Forgetting your windows password and getting locked out of your system is something completely messed up. You can only reach a maximum number of times you try entering the wrong password over and over again before you have to go ahead and format your PC and start thing over again, right?
Wrong.
What if you were to find a way to get back into your account without having to lose all your data. It doesn’t matter what version of Windows you’re on. Whether it be Windows 10, 8.1, 8 or even the grandad Windows 7.
But your luck isn’t out if you’re on one of the obsolete versions of Windows too, this method even extends its support to Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, NT, Windows Server 2012 (R2)/2008 (R2)/2003 (R2).
So what are we talking about today?
Well, we’ve got a wonderful little app here for you today. One, specifically designed to help you get out of situations where you’ve locked yourself out of the PC. The app we’re talking about today is called Windows Password Recovery.
What does it do?
Well everything the name suggests it can do, and to be honest it does a bit more, like creating a new administrator account via CD/DVD or USB drive. All that’s waiting to be done is for you to download this software on a computer you have access to and then create a simple bootable USB. And that should help you recover the password for the account you lost it on.
Features
- Recover passwords for any lost account or domain
- 100% recovery rate
- Support for all file systems including FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5
- Create a new administrator account
- Create a bootable USB drive.
- Support for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000,NT and the old Windows Server models
How to recover a lost password using Windows Password Recovery
Requirements
- An accessible PC that you can logon to and install Windows password Recovery.
- An active internet connection to download the software.
- A USB flash drive (formatted and preferably with over 4GB space)
- The computer you can’t log onto.
Step 1:
After you’ve assembled everything you need for this short procedure, you need to log onto the PC that you have control of (can log onto) and download and install Windows password recovery.
Tip: You can grab a free trial for this software right now on their website for a limited period of time. Head over and download it now, who knows when you might need to use this!
Step 2:
Once you’ve installed the software, you get to choose what device you wish to use to create a bootable media file. You can either pick a CD or a USB flash drive. We recommend using flash drive just to keep up with the times. But if can find a CD go ahead.
Hit Begin Burning, once you selected your device.
Step 3:
Once the software informs you that the burning is complete, you can proceed to plug it into the PC you’re locked out of and set it up so that the PC boots up from the Drive you just created.
To finish off, simply select the Windows install directory and the User Name of the account you want to regain access to, and hit the “reset password” option.
In conclusion
This is a fool proof method of recovering your lost windows password easily. Now of course this is a paid software, but like we said before there is a free trial available on their website for a limited period of time.So the best thing would be to download and keep this software in case you ever need it in the future. If however you want to try out different methods or hacks to get into locked out Windows check out this Windows 10 Password Hack.
The best software there is out there for this sort of work, would definitely recommend using this.