Monday 5 August 2013

Reset Windows 7 or Windows 8 Password

As always some of the best tips are found when you are looking for something else entirely. Here are a couple of nice tips for resetting local account password on Windows 7 & 8 - so simple and so insecure.

Booting the machine to a USB drive, DVD or slave the hard drive of another machine - rename some files and your in.

Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software

Reset a Windows 7 Password without using any third party software

An alternative I have seen is to replace the sticky keys file with the cmd.exe. Sticky keys is activated at the logon screen if you press shift five times – but instead you bring up a command prompt.

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