Microsoft account password – Password Recovery https://www.top-password.com/blog Provide useful password recovery tricks, guides and software Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:52:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 How to Bypass the Microsoft Account Password in Windows 8 https://www.top-password.com/blog/how-to-bypass-the-microsoft-account-password-in-windows-8/ Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:49:28 +0000 http://www.top-password.com/blog/?p=3070 Forgot your Microsoft account and get locked out of your Windows 8 system? How can you bypass the Microsoft account login? If you are logging in to Windows 8 using a Microsoft account you should always have an additional local account to use in case your Microsoft login doesn’t work for whatever reason. But in most situations we might find that the Microsoft account is the only user account on our computers when we forgot its password. Luckily, there is a quick way to bypass the Microsoft account password in Windows 8.

How to Bypass the Microsoft Account Password in Windows 8?

  1. Download PCUnlocker using an alternate PC which you have full access to. Once it’s finished, double-click the zip file to extract it. You will then need to burn the ISO file to a writable CD using a program like ISO2Disc or ImgBurn.
  2. Insert the CD into the computer that you need to bypass the Microsoft account password on and boot from it. You may have to change the computer’s boot order in the BIOS in order to boot from the CD.
  3. If you boot from the CD successfully, the computer will load the Windows PE operating system from the CD. When the boot process is complete, you’ll see the PCUnlocker program. It shows you a list of local user accounts which are detected from the Windows SAM registry file.

  4. Choose the local account which is linked to your Microsoft account, and then click on “Reset Password” button. The program will change your Microsoft account login to Password123 by default.
  5. Restart your computer and take out the CD from the CD drive. If the password reset was successful then you should be able to log into your Windows 8 Microsoft account with new password.

Note that PCUnlocker also works for Windows 8.1. It should be a unique tool for Windows 8 users to bypass the Microsoft account login easily. Save you the trouble of forgetting Windows password in an easy way!

]]> How to Log in If You Forgot Microsoft Account Password in Windows 8 https://www.top-password.com/blog/how-to-log-in-if-you-forgot-microsoft-account-password-in-windows-8/ Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:49:14 +0000 http://www.top-password.com/blog/?p=1559 A Microsoft account — a Hotmail account or Windows Live ID — is a new way to sign in to any PC running Windows 8. After switching from local account to Microsoft account, you can’t log in to your local account any longer, until you switch back to local account again. What to do if you forgot the password of your Microsoft account in Windows 8?

There are tons of password recovery software which can help you recover or reset Windows local account password. But none of them support the new sign-in account – Microsoft account. In this tutorial I will show you how to reset Microsoft account password in Windows 8 so you can sign in with a new password.

Most people think that an internet connection is needed in order to log in Windows 8 with a Microsoft account, but you will discover that Windows 8 allows you to log in even without internet. Actually, your Microsoft password will be cached locally by Windows 8 when you set up a Microsoft account. Next time when you login, it will attempt to connect to internet and verify your entered password. If the password is incorrect or there is no internet connection, Windows will use the cached login credentials to verify your password.

The cached passwords are stored as hashes in the local system registry, so it is difficult to crack or recover the original password. However, it’s possible to update the cached password hash using a new password, so you can log in the system with a new password in case your actual Hotmail password is lost or forgotten. Reset Windows Password is the right software which can help you easily reset Microsoft account password by running from a bootable CD or USB drive.

Reset Windows Password utility comes as an ISO image file. Just burn the ISO image to a CD or USB drive on an alternative computer, then use the disc to boot your locked Windows 8 computer. The password reset program inside the disc will launch and it allows you to reset the password of your Microsoft account easily.

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