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How to reset Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 password if you forgot or lost windows password

It is truly very often for us to meet the password problem, sometimes we would forgot windows password or lost windows password, and could not login windows system and make a big trouble. At this time, you would hope to find a way to reset and recover the forgotten password.
Actually, a lot of methods are available to recover or reset the Windows password. But most of them are designed for PC experts, not common PC users, those solutions are too complicated to get it work for us. And in this article, I will show you a professional software tool which could help you to reset forgotten windows password easily.

Total Windows Password Reset is powerful password recovery software to reset Windows admin
passwords for you to login Windows OS without reinstalling the OS when you forgot windows password or lost windows password. It could remove windows password and set the password to blank. Just boot from the program CD/DVD or USB flash drive, choose the account you wish to reset and all will be done. It is not a method to crack or bypass windows password, just remove or delete windows password and set it to blank so you could login windows to set new password.
Below is the guide of how to reset windows password with this software, only 3 steps are needed to reset windows 7/Vista/XP password:

Step 1: Download the setup file of Total Windows Password Reset on the official website:
http://www.resetwindowspassword.net/downloads/totalwpr.exe
And install it on another PC. Then you could startup the password recovery software to prepare the bootable disc.

Step 2: Burn the windows password recovery bootable CD/DVD or USB disc with the software.
Now, you may select “Burn DVD/CD Disc” or “Use USB Disc”. If you select first method, you need to have a blank CDR/DVDR disk, a COMBO or DVDRW drive on the PC. If you select to use USB disc, you just need to pay attention: This USB devices would be formatted, so you must make sure to back up all the data before use it. And the maximum capacity of the USB devices cannot exceed 2G.
Tips: We recommend you to use the DVD/CD method to do the windows password reset, because some computers may not support USB start-up.

Below is step by step to show you how to burn the CD/DVD
1.  Launch Total Windows Password Reset main window, Click “Burn DVD/CD Disc” button.
2.  In BurnCC’s main window, click “Browse” button and in the open window, locate the file “TWPR.iso” on your desktop, select it and click on Open to get back to the main window. Then, click “Start” button.

3 Your DVD drive should open and insert a blank CD-R or DVD-R disc into the drive and close it. Click “OK” button. Your CD will be burned in a few minutes.
Tips: if there is already a CD/DVD disc in the drive before run the software, the CD drive will open automatically . Please close it again. The process will be continuing.

Below is step by step to show you how to burn the USB drive
1 Insert a USB drive into a USB slot on your computer and run Total Windows Password Reset, Click “Use USB Disc” button.
2 Click“Step1”button. Then, Right-click on the usb_format.exe and choose “Run as Administrator”.
3 In USB Disk Storage Format window, set the file system to FAT, Check the Quick Format box, check the Create DOS Bootable Disk, Browse to the DOS_files folder on your Desktop, click OK & then Start.

4. Click OK on the following window and then close the USB format tool. Your USB drive now is formatted.

5. Click “Step2” button and open the USB drive with your computer. Then, copy the files from the USB_files folder and paste them directly to the USB drives main directory. 2 of the files may become hidden and you will not see them on the USB drive. This is okay. Your USB drive is now complete.

Step 3: Boot your PC with the burned CD/DVD or USB disc to reset windows password.
You need to insert the Created CD/DVD or USB drive into the optional drive of the locked computer and reboot it.
Tips: It your computer still boots from hard drive Windows OS, it's necessary for you to change your COMS or BIOS settings to make it boot from CD/DVD or USB drive. If you don’t know how to set it, you may visit the official website:  http://www.resetwindowspassword.net or contact the computer manufacture.

The computer boots from CD/DVD or USB drive, then
1 The program will ask for the Windows OS hard drive volume. Enter the ID number of the hard drive volume that Windows is installed.

2 The program has detected all the user names of Windows and asks which user name password is to be removed. Enter the ID number for the User Name.

3 The program asks to confirm weather to remove the password or not. Enter "y" (yes) to confirm your action and "n" (no) to deny the action and hit "Enter".

4 The program asks whether to continue to remove passwords for other accounts. Enter "y" to continue and "n" to finish. Eject your USB from your computer first and press any key to restart the computer from Windows. Now you can log in Windows with an empty password (with no password.), just click “Enter” when you login.

If you have any questions of the procedure and the settings, you could visit the website:http://www.resetwindowspassword.net or send email to support@resetwindowspassword.net.

Now you could see that to reset or recover the admin login password of windows OS: XP, Vista, Windows 7 or 2000 is not so difficult and you can do it with ease.

The fingerprint recognition system is not a new thing anymore rwhich is very popular all over the world and useful in our daily life. Like entering your office, U.S.Customs & Border Protection checking, even logging in your computer.

