How to Set and Cancel Power-on Password for Dell Laptop

If you have a Dell laptop, it cannot be too careful to set a power-on password for it to guarantee its safety. Now here in this article, we will focus on three means to allow you to set a power-on password for your Dell laptop. Having known how to set a password already, you’d better know how to cancel it meanwhile to avoid unnecessary troubles.

Broadly speaking, power-on password can be divided into three types: Windows login password, system startup password and BIOS password.

Set and Cancel Windows Login Password for Dell Laptop

Windows login password is one of the most commonly adopted and most familiar shields against unauthorized access. It is the easiest to set and cancel just roughly like the followings:

1. Enter Control Panel.

If you run Windows 7/Vista/XP, you click Start button and then select Control Panel.

If you run Windows 8.1/8, you can press Windows + X keys to bring up Start menu and select Control Panel.

2. Click User Accounts and Family Safety link > User Accounts link > Select your target account.

3. Click Create a password link.

4. Input a new password and input again to confirm the new password.

5. Click Create password button to save the changes.

If you want to cancel the Windows login password you set, you can cancel it just similar to you create one.

1. Do as the above 1 and 2 steps.

2. Click Remove the password link.

3. Click Remove Password button in the Remove a password screen.

Set and Cancel System Startup Password for Dell Laptop

System startup password is more secure one to ensure the safety of your system. It will be prompted instantly you power on your Dell laptop before the system can even boot up and load the operating system. Only after you input the correct system startup password, can you enter the Windows login screen and login with the correct user name and login password. Thus, your system has double protection.

1. Open Run box.

Click Start button and choose Run if you run Windows 7/Vista/XP.

Press Windows + R keys simultaneously to open Run box if you run Windows 8.1/8.

2. Type Syskey in the Run box and press Enter key.

3. Click on the Update button in the Securing the Windows Account Database dialog box.

4. Select Password Startup in the Startup Key dialog box. Input a password you decided and confirm it.

 

5. Click OK button to save it.

If you want to cancel the system startup password you set, you can cancel it just similar as you set one.

1. Do as the above 1 – 3 steps first.

2. Select System Generated Password in the Startup Key dialog box.

3. Select Store Startup Key Locally option.

4. Click OK button and input the current system startup password to save the password to the hard drive.

Set and Cancel BIOS Password for Dell Laptop

1. Boot up your Dell laptop and enter BIOS Setup Utility by pressing F2 key.

2. Use arrow key → to choose Security tab in the BIOS Setup Utility screen.

3. Under the Security tab, you are allowed to set two types of BIOS password, Set User Password and Set Supervisor Password respectively.

Supervisor Password controls access to the setup utility, which means that you have to enter this password whenever you are trying to enter BIOS Setup Utility and make any BIOS setting changes.

User Password controls access to the system at boot, which means that you have to enter this password whenever you are trying to start the system.

4. Press Enter key to input a desired Supervisor Password, confirm it and then press Enter key to continue.

Note: Set Supervisor Password option is selected by default, and if you cannot move to Set User Password option, it means that you have to set a Supervisor password first.

5. After you have set a supervisor password, you can move to Set User Password option. Use arrow key ↑ to select Set User Password and press Enter key.

6. Input, confirm your desired User Password and then press Enter key to continue.

Note: When you see that the status of Supervisor Password and User Password changes from Clear to Set. You have set a password for your system at boot successfully.

7. Press F10 key to save the changes and exit the BIOS Setup Utility.

If you want to cancel the two types of BIOS passwords you set, you can cancel them just similar as you set them.

1. Boot up your Dell laptop and press F2 soon and repeatedly to enter BIOS Setup Utility.

2. Enter the Supervisor Password you set when you trying to enter BIOS Setup Utility.

3. Use arrow key → to choose Security tab in the BIOS Setup Utility screen.

4. Select Set User Password or Set User Supervisor Password option and press Enter key.

5. Enter you current password. Later press Enter key twice directly when asked to enter new password and confirm new password.

