My Windows 7 Laptop Forgot Its Logon Password, What’s Next?
“We forgot the Windows 7 logon password to our administrator main user. We recently got a new printer and can’t set it up without that password. Is there way to reset the password or to delete that admin account? It’s a dell laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic.” You’re just getting back from a relaxing vacation and when you’re trying to log on to your computer, you suddenly realize that you cannot remember what your computer password. Terrible experience, isn’t it?
With respect to reset forgotten Windows 7 password, the most recommended way is to use an alternate administrator account or a password reset disk. Of course, the presupposition is that the admin account or password reset disk is available for you.
What to do if you have a password reset disk
If you have made precautionary measure by creating a password reset disk in advance, you may feel calm in that situation. All you need to do is to take out of the password reset disk and insert it in your laptop. Then enter a wrong password on the logon screen, press Enter. A “Reset password” link will appear after you click OK to close the error massage. Click the “Reset password” link to pop up the Password Reset Wizard. Next follow the wizard to change your forgotten computer password in seconds.
What to do if you don’t have a password reset disk
What if you don’t have a password reset disk under that circumstance? Feel confused and frustrated? No! Many related methods you can try to reset the forgotten password. For example, you can call for support from your computer maker or you can take your laptop to the computer shop for repair.
As far as I’m concerned, the best and fast way is to seek for a powerful Windows 7 password recovery tool. Of course, its presupposition is that you can download and install the tool in a computer that you can log in as administrator. As everyone knows, only administrators in Windows have rights to download and install third-party programs.
For those who are not familiar with computer, here’s an extremely easy-to-use program: Windows Password Breaker. With this application, you can instantly reset Windows 7 password to blank in 5 minutes, without any data loss or damage. Following are its overall steps.
1. Download and install Windows Password Breaker in any PC that you can log in as administrator.
2. Create a bootable password reset disk with USB flash drive or CD/DVD.
3. Boot the locked PC from the bootable password reset disk.
4. Reset Windows 7 password to blank.
If you’re prone to recover your forgotten admin main user password for free, Ophcrack will be your ideal choice. With Ophcrack, you don’t need any access to Windows system to be able to recover your forgotten passwords instead of recovering it. Simply visit the site, download the free ISO image, burn it to a CD and boot from the CD. The Ophcrack program starts, locates the Windows user accounts, and proceeds to recover (crack) the passwords.
Please note that Windows Password Breaker is released as shareware while Ophcrack is free. But compared with Ophcrack, Windows Password Breaker is much easier, faster and more convenient while it guarantees nearly 100% Windows 7 password reset rate.