Yes, it is very easy to login windows with a little finger-glide. But have you experienced that no matter How many times you glide your finger it have no response.In this instance, you might be very afraid of windows password lost by reason that there is a plenty of important data on your PC.

Then what should you do? One choose is fix the Fingerprint scanners, but this method will cost a lot of money. The other is use the Windows password function to solve the problem. Certainly, this is a very safer, faster and easier to use method for you.

Now, you are welcome to follow these methods below that can help you reset Windows password.

Method one: Login with the default administrator account

Step 1: Start Windows PC
Step 2: When you can see the Windows login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it'll show Classic Login box
Step 3: Type Administrator as Username and leave the Password field blank
Step 4: Press the Enter Key and then you can be able to login the default windows administrator account which is it created by default when install windows.

Note: When you input the key combination Please don't put the cursor on any account. And if you change the name or password before, you cannot login by this way.

Method two: Use the previous password reset disk

This method describes how to create and use a password reset disk for a computer that is a member of a domain. You can use a password reset disk to gain access to your Microsoft Windows Professional-based computer if you forget your password. Please click here to learn more.

Method three: Using Windows password remove software

Using Windows password remove software is could be the fastest and easiest way for you to reset your Windows password while you didn't create a password reset disk before.

Actually, recovering Windows password is not recommended at all. Because you cannot image how many combinations can a password be? And how large is the Windows password recovery software because it has to store so much information (Most is up to several Gs).and even more, you have to burn it to CD/DVD that will cost you hours to wait for the whole recover process.What is worse, the result may tell you that it cannot find the password. So the best way is to reset Windows password to blank.

Here I highly recommend Windows Password Reset, which is a reliable Windows password recovery program, which can recover lost admin or user password of Windows including Win 7, Vista, XP and so on. You are able to retrieve your Windows password and gain access to your system soon by burning a bootable CD/DVD, USB driver, floppy disk and so on. Click here learn more about how to remove the Windows password.

Follow these steps to remove your windows password:

    * Step1:Download the demo version from Windows Password Reset official website -- www.resetwindowspassword.com/
    * Step 2: Install Windows Password Reset.
    * Step 3: Burn the ISO into a blank CD/DVD. (The burn process might take you 2 minutes.)
    * Step 4: BIOS setting to restart from CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.

    * Step 5: Follow the instructions to reset Windows password step by step.

You could see that is only 5 steps for you to remove Windows password above.

No matter if your Fingerprint Recognition System broke or not, or no matter which version windows did you use, these three Windows password remove methods that I have mentioned above could help you login windows again as long as you forgot windows password for any reasons.

How to Recover Windows XP Administrator Password?
5 May 2010, 12:00 am

Computer plays a vital role nowadays. No matter for the business man or home computer user, they all need use PC to do work, watch TV & Video, play online games and so on. Indeed, in some sense computer is already becoming a part of our life. Most of computer users get use to create a Windows administrator password in case of privacy data lack. So, you can image that there are more and more people need to gain access to their PC when Windows XP administrator passwords forgot. Absolutely, you want get out of this situation without formatting and re-installing the operating system? Thus here I point out the easiest and safest method that can help you recover the administrator password. Let's roll it.

Part 1: Select Windows XP administrator password recovery tools

As you can't login Windows XP operating system, the only thing you can do is making a Windows password recovery disk and using the disk to recover your Windows password, and then you need:

1> a blank CD disk.

2> a computer that can download from Internet and have a CD writer.

3> a program that can recover Windows password. In this tutorial we highly recommended Windows Login Recovery as an example.

Part 2: Remove the forgotten Windows XP administrator password

Step 1. Download Windows Login Recovery from the official website.

Step 2. Install Windows Login Recovery on your Windows XP computer, then launch it (When launch the program, you will see the ISO image file has automatically entered. Please leave it as the default).

Step 3. Choose a device to burn the ISO image file, we select the CD writer.

Step 4. Click Burn and then start to burn the ISO image file (Please insert the blank CD disk into the CD writer first). When the burning completes, click OK and the disk will eject itself.

Step 5. Change your locked computer's BIOS settings to make it boot from CD-ROM: (3 steps)

1). Reboot your locked computer, press F2 or Delete to enter your BIOS setup during the booting.

2). On the Boot tab, set the Boot Device Priority. Make sure the CDROM Drives is before Hard Disk Drives.

3). Press F10 and Y followed by Enter to save the BIOS settings and reboot your locked computer.

Step 6. Use the created disk to remove the Windows XP administrator password: (5 steps)

1). Insert the created disk into the CD-ROM of the locked computer and reboot it (When the locked computer boots, you can see Windows Login Recovery initializing).

