Reset Windows Password is the powerful password reset bootdisk which comes with the ability of resetting login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP. Using the boot disk to remove a login password is much easier than re-installing Windows. No need to take your PC to a computer repair shop or call a technician to your home to fix the issue for you. You can reset forgotten Windows login password on your own.

How to Reset Login Password in Windows 7/Vista/XP?

1. Download the zip archive of Reset Windows Password utility to an alternative computer. Once you download the zip file, just unzip it and burn the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file to a blank CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc.
2. Insert the bootdisk you’ve created into the target computer whose login password you want to reset. Power on the computer and set it to boot from your bootdisk instead of the local hard drive.
3. Shortly after loading the operating system inside the bootdisk, it will open up the Reset Windows Password program. You’ll see the Windows SAM registry hive and a list of Windows user accounts which are detected by the program.
   
4. Choose a user account and then click on Reset Password button, it will reset your login password immediately.

The last step is remove the bootdisk and restart the computer. You’ll find that you can log in to your desired account with a blank password. Additionally, you can use the same bootdisk to reset login password for domain user accounts in Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. I think every system/network administrators should have a copy of the password reset bootdisk in their toolbox.

How to Hack Windows 8/7/Vista/XP Login Password?

1. Click here to download the Reset Windows Password software. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you’ll find the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.
2. Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using any CD/DVD recording software such as BurnCDCC or ISO2Disc.
3. Place the Live CD you’ve created in the CD drive of your computer with a password you want to hack. Head into the computer BIOS and set your computer to boot from CD. If you don’t know how to boot into BIOS, please refer to your computer’s manual.
4. The boot procedure may take one or two minutes, and the Reset Windows Password program will start.

   

5. From the main window of Reset Windows Password program, you could see the Windows SAM registry file and user accounts inside the SAM file.
6. Choose the user account whose password you want to hack, and then click on the Reset Password button. It will blank your forgotten/unknown password instantly.

Eject the CD and boot your computer from local hard drive, you can immediately log on your computer with a blank password. Easy, wasn’t it?

The virtual hard drive (VHD) is stored as a .vhd or .vhdx file on your physical disk. By mounting a virtual hard drive, you can easily copy files to and from the virtual disk. Additionally, Windows 11/10/8/7 can be configured to boot from a VHD. In this tutorial we’ll go through the steps of creating a virtual hard drive (VHD) in Windows 11/10/8/7.

How to Create a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) in Windows 11/10/8/7?

1. Press the Windows + R key combination to bring up a Run box, type compmgmt.msc and hit Enter.

   

2. The Computer Management dialog opens, click Disk Management in the left pane of the window and wait until you see all currently installed disks in the right pane.
3. Right-click Disk Management and then select Create VHD.

   

4. Click Browse to choose the location where you want your VHD stored, and give it a descriptive name. Choose the size you want it to be, and select dynamic or a fixed. If you want the disk to expand in size as you add files to it, then pick Dynamically expanding. Check Fixed size if you want a specific size and for it to stay that way. Click OK.

   

5. You will see the virtual hard drive listed as unallocated space in Disk Management. Right click on the virtual hard drive (Disk 1) and select Initialize Disk.

   

6. Press OK in the Initialize Disk box.

   

7. Now it is time to create a volume by right-clicking the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.

   

8. The New Simple Volume Wizard starts up and just press Next until the wizard is complete.

   

9. Now the new virtual disk is ready to be used, just like any other disk. You can see the virtual hard drive on your computer.

   

   Windows will automatically dismount the virtual hard drive after a restart. You can also manually dismount the drive by right-clicking it in File Explorer and selecting Eject.

10. Whenever you need to mount a vhd/vhdx file as a virtual hard disk, just right-click it in File Explorer and choose Mount.

    

Note: Since the boot manager of Windows 7/Vista is not well compatible with Windows 8, please make sure that you install 7/Vista before installing Windows 8. If you install Windows 8 first and then install the old versions of Windows, the Windows 8 boot menu will be lost in the dual-boot menu and you won’t be able to boot into Windows 8 anymore.

How to Dual Boot Windows 8 and Windows 7?

Follow this guide to configure your Windows 7 or Vista system to dual-boot Windows 8. The whole procedure can be divided into 3 steps: Create a new partition, Install Windows 8 and optionally set default boot operating system.

Step 1: Create A New Partition

You need to create a new partition of at least 16GB ( 20GB for 64-bit Windows 8 ) for your Windows 8 installation. If there is already a free partition up to the requirement, just skip this step. Otherwise you need to shrink the existing partition to create unallocated disk space, from which you create a new partition during the installation of Windows 8.

1. Open the Start Menu and right click on the Computer option. Click Manage, and in the window that appears, click on Disk Management in the left sidebar.
2. Right-click the volume you want to shrink, and then click Shrink Volume.
3. Shrink it down so you have at least 16GB of space left on the end of the drive, and click OK.

Step 2: Install Windows 8

Create a Windows 8 installation disk, boot from it and start the Windows 8 setup. Follow this step-by-step guide: How To Install Windows 8 from USB Flash Drive.

For a dual-boot setup, the steps are the same as in that guide. The only difference is that when you are asked to select where to install Windows 8, select the partition that you created and make sure you don’t select the partitions where other operating systems are installed.

Step 3: Set Default Boot Operating System

When the installation is complete, Windows Setup will reboot your system and you will then see the new Windows 8 style dual boot screen shown as follow.

As you can see, Windows 8 is set as your default boot operating system.If you plan to use it as a secondary operating system and change the default boot operating system, you can click the Change defaults or choose other options at the bottom of the boot screen.

Click on Start button and type HomeGroup in search box, click HomeGroup from search results.

Under “Other homegroup actions” options, you’ll see the “View or print homegroup password” link.

Click on the “View or print homegroup password” link, this will find your HomeGroup password immediately.

Lastly, remember in order to make HomeGroup to work you need at least two or more computers that are connected in the same network. Once you find out the password, type the password in another computer and you’ll see a list of users that are currently in your HomeGroup. Depending on the settings you set to share which folder you can now easily access files between others.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Windows Firewall.
4. On the Firewall section, on the left pane, click the  Allow a Program or a Feature through the Windows Firewall.
5. Click the Change Settings button on the right side of the window, right above the list of programs which have got Internet access.
6. Untick all applications or those suspicious features you want to check, control or know what they are for. This will stop them from accessing to the Internet.
7. Click the OK button at the end of the list.
8. Next time these applications will need to gain access to the Web they will need your approval.