6. Press Enter key to continue and then you will see the status of Supervisor password or User Password changes from Set to Clear.

7. Press F10 key to save the changes and exit BIOS Setup Utility.

Is There a Default Password for Windows 8 Administrator Account?

I was locked out of Windows 8 because of forgetting password to my only administrator account and hear that there is a built-in administrator account whose password is blank by default. Is that true? Is there really such a default password for Windows 8 administrator account?

The answer is that there is a built-in account for administering but it is disabled and hidden by default. Before you activate it, it has no password. You can set a password for it whenever you activate it.

In this way, if you want to reset your forgotten Windows 8 administrator password via built-in administrator, the premise is that you have activated your built-in administrator account already before you forgot your Windows 8 password.

Activate Windows 8 Built-in Administrator Account

You cannot see the Administrator account from Control Panel and cannot login with it until you activated it. Just in case and for convenience, you can enable and activate it easily as below:

1. Log in your Windows 8.

2. Swipe the mouse cursor to the upper or lower right corner to bring out Charm bar. Click on Search icon, type in cmd in the Search box and press Enter key.

3. Right click on the result to run cmd as administrator.

4. Click Yes button on the User Account Control window.

5. Type in the command: net user Administrator /active: yes and press Enter key to execute.

Similarly, you can type the command: net user Administrator /active: no to cancel the activation.

6. Optionally you can type in the command: net user Administrator 123456 and press Enter to set a password for it.

You can check whether it is activated successfully from Control Panel. And then you can login your Windows 8 with it to reset forgotten administrator or other user account password easily from Control Panel.

If you are trying to reset or recover forgotten Windows 8 administrator password via Windows 8 default blank administrator but unfortunately you haven’t activate it before, there are many Windows password recovery programs can do you a favor, among which Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker is a most professional and reliable one worth your try. You can reset or recover your Windows 8 password roughly like the followings.

1. Use another accessible computer with Internet to get the full version of Windows Password Geeker Advanced and then install it.

2. Run the installed Windows Password Geeker Advanced to create a bootable Windows 8 password reset disk.

• Choose USB device or CD/DVD.
• Insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk correspondingly and then select it from the pull-down list.
•  Click Begin burning button to start burning.

3. Transfer the USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk into your locked Windows 8 computer and set the computer boot from the USB or CD/DVD disk.

• Boot the computer and press Boot Menu key prompted as soon as possible before the start up screen appears to enter Boot Menu.
• Select USB Hard Disk/Removable Devices or CD/DVD-ROM Drive option and press Enter key.

4. Reset or recover forgotten Windows 8 password.

• Select the target user account on your Windows 8 system.
• Click Reset Password button and then click Yes button when a prompt message appears.
• Click Reboot button when you see its password has been reset as Blank. Eject the USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and then click Yes button to confirm restarting when a prompt message appears.

How to Make a Boot Disk for Windows 7

Boot disk allows you to boot into Windows, either to diagnose and fix problems or to install a Windows system. You can create kinds of boot disk with various functions depending on the software ISO image file you burn to.

Here in this article we demonstrate how to make a boot disk for Windows 7 by burning Windows 7 installation ISO image file to a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk which would come in handy when your original Windows 7 installation disk damaged or lost.

Requirements:

• Have Windows 7 installed on your computer
• Windows 7 Installation ISO image file
• An available USB flash drive with at least 4 GB in size or an available CD/DVD disk
• Professional ISO image file burning tool – Finalbooster 

Here’s How to:

1. Download and install the professional ISO image file burning tool – Finalbooster. You can find it from www.asunsoft.com.

2. Locate the Windows 7 installation ISO image file on your computer. Or if you don’t have one, you can download from Microsoft official website and save it to a specific location.

