A simple program to reset your account password. How to reset forgotten account password in Windows? We use system recovery tools

Many users protect their account with a password from unauthorized access. Undoubtedly, using a password increases the level of security and allows you to ensure the protection of personal data. Reset Windows password relevant in case of its loss or when the user simply forgot the password and cannot enter his previously created account. There are several ways to reset a password, but there is no need to consider all of them, so we will consider only the simplest and most effective method.

The easiest Windows password reset method whether it is an operating system XP, 7 or 8 - the use of a system software product referred to as: ERD Commander MS DaRT(The abbreviation stands for "Emergency Repair Disk" and "Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset", respectively "Emergency Repair Disk" and "Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit").

Simply put, the ERD Commander software toolkit is a bootable disk with the Windows PE operating system and a set of special utility programs loaded from removable media (CD, DVD, USB, external hard disk) to restore the working state operating system Windows.

In order to reset your Windows password, you will need an ERD Commander image, which you can download by specifying a request in search engines Yandex or Google, the result will not keep you waiting. We downloaded the image, now you need to burn it to removable media, there was no CD at hand, so a USB drive was selected. If you do not know "how to make a bootable USB flash drive", then you can look in this article.

After you have made a bootable USB flash drive and recorded ERD Commander on it, you need to install the boot from the primary device in the Bios I / O system and specify your removable media.

If all the above actions are performed correctly, a window with a choice of operating systems and their bit depth will appear in front of you. Choose the one you need.

After a while, the system will offer to select an operating system from the list, indicate your system.

You will see the System Recovery Options window, select the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset menu item.

Note: for the operating room Windows systems XP the location and name of the Windows password reset utility is different from Windows 7 and 8, so you need to follow this path Start → System Tools → Locksmith

Make your changes and restart your computer, when you sign in, enter your New Password. Windows password reset procedure completed successfully!

The password is the most important tool for protecting user data from viewing and using by third parties. However, an unlearned password can turn against the user himself. And if, for example, the password for the account of any website will not be problematic to recover, then with gaining access to account Windows may already have questions. But there is a solution, and this is the Windows Password Recovery utility.

In fact, quite a few users find themselves in the situation of losing their Windows logon password. In most cases, users resort to a complete reinstallation of the operating system, which can be avoided by using the Windows Password Recovery utility to recover their password.

Windows Password Recovery is an effective tool that allows you to recover or completely reset your password, as well as create a new administrator account or completely delete an existing one. The utility successfully recovers the password for Windows 10 and lower versions of this operating system.

Password recovery progress since Windows utility Password Recovery:

1. First of all, the utility will need to be installed on any other work computer in order to create bootable media.

2. By running the utility, you will be prompted to create a bootable disk or USB flash drive. note that trial version the program is capable of creating only a bootable CD, and to create a bootable USB flash drive, you will need to purchase full version programs.

3. Go to the tab "Advanced Recovery" where you need to choose Windows version for the computer on which the password will be restored.

4. Go back to the first tab. You will see that a third item appears on the screen, allowing you to save the ISO image with the utility to your computer. Subsequently, you can create a bootable disk or USB flash drive using any other program convenient for you.

5. If you create a boot disk (in the free version) via Windows program Password Recovery, you just have to press a button "Next" , and then "Burn" to start creating bootable media.

6. The process will begin and you will notice it for a few minutes.

7. As soon as the process of writing the bootable media is completed, a window will appear on the screen informing about the success of the procedure.

8. Now armed bootable media, you will need to connect it to the computer on which the password recovery will be performed, and then enter the BIOS and set the disk or USB flash drive as the main boot device.

9. If everything was done correctly, the following window will appear on the screen:

10. After waiting for the utility to finish loading, you will need to select a Windows disk on the screen, on which the password will be reset.

11. Select the account in which the password will be reset, and just below, select the appropriate action: delete the password, change the password, delete the administrator account, create a new administrator account.

12. In our example, we change Old Password to a new one, therefore, accordingly, in the next window of the program we will need to enter a new password twice.

