Have you ever lost your Windows password? If you have, you must know the feeling. That means you could not use your computer and your work cannot move on. So, are there some ways to retrieve your lost Windows password? Yes, here we will show you several methods for Windows 7 password recovery, and then you do not have to ask for help everywhere. On this article we will share with you four efficient methods to recover windows 7 password, which are arrayed from easy to difficult. Method 1: Use an available administrator account Need: An available administrator account If you have an available administrator account on your system, you can get your password back easily. Logon Win 7 system with the admin account, and then you can come to the Control Panel and change or delete other accounts' passwords. Just three steps: Step 1: Click Start -> Control Panel -> Add or remove user accounts Step 2: Choose the locked administrator account Step 3: Click Change the password or Remove the password. And then you can change or remove the lost or forgotten password Method 2: Use Windows password reset disk Need: a Windows password reset disk (USB key) Windows 7 allows us to create a Windows password reset disk (USB key) in case that we lost the Win 7 logon password. When we lose the password of Win 7, we can reset a new one with the created disk. The weak point is that you can only create the disk before losing your Windows 7 password. If you do not create that, it could not help. You could follow these five easy steps: Step 1: When you enter a wrong password on the logon screen, a hint will appear: The user name or password is incorrect. Click OK and you are back to the logon screen. Insert the created Windows password reset disk (USB key) to your Win 7 PC and click Reset password... Step 2: Click Next Step 3: Choose your disk and click Next Step 4: Type a new password and click Next Step 5: Click Finish and your lost password should be reset Method 3: Use third party Windows 7 password recovery software Need: 1. A blank CD/DVD or an USB flash drive 2. A computer that has a CD/DVD writer 3. Windows 7 password recovery software There is plenty of third party software for password recovery on Windows 7 online. Most of them are designed to create a Windows password recovery disk. With the disk you can recover your lost Windows 7 password. We highly recommend Windows Login Recovery and use it as an example. What you need to do is just three steps: Step 1: Download Windows Login Recovery Step 2: Burn a Windows password recovery disk with the software Step 3: Recover the Windows 7 password with the disk Method 4: Use Windows 7 installation disc Need: Windows 7 installation disc Installation disc of Windows 7 can not only install the system for you, but also restore the system. If you have created a system backup image before you created the Windows 7 password, the installation disc could help you to restore your system to the early status (the status that has no a logon password). Then you could access your computer without password. You can follow these five steps: Step 1: Insert the installation disc to the locked Win 7 PC Step 2: Restart your computer from the installation disc If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, check the information that came with your computer. You might need to change your computer's BIOS settings. Step 3: Choose your language settings, and then click Next Step 4: Click Repair your computer Step 5: Select a recovery option, and then click Next It is terrible when we lose the Windows password, but you do not need to worry about that from now on. Above four Windows 7 password recovery methods could help you to recover Windows 7 password and regain access the computer.
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