Sometimes a situation may arise when you need to remove your Windows login password. This may be necessary when the user has forgotten the Windows password and needs to remove the Windows password or when other emergency situations arise. We often receive questions: how to remove the password when logging into Windows, how to remove the password in Window, how to reset the Windows password on a laptop or computer. There are several ways to remove the password when logging into Windows. An easy way to reset your Windows password is to remove your password from Windows login using the program. In this article we will tell you how to quickly and easily remove a login password for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 using a program that is distributed free of charge and can be freely downloaded on the program developer’s website.
Password reset program for Windows
As mentioned above, you can reset your Windows login password different ways including by downloading installation disk and using the command line, while they are quite complex to simple user. Easier to use to reset your account password in Windows bootable CD/ DVD disc or flash drive, which are created using special programs. There are several programs for removing passwords on Windows, but almost all of them are paid and their cost is quite high. To solve the problem of resetting your Windows login password, it compares favorably with other programs Free program Windows Password Recovery - Lazesoft Recover My Password Home Edition, which can be freely downloaded from the program developer’s website and used by home users. The program is easy to install, has a convenient and clear interface. There is no Russian language in the program, for those who have not studied much English language its use will not cause problems. Using the program you can reset the password in Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. The program supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions. In addition to resetting the password, using the program you can perform other manipulations with administrator and user accounts on the computer. The program was tested by the authors of the article to reset the administrator password on a computer running Windows control 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7. In all cases, passwords were successfully removed and access to the computer was opened.
How to use a program to reset your Windows login password
First you need to download the program from the official website and install it on the computer on which a bootable CD/DVD disk or bootable USB drive will be created. If you are creating a CD/DVD disc, your computer or laptop must have a CD/DVD drive. There is no need for a disc burning program; Lazesoft Recover My Password Home Edition burns discs with its built-in tools. After downloading the program, you need to install it on your computer. Installing the program is standard and will not cause any difficulties if the user has at least once installed any program on the computer before. The program contains a reference manual in English.
Let's launch the program. Next, the program asks you to select the Windows version of the target computer (the computer on which the login password will be removed). When testing the program, we did not select the Windows version and left this setting unchanged, as in the picture below (Do not specify the version operating system target computer). With this setup, we were able to remove login passwords for Windows 10, 8.1, 7 64-bit without any problems. Perhaps the choice of operating system is important for other manipulations with accounts that the program allows you to do. Click NEXT and move on.
Next, we choose on what media we will create the boot disk. If we create a boot disk on a CD/DVD disc, select CD/DVD, as in the figure below. The program itself will determine the disc writing speed. You can manually reduce the speed so that the disc is recorded at a higher quality.
If you are creating a bootable USB drive, select USB Flash, as in the picture below. The program will select the drive letter that is displayed in the system for the removable media (H in the picture, yours may be different). If you have several removable media connected to your computer, you need to select the one on which the bootable USB media will be created.
You can also create a disk image by selecting ISO Image, which you can then burn to a disk on another computer using a disk burning program or use to create a multiboot flash drive. Next, click Start and get a ready-made bootable CD or DVD, depending on the disc used (196 MB is removed from the CD without any problems) or a bootable USB flash drive.
After this, you need to set the BOOT section in the BIOS of your computer or laptop to boot from a CD/DVD drive or USB. In some laptops and computers, you can call up the Boot Devace Option with a separate key (which you need to look at in the instructions for your computer or laptop). We select the required device and boot the computer or laptop from the boot disk we created.
New laptops and computers may have a problem booting from a disk or flash drive due to an option in the BIOS secure boot, which prevents the computer from booting from other devices. To solve this problem you need to disable BIOS secure boot and enable (enabled) Legacy Support. After this, the laptop or computer can be booted from other devices. When the password is reset, you can return the original settings in the BIOS.
After we have configured booting from our media, we boot the computer from the disk we created. When loading, a choice appears, in our case we select Live CD, when loading from a flash drive we select USB.
The program begins to load, we see the loading process on the screen.
After loading it starts with Windows disk and we see such a picture. The Reset Windows Password task is selected, click NEXT
The program asks us if we are using it for non-commercial purposes and tells us that for commercial use we must purchase a license. Click Yes (use for non-commercial purposes).
A window like this appears, the program searches for accounts on the computer.
There is one administrator account on this computer, Account Name 1. This window will display all existing accounts on the computer. Select the account for which you want to reset the password and click Next.
A window appears displaying the password reset.
After the password is reset, we are taken to a menu where we can open a file manager or reset the password on another computer account.
To exit the program, click the Start button, then Shut Down Computer
The program asks for exit confirmation, click OK. The computer turns off.
After exiting the program, remove the boot disk or flash drive from the computer and configure boot from hard drive computer. That's it, the login password has been removed, the computer boots and does not require a password to log into the user account.
