How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (2)

In my last article: How toReset Windows 7 Password without Disk (1), I have introduced some most easy and common methods to reset Windows 7 password if have no Windows password reset disk created before. And now in this How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (2), let’s take a deeper look at it.

Method Three: Reset Windows 7 Password with Windows Installation Disk

What you need is a Windows installation CD/DVD. It could be a Windows 7/Vista/XP CD/DVD. Besides using an installation disk to install or reinstall Windows system, it can be used for many other purposes including password reset.

1. Boot Windows 7 computer from the installation disk.

Insert Windows installation CD/DVD into the locked Windows 7 computer and restart it. Press corresponding boot menu key prompted to enter Boot Menu and then select CD-ROM Drive option as the boot device to boot from.

2. Select your target language and click Repair your computer link.

3. Select Command Prompt option to open Command Prompt window.

4. Execute commands to backup sethc.exe file and replace it with cmd.exe file.

Backup the original sethc.exe file with the command: copy d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\ and then press Enter key.

Replace sethc.exe file with cmd.exe file with the command: copy /y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe and then press Enter key.

5. Close the Command Prompt window, exit your installation disk and then reboot your Windows 7 computer.

6. When it comes to the login screen, press Shift key 5 times successively to open Command Prompt as administrator.

7. Reset Windows 7 password with cmd.exe command. Type in the command: net user User-name New-password and press Enter key to reset Windows 7 password. For instance, type net user Asunsoft 123456 if you want to reset the password to the user account Asunsoft to 123456.

8. Then you can log in your Windows 7 computer with the new password. After you log in, remember to restore your replaced sethc.exe file by redoing 1 and 2 to open Command Prompt window again and to replace cmd.exe back with sethc.exe. Or else, it may run certain errors.

Method Four: Reset Windows 7 Password with Ubuntu

Ubuntu, like other Linux operating system, allows you to make an Ubuntu Live CD with which to reset forgotten or lost Windows 7 password without Windows password reset disk created before.

1. Use another computer to download Ubuntu and install it.

2. Burn Ubuntu image file to a CD/DVD to make an Ubuntu Live CD.

3. Transfer the made Ubuntu Live CD to your locked Windows 7 computer, start or restart it. While it starting up, press corresponding key prompted to enter Boot Menu and select CD-ROM Drive option to boot from.

4. When the computer booted from the Ubuntu, you select “Try Ubuntu” option.

5. Click Places menu and then select hard drive for your Windows 7 to load the Windows 7 hard drive to Ubuntu.

6. Expand the folder Windows and then folder System32.

7. Locate the file named Utilman.exe file and rename it as Utilman1.exe.

8. Locate the file named cmd.exe file, right click on it and select Save a copy option and then rename it as Utilman.exe.

9. Now restart your Windows 7 computer.

10. Press Shift key 5 times to open Command Prompt window when it comes to the login screen.

11. In the Command Prompt window, type in the command: net user User-name New-Password to reset your Windows 7 password. For instance, type in the command: net user Asunsoft 123456 if you want to reset the password to the user account Asunsoft to 123456.

12. Now you have reset your Windows 7 password successfully and can login it without password.

There are other more ways to reset Windows 7 password without Windows password reset disk. Please add other ways you know to make it as complete as possible for our Windows 7 users.

How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (1)

So far, Windows 7 is still estimated the Operating system owns the most users around the world. You must have been very familiar with Windows 7 system already, but I bet you may still be stunned when you know that there could be so various ways to reset Windows 7 password when without disk.

As well-known, password reset disk created from Control Panel is the easiest and most convenient way to reset Windows 7 password if users forgot their password, but unfortunately many users take it for granted. Now let’s suppose that you didn’t have created a password reset disk for your Windows 7, then how to reset Windows 7 password without disk? Here I make a list for you. Open your eyes and pick the one you interested.

Method 1: Reset Windows 7 Password via Accessible Administrator Account

If you forgot your Windows 7 password, but you can access to any administrator account, then so lucky you are. You can have the following options: 

Option 1 of 4: Reset Windows 7 Password from Control Panel 

1.      Log in to that accessible administrator account.

2.      Enter Control Panel by clicking Start button and then selecting Control Panel.

3.      Select User Accounts and Family Safety, then further User Accounts option.

4.      Choose Manage another account option on Make changes to your user account interface.

5.      Select the user account you are going to reset its password.

6.      Select Change the password or Remove the password option.

7.      Input and confirm the new password to reset the forgotten password or just click Remove Password button to remove forgotten password.

