Monday, February 16, 2015

How to recover Windows password (Part 1)


You've been lock out of your PC.  You know you've typed the correct password but still it says your password is incorrect. 

Giving up already?  Well don't because there are may ways to replace or recover your lost password.

If you can log on to another Administrator account, this procedure might do the trick.

1.  At the log-on screen, do the following

[CTRL] + [ALT] + [DEL]
[DEL]


Type Administrator and hit Enter.

Note if your other Administrator account have a password, simply supply the correct one.

2.  If you were successful in step 1 then launch CMD and type the following

NET USER



This command will list all USERS in your system.

3.  Select the Account Username in question.  For example if your account name is WinXPert, type this command

NET USER WINXPERT *



Type the password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:

Just type password.and hit Enter
and retype the password.and hit Enter

Note that what you type will not be visible

4.  Log out and Log in to your account with the new password.

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