3. Run the installed Finalbooster. Click Browse button in its main interface to select the Windows 7 ISO image file.

4. Insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk into your computer. Click Burn to USB or Burn to CD/DVD button correspondingly. Here we take Burn to USB as an example. After that it will start burning the ISO image file and will take a short while to finish.

Note: Use a totally new USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk or backup the contents in it because it will be formatted when burning the ISO image file into it.

5. When it prompts Burning Successfully, you have made a bootable installation disk for your Windows 7 and can use it as an installation disk to install Windows 7.

Help! Forgot Windows 7 Administrator Password

Need a way around password on administrator account in windows 7 new machine and during setup password was entered accidentally and don’t know it.  Data from old machine is transferred, so I do not want to do a complete re-install of operating system, or i will lose data. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Are you encountering similar situation that you forgot your Windows 7 Administrator password? What’s worse, if it is the only one administrator account, it means you would lose administrator privileges over your Windows 7 computer and cannot freely to install or uninstall a software, update drivers or access to files need administrator privileges.

Here provides two small and feasible countermeasures toward forgetting Windows 7 administrator password.

Remove Forgotten Windows 7 Administrator Password

If you forgot Windows 7 administrator password, personally, I think removing the old forgotten password is the brightest and most direct way.

Because you have forgotten administrator password, so removing from Control Panel becomes impossible. But you can remove forgotten administrator password with a third-party tool just like removing a lock with a handle.

Step 1: Download and install Windows 7 Password Geeker on another accessible computer first.

Step 2: Create a Windows 7 password reset disk by burning the software into USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk. Choose USB device or CD/DVD, and correspondingly insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk, and then click Begin burning button.

Step 3: Transfer that USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk loaded with Windows 7 Password Geeker into locked Windows 7 computer and set the computer boot from the USB or CD/DVD.

Step 4: When locked Windows 7 computer booted from the USB or CD/DVD, Windows 7 Password Geeker will start automatically and shows you its password reset interface.

Step 5: You select the user name corresponding to your administrator account and click Reset Password button to reset its password to blank.

Step 6: Click Reboot button to restart the computer. Eject your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and click Yes to confirm restarting.

Now you have removed your forgotten Windows 7 administrator password and can login back without password.

Tip: For safety’s sake, after login your Windows 7 computer, this time you can set a secure password by following principles. And, create a password reset disk for it right after create the new password.

Bypass Forgotten Windows 7 Administrator Password by Creating a New Administrator Account

You would ask that generally we create a new account from Control Panel by Administrator account, how could we create a new administrator account when cannot login with our administrator account. Windows 7 Password Geeker again, besides removing forgotten password, it supports creating a new administrator account without log in.

Do Step 1 to Step 4 just as above.

Step 5: When you are in Windows 7 Password Geeker password reset interface, you directly click Add User button.

Step 6: Type in a new User Name and its new Password. Click OK button to save.

Step 7: Click Reboot button when you see the newly added account is shown. Eject your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and click Yes to confirm restarting.

Login your Windows 7 computer with the newly created user account and its new password.

Windows 8 Password Reset without Disk

Forgot your Windows 8 password? If you have created a password reset disk as long as you set a password for your account, it would cause no panic at all when you forgot your Windows 8 password. But what if you have to perform Windows 8 password reset without disk? That shouldn’t cause your panic as well. Here we especially list optional ways for you to perform Windows 8 password reset without disk.

Windows 8 Password Reset with other Accessible Administrator Account

If you forgot Windows 8 password and know that there is no password reset disk created before for sure, check whether there is an account with administrator privileges among the accessible accounts. If have, switch to log in to that accessible administrator account.

1. Login with that accessible administrator account to get into locked Windows 8 first.

2. Press Windows key + X key to open Computer Management window.

 

3. Expand Local Users and Groups and then Users folder.

4. Right click on the target Windows 8 user account you forgot its password and select Set Password button.

5. Enter the new password and reenter it to confirm.

6. Click OK button to save the changes.

Windows 8 Password Reset with Alternative & Available Sign-in Options

Windows 8 features the option to sign in using a local user account, a Microsoft account, a picture password or a PIN code. If you signed for a Microsoft account or created a picture password or PIN code, try login with any alternative sign-in option first and then reset Windows 8 forgotten password.

