safe place, so even if you forgot the administrator password next time, you can recover Windows password and regain access to your computer using this CD. Enjoy!