If you can’t log into Windows 7 because 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 the 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 methods to unlock 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 with bootable usb-flash drives. The mechanism of the program is somewhat different from password selection algorithms similar applications and includes several components:
- LM hash algorithm- passwords are stored in this format in Windows 7, the number of characters of which does not exceed 15;
- rainbow tables- the mechanism is designed to recover encrypted passwords through the use of hashes with a complex process of reverse decryption.
The program can also unlock complex passwords by extracting them from registry files and then decrypting them 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 using the following methods: reasons:
- the password for one account is lost, but there are no other accounts;
- It is not possible to access any user profile on this computer.
If you encounter such a case, you will have to follow instructions, which boils down to the following: creating a bootable USB drive based on a special version of Ophcrack and booting from this media to restore access to the account. In more detail, these instructions look like this:
For inexperienced users, it is recommended to select the first (graphical) operating mode of OphCrack: Ophcrack Graphic mode. But it should be taken into account that in graphical mode the program may not start, but in text mode it 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 in more detail on using its console version. Although the only peculiarity here is the absence of windows and buttons. After launching the console version of the utility, it will automatically detect passwords for all accounts and display them in the “ Results».
Removing a password from Windows
What to do if you forgot administrator account password? The program will also help here Ophcrack, But in the presence of network connection to download it. Let's 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».
Using system recovery tools
What to do, if no access to the Internet or another computer, do I need to log in to my account? Will help solve the problem Bootable USB drive or disk, containing the operating system distribution Windows systems 7 used on a computer.
In this case, reset your password Windows administrator 7 is maximally implemented as follows.
- We connect the boot drive of the same edition of the “seven” as installed on the PC.
- Reboot the PC.
- Calling boot menu computer/laptop. This can be done using the F2, F9, F11 or other keys specified in the motherboard manual or on the BIOS boot screen.
- In the list of available devices, select the target USB drive to start the computer from.
- Press any key to boot from the selected media.
- 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 OS recovery tools.
- In the parameters we select command line to call the tool for executing system commands.
- In the window that appears, enter the command regedit and execute it using the Enter key. This will open the classic editor window. system registry.
- In this window, as in file manager with directories displayed in the form of a tree, go to the HKLM section.
- Through the main menu, call the command "", located in the menu " File».
- Select the file " config» - « SYSTEM", which has no extension.
- Set any file name without using Cyrillic characters and confirm it by pressing the enter button.
- Let's go to the bush " HKLM" - "entered_hive_name" - Setup.
- Double-click to open the key editing menu “ CmdLine».
- For the parameter value, enter “ cmd.exe" to launch the command line before loading Windows 7.
- In the same way we set the value “ Setup Type"equal" 2 ».
- Select a new bush in HKLM.
- Call the command " Unload bush", located in the menu item " File».
- We restart the computer, as a result of which the command line will appear.
- At the command line, enter a command like net user username password and execute it with the Enter key. After this, 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.
Creating a flash drive to instantly reset a password for a specific account
If you don't want a repeat of the situation with forgotten password, it is better to make a floppy disk to reset it. By floppy disk we mean a flash drive, because the use of floppy disks and disks has not been relevant in recent years.
As a result, the wizard will generate a boot disk necessary to unlock the account for which the password has been lost.
Now, if for some reason you cannot log into Windows 7, click the Reset password button, insert the created disk or flash drive and follow the instructions. which boil down to clicking the Next button.
After reinstalling the system, changing the password, or creating a new account, the password reset disk will have to be created again.
Knowing how to reset the Windows 7 administrator password and having a flash drive with the key file, a forgotten password will no longer be a problem.
Video on the topic
How to reset your password in Windows 7 using Password & Registry Editor. As you know, anything can happen in life, you can even forget the password to log into Windows, and if this happens, then you can easily reset the password in Windows 7, the good news is that the whole procedure is not at all complicated.
If you have forgotten your password, and you do not have Win 7, but XP or Win 8, then the option discussed below will also suit you. If you are reading these lines and do not have Forgotten password problems, then I recommend reading to the end and taking into account the information received.
And who knows, you might need help pretty girl who forgot her login password. An excellent chance to visit and heroically return access to the PC to the lovely lady, and then... And then I think it’s clear. Young woman VK is sitting, and you are smoking on the balcony! ;-)
Algorithm of actions:
- Create a bootable “USB” with a program size of only (4.12 MB).
— Procedure for resetting a password in Windows 7.
As has already become clear, you need a regular flash drive, pre-formatted in “ FAT32" How to format a flash drive can be read in the article (Creating bootable USB flash drive with Windows).
Creating a flash drive to reset your password.
Next we need to select the partition where Windows is located. In my case it is " / dev/ sda1 " Opposite each section on the left you can see numbers (1 2 3 4). The required section is selected using these numbers. That is, to choose mine " / dev/ sda1 "and it is located opposite the unit, I need to enter " 1 " and press " Enter»
Once you decide on the section, and press “Enter”, let’s see what happens next! As can be seen from the last line, the program itself found the section “ Windows/ System32/ Config"Okay, that's how it should be. This section contains the “SAM” file, this is what the program needs, it contains the “Hash” of passwords.
