Need help for Windows Vista password recovery? This article lists 4 questions as well as corresponding answers to help you easily and quickly recover Windows Vista password.
(prHWY.com) July 9, 2012 - LA, CA -- Forgetting password is a common occurrence, so is Vista password forgetting. Unlike other passwords such as passwords for Email accounts, blogs etc, Vista password cannot be found through a certain alternate Email address. Therefore, to recover Windows Vista password should figure out other feasible ways.
Well, before we start to recover Windows Vista password, we should first ask ourselves some questions:
Question 1: Do I have other available user accounts on my Vista machine?
If you are lucky enough, you might regain access to your locked account with the help of other user accounts on your PC. But the pre-condition is that the still accessible user account should be with administrative privileges. OK, if the account doesn't miss the precondition, let's recover the forgotten Vista password now:
Step 1: Log on your Vista computer with the accessible user.
Step 2: Right-click "My Computer" and select "Management".
Step 3: Click Local User and Groups, and then click Users. Now all the accounts will be listed.
Step 4: Right-click the password-forgotten user account and select Set password.
Step 5: Enter the password and confirm later.
Question 2: Do I have a Windows Vista password recovery disk?
In each Windows-based computer, users are allowed to create a password recovery disk in advance to prevent the computer from being locked. If you have such one, then you can use it to recover Windows Vista password as follows:
1. In the Windows Login Screen, after you type your username and forgotten password in the columns, a message "Password incorrect" will show, you then just click "Ok" to close the message.
2. Insert your early created password recovery disk and then click on "Reset password" option to open Password Reset Wizard. Click next button to continue.
3. Now you can follow the simple wizard to reset the Vista password step by step.
Question 3: Do I have important data on my computer?
If possible, you don't have important data on your computer or you have already backed up the data in somewhere else, then now you can feel free to regain access to your computer by system reinstallation. If you are familiar at computing, then do it yourself. If not, find somebody who knows help you make it.
However, my humble suggestion is that don't reinstall system to rescue a locked computer, since you will be surely to lose some data more or less.
Question 4: Do I have another accessible computer?
If your computer has already been completely locked without any other possible access or a Vista password recovery disk, now you have the last chance--recover Vista password with Windows Password Master Std.
Windows Password Master Std is the best tool designed for lost or forgotten Windows password recovery. It creates a bootable CD/DVD as Vista password recovery disk on an accessible computer to finally reset the forgotten Vista password and thus rescue the locked computer.
Source:
http://www.password-master.net/resource/recover-windows-vista-password.htm
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