13. After completing the procedure, you just have to restart your computer in normal mode. Ready!

Features of Windows Password Recovery:

The utility has free version, but there is one caveat: it works purely in trial mode, not allowing you to delete and reset the password for Windows 8 and other versions of this OS, as well as delete the administrator account or create a new one. To complete these steps, you will need to purchase a paid version;
The utility works with Windows XP and higher operating systems;
The utility successfully resets and recovers the administrator password for Windows 10 and lower versions of this OS;
Allows you to delete an existing administrator account or create a new one.

Windows Password Recovery is an effective tool for both ordinary users and professionals who are involved in computer repair. Despite the lack of support for the Russian language, the utility is extremely easy to use, and therefore it can be recommended to everyone for quick access to a locked computer.

Due to numerous requests from readers, I decided to write a detailed and simple instruction, how to reset the password for a user account in any version of Windows: 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP.
So, you turned on the computer, and the system asks for a password to enter. You enter the user password, but it does not match: an error “incorrect password” occurs. What to do if none of the passwords are suitable, but you need to log in to the system? There is a solution - the password can be reset using a special program written on a bootable USB flash drive. Now I'll tell you how to create such a USB flash drive.

You will need to briefly use any others computer. To do this, you can contact a relative, friend, neighbor, maybe have a computer at work - I think this is not a problem now.

So, we sit down at another computer or laptop. We insert any USB flash drive into it:

Downloading free program to reset Windows passwords -. You can download it from the official website (or from my Yandex.Disk):

Run the downloaded file lsrmphdsetup.exe: Install the program as usual: i.e. We agree with everything and in all windows we press the button “ Next”. In the last installation window, press the button “ Finish”- the program will start automatically and its shortcut will be created on the desktop:

In the start window, press the button Burn Bootable CD / USB Disk Now!(“Burn bootable CD / USB disk right now"):

In the next window select windows version, which is installed on the computer where we will then reset the password. Not in the list Windows 10, but it's not scary: if you have "ten", then choose here Windows 8.1 with your bit depth.

By the way, on one of the forums I saw a message that you can create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8.1 64-bit, and it is suitable for resetting the password on any version of Windows (I checked on Windows 10 64-bit and on Windows 7 64-bit - so and there is):

After you have chosen the required version of Windows - press the button “ Next”:

In the next window, put a marker on the item USB Flash and select the letter of our flash drive (it is already inserted into the computer). In my case, the letter of the flash drive: F.
Then we press the button “ Start”:

The program will download the necessary components from the Microsoft website for some time:

After that the program will ask: “ Format USB drive now?"All files, if they are on the flash drive, will be deleted. We press the button “ Yes”:

Now we are waiting for the bootable USB flash drive to be created:

At the end of the process - press the button " Finish”:

Everything! A bootable USB flash drive with a password reset program is ready. We take it out and carry it to our computer.

We insert the bootable USB drive into your computer. And now comes the most important, and at the same time, the most difficult moment for those who will do it for the first time. We need configure the computer boot from our flash drive .

Those who know how to boot a computer from a USB flash drive - you can immediately skip to the end of this article. For those who do not know how to boot from a USB flash drive, I will try to explain as clearly as possible:

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In order to "force" the computer to boot not as usual (that is, from the hard disk), but from the device we need (in our case, from a flash drive), you need to enable a certain setting v Bios computer.

To get into this very Bios, we must immediately after turning on the computer press a certain key on the keyboard (and press not once, but many, many times until we see the BIOS on the screen).

On different computers and laptops, this key is different:

The most commonly used key is Delete(or Del ).
Also, you can often call Bios with the key F2(and on some laptops Fn + F2 ).
Less commonly used keys Esc, F1, F6 other.

In general, immediately after you pressed the Power button on your computer or laptop, then do not wait until Windows starts loading, but immediately start pressing the key many times Delete on keyboard. After a few seconds (5-10), the screen should display Bios.

If nothing like that appeared, but your Windows boot started as usual, then we don't expect anything else: we restart our computer again (you can directly press the Reset button) and try to press another key many times - F2.