Here we just click “ Enter»
Next, let's look at what the program offers us. IN in this case We are interested in (Password reset), that is, resetting passwords. This parameter is located under the number " 1 "so enter 1 and, as usual, click " Enter»
Now the program again offers several options for action. Namely, open the system registry editor with the “ 9 “- this is not interesting to us at all!
We are interested in the first option, enter the number “1” and Enter
It is at this stage that the most interesting part comes. The program showed us all existing users in the system. Our task is to select the user who needs to reset the password
(Well, you should have decided on this a long time ago!)
More details about what's here and how: Here we see in the column “ RID» unique number for each user. Below I will explain why we need this “ RID"needed. Next, the “Username” column lists all existing users in the system.
Admin: Actually, soon we will reset the password for this user. In a collumn " Admin? “You can see what he represents, in this case he has the rights of “Administrator”.
User: A normal account that does not have administrator rights.
4<8=8 AB@0 B>@ : This is our built-in administrator account. The inscription in this form is due to the Russian-language version of Windows.
> ABL: This doesn’t interest us at all, since this is “Guest"
To reset a user's password, you need to enter it " RID" or his name if it is in English. We will reset the password using "RID" since entering the name is easy, and there is a feature with "RID" that is worth knowing about.
If you look at the penultimate line, you can see in it the following fragment of text “ 0 x< RID> " this means that the user number must be entered with " 0 x" That is, RID Admin is like this “ 03 e8 " means you need to enter " 0 x03 e8 ».
I enter " 0 x03 e8 " and Enter
Now the program knows which user to work with and will offer us 4 options for action.
1
– Reset password, in other words, the user will not have a password.
2
– In this option, you can set a password for the user. Win 7 doesn't work.
3
– Promote the user to administrator if he is not one.
4
– If the user is blocked by the admin, you can unblock him.
In this case, we are interested in resetting the user’s password, so we type “ 1 " and Enter
We observe the message "" good!!! The password reset was successful. But it’s too early to reboot and break into the system without a password, since you need to shut down the program correctly and save all changes!
Enter " Exclamation mark(!)" and again, as always, Enter
That's all, the work of resetting the password is finished. All that remains is to press the key combination “CTRL + ALT + DELETE” and the computer will reboot. Now you can log in as Admin without a password.
As we see, in fact reset windows password It’s not difficult and any user can perform these steps. I advise you to get yourself a flash drive with this program, just in case.
If you have questions on this topic or additions, write in the comments, I will be glad!
A fairly common problem is to recover a password that you forgot. I won’t write why this happens, but I wrote about it in articles and. But what if you have a different version of the system? To do this, it will be easier to use a program that works in versions of Windows from 2000 to 8.
Reset windows password using a program from Lazesoft - Recover My Password .
You can download a free program to disable the Windows password by going to.
Password reset program features:
List of supported operating systems:
The program is designed to burn a boot disk. With its help, you can not only record it onto a CD/DVD disc, but you can also record it yourself onto a disk or USB flash drive.
Removing the Windows login password.
choose one of three methods: via disk, USB or create an ISO.
Of course, the flash drive must be formatted without your data.
and click "Commit"
We are waiting for this inscription to appear, which “tells” us that everything is done and now we need to boot from the device. You can read right there in the window how to boot from disk or from USB flash drives(Only the site will open in English).
We boot from our device (in this case from a flash drive).
Let me remind you that to boot from a flash drive or disk, you need to press f2 or del(depending on BIOS version)
and select in Boot divce pririty Your device.
Tax. Loaded up. Now click on this field and select the system
Next, we choose what we want to do with the password.
Many users protect their account with a password from unauthorized access. Undoubtedly, using a password increases the level of security and allows you to protect personal data. Reset Windows Password is relevant in case of its loss or when the user simply forgot the password and cannot log into his previously created account. There are several ways to reset a password, but there is no need to consider everything, so we will consider only the simplest and most effective method.
The most simple method Windows password reset be it the operating system XP, 7 or 8 - using the 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 Toolset”).
Simply put, the ERD Commander software toolkit is boot 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 of the Windows operating system.
In order to reset your Windows password, you will need an ERD Commander image, which you can download by entering the request in search engines Yandex or Google, the result will not keep you waiting. We have downloaded the image, now we need to burn it to removable media, I didn’t have a CD at hand, so I chose a USB drive. If you don’t know “how to make a bootable USB flash drive,” 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 it on the I/O system Bios download from the primary device and indicate your removable storage device.
If all the above steps are performed correctly, a window will appear in front of you with a selection of operating systems and their bit capacity. Choose the one you need.
After a while, the system will prompt you to select an operating system from the list, indicate your system.
The “System Recovery Options” window will appear; select the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset menu item.
Note: for the Windows XP operating system, 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 changes and restart your computer, when logging into your account, enter your New Password. The Windows password reset procedure has been completed successfully!