1. Click Sign-in options link and choose Password, PIN or Picture password to sign in your Windows 8.

After successful sign-in, you can reset your Windows 8 local account password easily.

2. Press Windows key + X key simultaneously and select Command Prompt (Admin) option.

3. In Command Prompt window, type the command: net user User-Name New-Password and press Enter key to perform Windows 8 password reset.

When you see the prompt that The command completed successfully, you have reset your Windows 8 password successfully.

Windows 8 Password Reset with Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker Advanced

The above two ways only feasible when you meet certain premises, but what if you didn’t meet? Can you still perform Windows 8 password reset besides with password reset disk created before? This method comes to your need.

1. Use any accessible computer with Internet to download and install Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker Advanced.

2. Run the installed Asunsoft and choose USB device or CD/DVD as the media to create a bootable password reset disk.

3. Insert a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk, select it from the pull-down list and then click Begin burning button.

4. Transfer the already burned USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk to the locked Windows 8 computer. Start Windows 8 computer, press Boot Menu key as soon as possible to enter Boot Menu screen and select Removable devices or CD/DVD-ROM Drive option.

5. Select the target user account you forgot its password, click Reset Password button, click Yes to reset its password to blank.

6. Click Reboot button when password has been reset as Blank. Eject your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and click Yes button to restart your computer now.

How to Create a Windows 7 Password Reset Disk

As we all know, a Windows 7 password reset disk can help you easily reset forgotten or lost Windows 7 password. Now here I’d like to introduce two kinds of Windows 7 password reset disk, one is created proactively before forgot password and the other is created freshly after forgot password.

Read on to check which kind of Window 7 password reset disk suits you best.

Windows 7 Password Reset Disk Created Proactively

A Windows 7 password reset disk created proactively means that you created it when you still have access to your Windows 7 far more before you forgot your Windows 7 password. You can create on following the easy steps:

1. Insert a floppy disk or USB flash drive into your Windows 7 as the media to create a Windows 7 password reset disk.

Note: Not support CD, DVD, or external hard drive.

2. Click on Start button and choose Control Panel.

3. Click on the User Accounts and Family Safety link and then User Accounts link.

4. Click on the Create a password reset disk link on the left pane.

Note: It corresponds to the local administrator account by default.

5. Click Next button in the Forgotten Password Wizard window.

6. Select the removable device name from the pull-down list and click Next button to go on.

7. Enter your current account password and click Next button to go on.

8. When it prompts you that the process is 100% completed, you click Next button.

9. Click Finish button to finish creating the Windows 7 password reset disk.

10. Remove the floppy disk or USB flash drive from your Windows 7 computer and put it away.

Note: If you have already forgotten your Windows 7 password and cannot get in, then you won’t be able to create such a Windows 7 password reset disk.

Windows 7 Password Reset Disk Created Freshly

In view of that the above Windows 7 password reset disk cannot be created when you cannot get in Windows 7, here I introduce the other kind of Windows 7 password reset disk which can make that. Follow the easy steps to create one:

1. Prepare yourself another accessible computer with Internet, which could be your work computer, your brother or sister’s or others’.

2. Search Asunsoft Windows 7 Password Geeker at Google, download and install it on that accessible computer.

3. Run the installed Asunsoft Windows 7 Password Geeker, choose USB device or CD/DVD option.

4. Insert a blank USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk, select it from the pull-down list and then click Begin burning button to start burning the software into it.

5. Click OK when it prompts Burning successfully.

6. Remove the USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk and transfer it to the locked Windows 7 computer to reset forgotten password.

