Have you forgotten your windows login password? or want
to access Admin account in school or colleges?
Whatever the reason is, this article can help you
to get into the Admin account of your Windows computer system even without
knowing its password.
For this purpose we will use here a small utility
called "Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor".
Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor
- This is a utility to reset the password of any
user of your Windows system.
- Supports all Windows from NT3.5 to Win7, also
64 bit and also the Server versions (like 2003 and 2008)
- You do not need to know the old password to
set a new one.
- It works offline, that is, you have to
shutdown your computer and boot off a CD or USB disk to do the password
reset.
Requirements:
- Blank CD / USB Drive
Follow the procedure below to
reset/remove password
1. Preparing a bootable "Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor" CD/USB
- For CD:
- Download this utility from here. You will get a zip file > extract
it.
- In the extracted folder you will get an iso
image file named 'cd110511.iso'. Using any image burning software
burn it on a blank CD.
- For USB:
- Download this utility from here. You will get a zip file > extract
it.
- Copy everything what is there
in extracted folder and paste in your USB drive.
- Now open command prompt as
administrator(write cmd in search at start menu > right click on
cmd.exe > run as administrator).
- In the command prompt write the following and
press enter.
- f:\syslinux.exe -ma f:
- Note: In above command, replace both f (marked red)with your USB
drive's letter.
Now, your CD/USB is ready for use. You can now
proceed with this media to the computer of which password you want to reset.
2. Resetting Password Using Bootable CD/USB
- Insert CD/USB in the computer whose password
to be reset.
- Now you need to boot your system from
CD/USB. For that restart your computer, then if it ask automatically to
boot from CD then press enter. If it does not ask automatically then after
restarting your system, when you see the logo of your computer manufacturer,
press esc or F10 just after that. It will take you to boot device option
screen, select the USB and press enter.
- After booting from USB, first it will stop at the screen as shown below > press enter.
- Now, it will ask you to for the drive in which your windows is installed. Check the options thoroughly, and choose the correct one.(note: You can recognize it by the size of your drives)
- Now, it will ask you for the path of registry, write down the following:
- windows/system32/config
- Then in next two stops write 1 and press enter.
- Then it shows you all the user account on your windows system, write down the name of the user whose password you want to remove.
- In next step, write 1 if you want to remove password or write 2 if you want to reset.
- When you are done with password resetting or removing press '!' to get out of this, then press 'q'.
- Important Step: When it ask you to save back press 'y'.
- In next stops, press 'n' then press ctrl+ alt+ delete, it will take you out from this, and will restart your computer.
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