2). Enter the ID number of the hard drive volume that Windows is installed.

3). Enter the ID number for the User Name.

4). Enter y (yes) to confirm your action or n (no) to deny the action, then hit Enter.

5). Enter y to continue to remove passwords of other accounts or n to finish (If you enter n, the locked computer will reboot, please eject the created disk first).

Congratulations! You have successfully removed the Windows XP administrator password. Now you can login Windows XP without password and you can create a new one.

Please note:

1. Windows Login Recovery is a shareware program, the disk that you create by the trial version can't recover Windows password. You have to pay for it before making the Windows password recovery disk.

2. If your locked computer has no a CD-ROM, you can burn the ISO image file to a USB drive and use the USB drive to recover Windows XP administrator password.

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Get the Know on Windows 7 Starter Edition
4 May 2010, 12:00 am

Windows 7 is the newest operating system available. It is loaded with many cool features that make it quite desirable for individuals and businesses alike. But what if you are someone with a netbook? What can you do to get Windows 7? Most people know they can get Windows 7 in the Home Premium, Professional Upgrade and Ultimate Upgrade editions, but many people do not know that it also comes in a Starter version that is specifically designed for netbooks. Just as its name implies, it is a starter or basic version of Windows 7 but you will find that you still get many of the same benefits that made you want Windows 7 in the first place

One feature the Windows 7 Starter edition has that all the other editions have is the improved desktop navigation. This is done through a few different ways. One is with the new taskbar. On other operating systems you are stuck with having the icons show up in the order you opened them. With the new taskbar, you decide where they go. You will also have many different ways to view the windows with the new navigation. In the past, you could only view one window at a time. With Windows 7 you have three options for viewing windows. You can have multiple windows of different sizes open on your screen at one time with the snap feature. If you find yourself getting distracted and need to focus on one thing, you can just click on the window you want and shake your mouse and the other windows disappear with the shake feature. With the peek feature you can just put your mouse on a window when you have multiple open and it will allow you to see just that one. This can make getting tasks done easier when they require having multiple windows.

Another attractive feature that you are sure to love with the Windows 7 Starter edition is the Jump List. This is a taskbar that you can pin your favorite items to. It can be anything from your Media Player 12 library, your favorite document and even your favorite websites. This makes it much easier to find the items you use the most, without cluttering up your desktop, which can make finding these items difficult as well. You will even have Bluetooth capabilities with this operating system. This means that you can print documents on Bluetooth printers without all the wires.

The Starter edition is great for people who have netbooks. There are even more features not mentioned, such as Windows Search, improved security and even Internet Explorer 8 for faster, more secure internet browsing. Even if you are just using this version of Windows 7 to add to your home group, you can be assured that you will not be disappointed with this operating system. It is not only easier to use but will also be fun.

 

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What Windows 7 Can Do For You
4 May 2010, 12:00 am

Windows 7 is the newest operating system on the market. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that it is also the most technologically advanced as well. Many people had a bad taste left in their mouth after the catastrophe that was Vista. However, Microsoft has truly redeemed them selves with Windows 7. It has many great features and as it says it really does make using a computer simpler.

The most talked about feature with Windows 7 is the way that you can have different windows open at once and actually work on them. This is great news for people who have had to use dual monitors to accomplish this in the past. That is not to say that it has made dual monitors obsolete, just that it has made it possible to do the same tasks with one monitor now.  However, there are also a few other ways you can manipulate your windows with this new operating system. Windows 7 also has the shake and Peek features as well. With the shake, if you have many windows open and want to view just one, all you have to do is click on the window and shake your mouse. This will make all the other windows go away so you can focus on what you need to. With the Peek feature you can two things. If you point your mouse at the bottom right of the task bar, you will be able to see your desktop and any hidden icons you may have. Or you can move your cursor over a window and it will make all the other windows on top of it transparent so you can see the window you want and get the information you need off of it. With this you should also know that Microsoft has changed the taskbar on Windows 7 as well. You can now rearrange the programs on your taskbar to put them in the order that best suits you. You can even program your favorites to come in a certain order.

Another one of the many great features that Windows 7 has to offer is the enhanced media center. You will have the Play to feature. This allows you to play your favorite shows or music on your networked computers, TVs and even stereos using the new Media Player 12.  This can eliminate the need for have to hook up extra cables to be able to watch programs on your TV. You can also access your media library from any other computer, meaning you still have access to all your media when you are away. These are just a couple of the many features that make Windows 7 possibly the best operating system available. No matter what you are trying to do with your computer, Windows 7 will truly make it simpler. It takes the headache out of using a computer and makes it so even a novice can use the system with ease. Hopefully this will make people forget about the Vista mishap.

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