You can find more solutions to reset Windows 7 password without disk below:

How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (1)

How to Reset Windows 7 Password without Disk (2)

I Forgot the Password to My Laptop

Forgot the Windows password to your laptop and thus being locked out of it? What can you do? No need take your laptop to a computer technician or a computer repair store. You yourself can fix it easily at home. Now this article will introduce some common ways to reset forgotten password for Dell/Acer/HP/Samsung/Lenovo etc. laptop.

You run Windows 8 or Windows 7? Or you say that you run Windows XP? No problem at all. Because the ways I’m going to introduce apply to almost all Windows systems. So don’t worry!

Way 1: Reset Forgotten Laptop Password with another Accessible Administrator

Essential: An accessible administrator account.

When you get the prompt the username or password is incorrect, input the password again to make sure that you type it correctly. Is still wrong again? Remind whether there is any accessible administrator account, if there is, switch to log in with that accessible administrator account.

1. Click Start button and type lusrmgr.msc in the search box. Press Enter to open Local Users and Groups. For Windows 8 user, swipe the mouse cursor to the top right corner or lower right corner, then you can see the Search icon.

2. Expand Users folder and then you can have a look at all user account on your laptop.

3. Right click on the target user account you forgot its password and select Set Password option.

4. Click Proceed button to input a new password and confirm it.

5. Click OK button to save the changes made.

Lesson Learned: You can add more one spare administrator account on your laptop. You can leave its password blank in case you forgot its password as well for long time no log in.

Way 2: Reset Forgotten Laptop Password with Password Reset Disk

Essential: The password reset disk created before password forgotten.

Almost all Windows system support creating a password reset disk after creating a new user account and password for it. Its function is to reset password when you are locked out of your Windows. If you have one, do as the followings do and soon you will be enlightened.

1. When it prompted you that the username or password is wrong, try once again first and if you still get the prompt, click OK button.

2. Insert the Windows password reset disk you created before into your laptop and then click Reset password link under the password box.

3. In Password Reset Wizard window, click Next button to continue to select the inserted disk drive name from the pull-down list and then click Next button to go on again. 

4. Reset a new password for you laptop, confirm it and then click Next button to Finish laptop password reset.

If you have no idea of what the password reset disk is mentioned above, then I guess that you didn’t create a password reset disk when you create a password for your laptop user account. If now you have another accessible computer at hand, you can check Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts > Create a password reset disk.

Lesson Learned: Whenever create a password for a user account on your laptop, you can create a password reset disk in advance in case forgot laptop password again.

What if you didn’t meet the essentials in the above two ways? Is there any other effective way to reset forgotten password for your laptop? The follow way to be introduced will get you there.

Way Three: Reset Forgotten Laptop Password with Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker

Essential: Another accessible computer with Internet & a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk & the full version of Windows Password Geeker

Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker is professional to reset Windows password. As long as you have another accessible computer to download the full version of the program and a USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk, it can help you reset forgotten laptop password under most situations.

1. Use another accessible computer to search and download the full version of Asunsoft Windows Password Geeker and then install it.

Why you have to download the full version is that the trial version only helps you experience and familiarize the program but it won’t take effect to reset any password.

2. Run the installed program and follow its on-screen steps to burn it into the USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk to create a password recovery disk.

3. Transfer the created password recovery disk into your locked laptop. Start or restart your laptop, press corresponding key it prompted to enter Boot Menu. Then select USB-Hard-Disk (Removable Devices) or CD/DVD-ROM Drive option to set laptop boot from USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk respectively.

Some Common Laptop Boot Menu Key for your reference:

Dell – F12

Acer – F12

HP – F9

Samsung – F12

Lenovo – F12

4. Select the target user account you forgot password, click Reset Password button to reset and then click Reboot button to restart your laptop to log in your laptop without password or with new password.

Lesson Learned: There are always ways to solve password forgetting problems. If you failed trying other ways, you can give this way a try. It can reset forgotten or lost password what other ways cannot.