If you don't get into BIOS again, we restart the computer again and try to press the next key - Esc... Later F6 etc. But I hope you don't have to experiment that long: in the vast majority of cases, either the Delete key or F2 is triggered.

By the way, a hint about which key to load Bios usually flashes at the bottom of the screen immediately after turning on the computer. But for some reason, no one looks at it, or does not have time to consider it.

On different computers Bios different, and it looks different for everyone.

On my computer, for example, it is like this:

On another computer, it will be like this:

On the third computer, this is:
That is, I'm talking about the fact that it is almost impossible to write a separate instruction for each BIOS.

The main thing that anyone who needs to configure boot from a USB flash drive should know is: in BIOS (no matter how it looks for you), you need to find a section where the word is present Boot(from English "Download"). By going with the arrows on the keyboard to this section - put it in the first place in the list of boot devices USB stick.

In BIOS, a flash drive can be displayed with its own name (for example, Transcend), or as USB-HDD; there are other options. One thing is important: it must be selected as the first device from which the computer will boot.

Usually, a USB flash drive is "raised" to the first place using the arrows on the keyboard, or with the keys +/- or F5 / F6.

Having set the desired setting in BIOS, we must leave it, not forgetting to save the changes made. To do this, go to the section Exit(it is usually the very last one) - and there select the item “ Save and Exit”(“ Save and Exit ”). And then confirm once again that we are exiting by clicking “ Yes”.

That's all: if you did everything correctly, the computer will reboot and boot from the USB flash drive (press the Delete key again, or F2, or something else - no need!).

Many do not even want to deal with creating a bootable USB flash drive with any software, tk. they are afraid that they will still not be able to configure the computer to boot from it. I tried to describe this whole process of booting from a USB flash drive in as much detail as possible. If you have mastered this text, I hope it has become at least a little clearer and now you just have to practice.

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So, I created a bootable USB flash drive with a password reset program on another computer. I insert this flash drive into my computer and turn it on.

Immediately press the key many, many times Delete on keyboard. In a few seconds I find myself in Bios.

Using the arrows on the keyboard, I go to the section Boot(although in my BIOS you can work with a mouse - in old versions of BIOS it will not work like that).

Here, my first device is now HDD (ACHI PO: WDC WD50…):
I select this line using the arrow on the keyboard and press the key Enter... A list of devices from which you can boot opens. In my case, this is a hard drive and my flash drive (it is listed here two times). Raising to the first place in the list - USB stick(if there is a choice: USB or UEFI, then choose UEFI). We do this using the arrows on the keyboard, or using the keys +/- or F5 / F6:

Now the flash drive is in the first place in the list of boot devices:

Now we exit here, saving the changes. To do this, move the arrow on the keyboard to the last section Exit... Select the line Save Changes and Exit- press the key Enter:

Then we choose Yes:

After a while, a menu opens, in which the key Enter we choose an item Lazesoft Live CD:

We are waiting while the download is in progress:

In the next window, check that the item is selected Reset Windows Password("Reset Windows password") and press the button Next:

A window will pop up with a message about the non-commercial use of the program - click Yes:

Click again Next:

In the next window highlight the username whose password will be reset and click Next:

Click on the button RESET / UNLOCK:

The password was successfully reset - click OK... Then Finish:

We go to “ Start”And click Reboot Computer("To restart a computer"):

Push OK:

After the computer restarts, we can login to windows without password!

If you cannot log in to Windows 7 due to the fact that you forgot or lost your account password, then this article will help you. It contains all effective ways to delete, reset or replace the password of any account(even an administrator) in the "seven" and recommendations are given on how to protect yourself in case the password is lost in the future. All the described ways to unblock a user account are absolutely safe if you follow the instructions and do everything carefully.

How to reset a forgotten password using Ophcrack

Ophcrack- a unique utility that allows you to restore access to any account in Windows 7 in just a few minutes. Moreover, it works in any edition of the OS, starting with XP, and can function from a bootable USB flash drive. The mechanism of the program is somewhat different from the algorithms for guessing passwords of similar applications and includes several components:

LM-hash algorithm- in this format, passwords are stored in Windows 7, the number of characters of which does not exceed 15 pieces;
rainbow tables- a mechanism designed to recover encrypted passwords by using hashes with a complex reverse decryption process.