Option 2 of 4: Reset Windows 7 Password from Local Users and Groups 

1.      Login to that accessible administrator account. 

2.      Click Start button, input lusrmgr.msc in the search box and press Enter key to open Local Users and Groups window. 

3.      Expand Users folder and you will see all the user accounts on your computer.

4.      Right click on the target user account and select Set Password option. 

5.      Click Proceed button to input and confirm a new password. 

6.      Click OK to save all the changes.

Option 3 of 4: Reset Windows 7 Password from Command Prompt

1.      Login to that accessible administrator account.

2.      Click Start button, input Command Prompt and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys to open Command Prompt as administrator.

3.      Type the command: net user and press Enter key to list all the user accounts on your computer.

4.      Type the command: net user Username NewPassword and press Enter key. Replace Username with the target user account you want to reset its password and NewPassword with the new password you desire.

Option 4 of 4: Reset Windows 7 Password in Safe Mode

1.      Start or restart Windows 7 and press F8 before Windows starts to enter Advanced Options Menu.

2.      Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt option and press Enter key.

3.      When it comes to the login screen, you select the Administrator account to login whose password is blank by default if you didn’t change it.

4.      Now you are in Command Prompt window. Type the command: net user and press Enter to check all the user account on your computer.

5.      Type the command: net user Username NewPassword and press Enter to reset that username’s password. For instance, to reset the password of Asunsoft to 123456 by typing the command: net user Asunsoft 123456.

6.      Close the Command Prompt window and restart your Windows 7 computer when you see the prompt that the command completed successfully.

Method 2: Reset Windows 7 Password with Third-Party Tool

When there are no alternative and available administrator accounts on your Windows 7 computer or you are totally locked out of it, resorting to a third-party tool to reset Windows 7 password is a good choice.

Speaking of third-party tools, there are seas of both free and commercial Windows password recovery tools. Here I will only pick typical one respectively to illustrate. If you are interested, you can explore more by yourself later.

Option 1 of 2: Reset Windows 7 Password with Ophcrack

Ophcrack can be said the best free Windows password recovery tool. It works well on Windows 7/Vista/XP. It comes as iso file and proceeds password recovery automatically. What you have to do is to follow the instructions to do the preludes.

1.      Use another computer to free download the Ophcrack ISO image. Click Download Ophcrack LiveCD button. On the next page, select ophcrack Vista/7 LicveCD to download.

2.      Burn the downloaded Ophcrack ISO image file to an available CD/DVD to create a Windows 7 password recovery disk.

3.      Insert the CD/DVD into your Windows 7 computer and set it boot from the CD/DVD. Start or restart computer, press corresponding boot menu key as soon as possible to enter Boot Menu. When in Boot Menu, select CD/DVD-ROM option as the boot device.

4.      When the computer boots from the Ophcrack password recovery disk, Ophcrack will run automatically and locate and recover the password for all user accounts on your computer.

Note: Under the NT Pwd column

Blank means the password has not been recovered yet.

Empty means that you can log to that account without a password.

5.      When your Windows 7 password recovered successfully, remove the Ophcrack LiveCD disk, restart your computer and then you can log in to your Windows 7 computer again.

 

Tip: There are other highly-recommended free Windows password recovery tools.

Offiline Windows Password & Registry Editor

Option 2 of 2: Reset Windows 7 Password with Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker

To reset Windows 7 password, you can choose Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker (Person/Professional/Advanced) and Asunsoft Windows 7 Password Geeker. Compared with Ophcrack, it is safer, easier and has higher effective rate.

1.      Use another computer to download Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker (Person/Professional/Advanced) or Windows 7 Password Geeker and install it.

2.      Insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk, run the software and follow on-screen instructions to burn it into the USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk.

3.      Transfer the burned USB or CD/DVD disk into your locked Windows 7 computer. Start or restart it, press corresponding boot menu key to enter Boot Menu and select Removable Devices or CD/DVD-ROM option to set it boot from USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk.

4.      The Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker runs automatically when computer booted from the disk. You select the target user account and click Reset Password button to reset its password to Blank.

