You lose your Windows password and cannot log in to your machine. If you
have a rescue disk, you should be okay. If not, you might have to turn to Linux
for help.
The method that I describe in this tutorial can work with a Windows
machine that either dual boots with Linux or does not. If the machine in
question does not dual boot, you will need to download a live edition of a
Linux distribution (I am using fedora for the task) and burn that ISO
image to a disk or you could also use a Linux distribution on a USB drive.
Either way, you will need to boot in to Linux to recover your password.
This method will
allow you to remove the existing password (which you have forgotten/don’t know)
and reset the password to your like. It’s Simple but effective. Just
follow the given steps properly.
Step 1: Boot in to Linux
Put the burned disk
in the drive (or boot from USB) and boot in to the Live edition of Linux. You
should use the standard Live session.
Step 2: Select the Try Fedora option
Then, wait some time to load Linux.
Step 3: Click on Close button
Hover your mouse
over the top-left corner of the screen while viewing the Linux desktop, and
click the Activities button. Afterward, click the Files option from the popup menu.
Step 5:
Now, you will have to mount the hard drive that
contains your Windows installation. Click on Places at the top-left of the
screen. If your Windows drive is easily identifiable – usually by its size –
then left click on it. If it is not obvious, then click on Computer and check
out each hard drive until you find the correct one. The correct hard
drive will have the WINDOWS folder in it.
Step 6:
Open Windows, System32 folder.
Now, in this folder, System32, find an application named Magnify and rename it as Magnify1 (creating a backup file). Renaming Magnify won’t do any
harm to your computer.
Step 8.
Also, find the application named cmd and
create a copy of it in the same folder(system32). Then Rename the copy file
as Magnify
Close all opened windows and Restart your system.
Step 10.
When the Password screen appears, Click on Ease
of Access Button (Highlighted in the figure below). Select Magnifier option from the Ease of Access
window.
It will open a Command Prompt(Cmd) with admin privileges.
Step 11.
Enter this code into cmd:
net user Administrator * (to change the Administrator’s password). You will not be able to see the password, so enter it carefully.
And if you want to create a new user with administrator privilege, enter these codes,
net user bijukbaby /add * (to create a user named bijukbaby)
net localgroup Administrators /add bijukbaby (to add bijukbaby to Administrators group)
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