The program can also unlock complex passwords by extracting them from registry files with subsequent decryption using completely new methods of data processing, due to which the load on hardware resources is small, and the selection speed increases by orders of magnitude.

Using a bootable flash drive with Ophcrack

The algorithm below is relevant for computers that cannot be accessed by the following reasons:

the password for one account has been lost, but there are no other accounts;
no user profiles on this computer can be accessed.

If you are faced with a similar case, you will have to execute instruction, which boils down to the following: create a bootable USB drive based on a special version of Ophcrack and boot from this media to restore access to the account. In more detail, this instruction looks like this:

For inexperienced users, it is recommended to select the first (graphical) mode of OphCrack operation: Ophcrack Graphic mode... But it should be borne in mind that in the graphical mode the program may not start, and the text mode works flawlessly, although it requires certain skills in handling console programs.

If we consider working in a program with an interface in more detail in the next section, then we will dwell on using its console version in more detail. Although, of the features, there is only the absence of windows and buttons. After launching the console version of the utility, it will automatically determine passwords for all accounts and display them in the " Results».

Remove password from Windows

What to do if you forgot password for the administrator account? The program will also help here Ophcrack, but with a network connection to download it. Consider the sequence of actions:

After a few seconds or minutes, depending on the complexity of the combination of characters in the password, it will be displayed in the " NT Pwd».

We use system recovery tools

What to do, if no access to the Internet and another computer, but do you need to log into your account? Solve the problem will help bootable USB stick or disk containing the distribution of the Windows 7 operating system used on the computer.

In this case, resetting the Windows 7 administrator password is as possible as follows.

We connect the boot drive of the same edition of the "seven" as installed on the PC.
Reboot your PC.
We call the boot menu of the computer / laptop. This can be done using the F2, F9, F11 or other keys specified in the manual for the motherboard or on the BIOS boot screen.
In the list available devices select the target USB drive to start the computer from it.
Press any key to boot from the selected media.
We select the language of the system installed on the computer, and then click the Next button.
Click the link « » in the window with the Install button to launch the Windows 7 Resume Tools.
In the parameters, select command line to invoke the system command execution tool.
In the window that appears, enter the regedit command and execute it using the Enter key. This will open the classic registry editor window.
In this window, as in file manager with the display of directories in the form of a tree, go to the HKLM section.
Through the main menu we call the command "" located in the menu " File».
Select the file " config» - « SYSTEM", Which does not have an extension.
Set any file name without using Cyrillic characters and confirm it by pressing the enter button.
Go to the bush " HKLM"-" entered_bust_name "- Setup.
Double-click to open the key editing menu " CmdLine».
As the parameter value, enter “ cmd.exe"To run the command line before booting Windows 7.
In the same way, set the value " Setup Type"Equal" 2 ».
Select a new bush in HKLM.
We call the command “ Unload the bush"Located in the menu item" File».
We reboot the computer, as a result of which the command line will appear.
In the command line, enter a command of the form net user username password and execute it with the Enter key. After that, the command line can be closed.

Thus, it is easy to recover a forgotten password as many times as you like, but using the proposed method on other people's computers will not work due to the fact that changing the password is required when gaining access to any of the accounts.

Create a flash drive for instant password reset for a specific account

If you do not want to repeat the situation with a forgotten password, it is better to make a diskette to reset it. By a floppy disk we mean a USB flash drive, because the use of floppy disks and disks in recent years is not relevant.

As a result, the wizard will create a bootable disk required to unlock the account, the password for which was lost.

Now, if for some reason you cannot enter Windows 7, click the Reset password button, insert the created disk or USB flash drive and follow the instructions. which boil down to clicking Next.

After reinstalling the system, changing the password, or creating a new account, the password reset disk will have to be recreated.

Knowing how to reset the Windows 7 administrator password and having a USB flash drive with a key file, a forgotten password will no longer be a problem.

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