The other day I was very angry and I changed my password without thinking and I somehow managed to not remember it. Now I’m locked out of my windows 7 administrator account and there’s a ton of work I need to be doing. Is there any legal software or a method to recover or reset my password?

Forgot Windows 7 password? Get locked out of your only administrator account? Password Recovery Bundle 2013 can help in this situation. All Windows passwords are encrypted for security purposes, so getting into an account where you’ve forgotten the password is nigh-on impossible without outside help. In order to unlock your administrator account, Password Recovery Bundle 2013 cracks your Windows 7 passwords from a bootdisk (ie. USB, CD or anything).

How to Unlock Windows 7 Administrator Account?

This method requires you to create a bootable password unlocker CD on an alternative computer. After creating the CD, you can use it to boot your target computer which is locked out, and the password reset utility inside the CD enables you to unlock Windows 7 administrator account quickly and easily.

1. Download Password Recovery Bundle 2013 on an alternative computer. Launch the program after installing, and then click on Windows Password button. Follow the on-screen instructions to create a bootable password unlocker CD.
2. Once you’ve created the CD, you place the CD into the computer with a locked-out administrator account, and turn on the PC. If the computer does not automatically boot from the CD drive, you may need to change your boot order or use a boot menu to select the CD you want to boot from.
3. The PC reads the information on the CD and finally start the Reset Windows Password program. It shows a list of user accounts inside the SAM database for your Windows 7 installation.
   
4. Highlight your locked-out administrator account, and click on Reset Password button. It will remove the password and restore the user account’s properties which get you locked out. Now restart the computer and you can then log back into Windows 7 with a blank password.

Locked out of Windows 7 administrator account? Follow the steps above to create a bootable password unlocker CD and you can unlock the administrator account in minutes. It’s so easy!

My laptop was installed with Windows 7 with only one account, but no reset disk was created. Now I had forgotten my password and don’t know how to reset it. Had tried Ophcrack to burn its ISO into a CD, but failed to boot my laptop. Is there any way to reset my password without formatting my whole system disk?

Locked out of Windows 7 by forgotten password? Probably 90% of the Windows 7 users never know about an effective way to reset a forgotten Windows 7 password. Actually, password resetting is the fastest and the most secure option to regain access to your system in case the login password is lost or forgotten. So here’s how to do it the easiest way, from scratch in 10 minutes.

How to Reset Forgotten Windows 7 Password?

You need an alternative computer with CD burner and a blank CD in order to make a bootable Windows 7 password reset disk. To do that download the Reset Windows Password utility, unzip the download file and you’ll get an ISO image. Burn the ISO image to a CD using your favorite CD burning software. If you don’t have a CD burner, let’s say you have a netbook PC, then you can do a Windows 7 password reset USB instead.

After you have created a bootable Windows 7 password reset disk or USB as mentioned above, go and boot the PC you want to reset its password with this reset disk or USB. Once the PC starts to boot, it will load the operating system inside the password reset disk and launch the Reset Windows Password program.

Choose the user account whose password you want to reset, then click on Reset Password button. It will reset your forgotten Windows 7 password and unlock the user account in no time.

Now take out the password reset disk and restart the computer. You can then log in to Windows 7 without being asked for a password. You’ll find that all files on your hard drive stay intact. No need to reinstall Windows and run the risk of losing your data when you are locked out of Windows 7 by forgotten password.

A friend of mine who is pretty computer illiterate recently managed to lock himself out of Windows 7. He never created a second account, so the only account the exists on the PC is the default administrator account which is locked out. How can I resolve this issue?

Locked out of Windows 7/Vista/XP? Your administrator account was locked out due to invalid login attempts, or you accidentally disabled the account? This could be a real big problem! Even if you know the right password, you are still not allowed to log in to your computer and will lost access to your computer files and settings. Is it possible to unlock your Windows account without reinstalling the operating system?

Here we’ll show you an easy way to unlock any Windows account on Windows 7/Vista/XP. Just find another computer to create a Windows password unlocker bootdisk, then you can use it to boot off your computer and unlock the locked-out user account.

How to Unlock Computer When You Are Locked Out of Windows 7/Vista/XP?

The password-unlocking procedure can be divided into 3 steps. Follow the steps you can unlock any user account and regain access to your Windows 7/Vista/XP immediately.

Step 1: Create a Windows Password Unlocker Disk

The first thing you’ll need to do is create a bootable password unlocker disk. This may require you to grab a thumb drive and use a friend’s computer to do this. Follow the instructions to create a password unlocker disk:

1. Download the Reset Windows Password package.
2. Once you’ve downloaded the package, unzip the download file and you’ll get the CD/DVD ISO image file: ResetWindowsPwd.iso, which you can burn it onto a CD, DVD or USB thumb drive.
3. Burn the ISO image to a USB thumb drive using the ISO2Disc tool.

Once the password unlocker disk is created successfully, you can then use it to boot your locked computer and unlock your Windows account.

Step 2: Boot from Password Unlocker Disk

Now you need to set your locked computer to boot from the password unlocker disk you’ve created. Booting from a USB thumb drive can be done fairly easily using BIOS settings. Every BIOS is a little different, though you should be able to access it using the instructions that appear on screen when you first power up your machine and find a boot order or option to select boot device. Holding DEL or F12 when rebooting can usually get you where you need to be. Some systems are different, however.

If you still can’t figure out how to make your computer boot from USB thumb drive, please refer to this article:

How to Set Your Computer to Boot from CD or USB Drive

Step 3: Unlock Windows Account Which is Locked Out or Disabled

Once you’ve configured the locked computer correctly, plug in your USB thumb drive and turn on the computer. It will boot from the password unlocker disk. Once the boot procedure is complete, it will launch the Reset Windows Password program. This is the software you’ll need to use to unlock Windows account.

The software allows you to select the Windows SAM registry hive from the drop-down list. It will then display a list of Windows user accounts inside the SAM file. Choose your desired user account and then click on the Reset Password button. It will remove the password and unlock the user account as well.

Now remove the password unlocker disk and restart the computer, you’ll be able to log in to your computer successfully.

Conclusion

There are some precautionary steps you can take before being locked out of Windows 7/Vista/XP.  Prepare a Windows password unlocker bootdisk or create a secondary admin account are very useful for you to unlock any locked-out or disabled Windows account.