5.      After the password has been reset to Blank, you click Reboot button. Reject your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and restart your computer. Then you can log in your Windows 7 without a password.

Tip: There are other highly-recommended effective Windows password recovery tools.

Now here in this article, I have listed two most easy and most common way to reset forgotten or lost Windows 7 password when without Windows password reset disk. In the next article, I will introduce several effective methods but may not that well-known to you. To be continued.Look forward to my How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (2).

Create a Password Reset Disk on Windows 8

Windows 8 is the latest Windows system received quite a lot attention. Many more users expect to experience it and give it a try. In this way, it is very risky that users might forget their Windows 8 password one day. Granted that you do forget your Windows 8 login password, there are ways to fix. However, you never have to try hard to find out those possible ways if you know the built-in feature of creating a Windows password reset disk, whose existence is to reset forgotten Windows password in case users may forget Windows password.

And here comes the question that unlike traditional Windows 7/Vista/XP system, Windows 8 has no Start button, so where can users to create a Windows 8 password reset disk? This tutorial aims at guiding you through how to create a Windows 8 password reset disk.

How to Create a Windows 8 Password Reset Disk

1. Log in to the target Windows 8 local user account that you want to create a password reset disk for, one Windows password reset disk is responsible to one user account.

Tip: If there are more than one user accounts, administrator account is recommended.

2. Press Win + F combination key to bring up Search box, here you choose Settings item.

3. You type in User Accounts to search for the results, generally the first one to choose in the results.

4. Click the item User Accounts to enter traditional Control Panel and navigate the User Accounts window. Here you select Create a password reset disk on the left pane.

5. Comes to the Forgotten Password Wizard window. Insert an available USB flash drive and click Next button to go on.

6. Choose your USB drive from the pull down list to confirm it as the right one and then click Next button again.

7. Type in your current user account password and click Next to go on.

8. Wait a short moment and when it prompts completed, click Finish button.

Tip: When you created one Windows 8 password reset disk, please keep it to a relatively safe place in case anyone else holding it can reset your Windows 8 password. Take it out when you forget your Windows 8 password accidentally.

How to Extract Windows 8/8.1 Product Key from Registry

Being asked for product key on the half way through reinstalling your Windows 8 or Windows 8.1? Suddenly be enlightened that you cannot find it or just didn’t put it away. If you have no product key, you may have problems using some functions of Windows 8/8.1 Operating System. What to do?

Gratifying news is that your Windows 8/8.1 product key is stored in system registry and you can extract it out from registry with the aid of certain professional product key finder program. Now in this article recommend two for you to extract Windows 8/8.1 product key from registry.

Extract Windows 8/8.1 Product Key from Registry with Belarc Advisor.

Belarc Advisor is the free system information tool. It can present a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware including software license information. That is, it can help find your product keys or serial number for installed programs.

1. Free download Belarc Advisor and then follow the given instructions to install.

2. Run the installed program and it will prompt you that it will take a few moments to create a profile of your computer just like the following screenshot shows.

3.  After it is 100% finished, it will show as comprehensive information of your computer as possible in a web page partly like the following screenshot. Click Software Licenses link on the left and then it will lead you to find your Windows 8/8.1 information including its product key.

4. Copy and save the displayed Windows 8/8.1 product key exactly to a safe place in the event of you need it again in future.

If this free and easy-to-use program doesn’t work for you somehow, you can take the following one professional product key finder software into consideration which is 100% effective no matter what Windows system you run.

Extract Windows 8/8.1 Product Key from Registry with Asunsoft Product Key Geeker

Asunsoft Product Key Geeker is dedicated and professional to finding product keys for various frequently-used programs including Windows system, Microsoft Office programs, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Exchange Server, VMware, Adobe, etc. It is multifunctional and as easy to operate just as the followings:

1. Search Asunsoft Product Key Geeker at Google. Download  and then install it on your computer.

2. Run the downloaded program and click Start Recovery button on its main interface.

3. Soon it will find out and list information about your installed programs including product key and product ID.

Note: The free trial version will only shows 5 characters of the whole product key. If you have to know the entire product key, the full version of Asunsoft Product Key Geeker will take effect.

Click Save to file to save the extracted product key to a safe location.

The above two introduced programs are both easy to use and effective to help you extract your Windows 8/8.1 product key from Registry. Nice try!