Yes, it is possible to reset your Windows Vista password. Not only is it possible, it's not even that difficult.
A password reset disk, which you can read more about in Step 12, is the only 'approved' way to reset a Windows Vista password but the trick we've described below is relatively easy to do and works almost every time.
Aside from this trick, there are other ways to reset or recover a forgotten Windows Vista password, including using a password recovery software tool. There are a variety of other possibilities as well.
if you know your password and just want to change it there's a clear procedure that does not involve following the steps in this article.
Follow these steps to reset your Windows Vista password:
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: It usually takes around 45 minutes to reset your Windows Vista password this way
How to Reset a Windows Vista Password
- Insert your Windows Vista installation DVD into your optical drive and then restart your computer. See How to Boot From a CD, DVD, or BD Disc if you need help.If you can't find, or never had, a Windows Vista install disc, it's okay to borrow someone else's. You're not going to reinstall Windows Vista or doing anything that breaks your, or your friend's, license agreement with Microsoft.
- Wait for the Install Windows screen to appear and then click the Next button.If Windows Vista starts normally, or you don't see this screen, then your computer probably booted from your hard drive instead of from your Vista disc. Restart your computer to try again or see the booting tutorial I linked to in the first step above for more help.
- Click Repair your computer, located near the bottom of the window, above the Microsoft copyright notice.I think everyone watches the Bahubali movie and because of this movie people remember the name of their actress and Tamannaah. Well our country is full of hot, cute and beautiful industry like Bollywood, Tollywood, Pollywood, and Kollywood. Most of the people only know Bollywood because they have,, and so many other sexy actresses. Tamil actress photos with names. Tollywood actress also very attractive and talented like,,,. She also have very good figure which can be seen from bikini picture of Tamannaah or sexy saree picture.Wait while your Windows Vista installation is located on your computer.
- Once your Windows Vista installation is found, look for the drive letter noted in the Location column.Most Windows Vista installations will show C: but sometimes it'll be D:. Whatever it may be, remember it or jot it down.
- From the Operating System list, of probably just one entry, highlight Windows Vista and then click Next. System Recovery Options will open.
- Choose Command Prompt from the list of recovery tools.
- In Command Prompt, type the following two commands, in this order, pressing Enter after each line to execute it:Answer Yes to the Overwrite question you're asked after executing the second command.If Windows Vista is installed on a drive other than the C: drive, something you determined in Step 4 above, change the four instances of c: in the two commands above with whatever drive letter it should be.
- Remove your Windows Vista disc and restart the computer.Wait for Windows to boot to the Vista login screen.
- On the Windows Vista login screen, look at the bottom-left corner for a little pie shaped icon. Click that icon.
- Now that Command Prompt is open, use the net user command as demonstrated below but replace myuser with your username and newpassword with the password you want to set:For example, I might do something like this:Put double quotes around your username if it includes spaces. For example: net user 'Tim Fisher' d0nth@km3.
- Close the Command Prompt window and log in with your new password!
- Now that you're back in, create a Windows Vista password reset disk. Once you have one of these, you'll never need to worry about forgetting your password or hacking your way back in like this again.
- Lastly, we recommend reversing the changes you made to make this trick work. You don't have to, but if you don't, you will no longer have access to Vista's accessibility features at the login screen. To undo everything, except for your password - which will keep working as you've reset it in Step 10, repeat Steps 1 through 6 exactly as outlined above. From the Command Prompt, execute the following command and then restart your computer again:
- Answer Yes when asked to confirm the overwriting of utilman.exe.
Not Using Windows Vista?
You can reset a Windows password using this utilman trick in other versions of Windows, too, but the process is a little different.
See How to Reset a Windows 8 Password or How to Reset a Windows 7 Password for our guides on resetting the Windows password in those versions of Windows.
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If you’ve forgotten your Windows password and you don’t have an install CD laying around, there’s no need to worry. Not only are there half a dozen complicated ways to reset the password, you can do it easily with the Offline Windows Password editor.
Of course, if you do have a Windows CD, you can reset your password the easy way with a simple trick.
Note: this should work on all versions of Windows, but if you are running Windows 8 or 8.1 and also using a Microsoft Account to login to your computer, you’ll need to reset your Microsoft Account password using a web browser on their web site.
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Create the Boot Disk
You’ll need to create a boot disk using another PC. If you don’t have another PC, you’ll have to bug one of your friends to use theirs. First, you’ll need to download the boot disk from here:
Then download and launch ImgBurn, which is a really simple piece of software that helps you burn an ISO image to a disk. Note: if you have some other application for burning an ISO image, you can use that instead.
Choose the Source, click the burn button, and create the boot disk.
You could also create a bootable USB drive instead if you’d like, the instructions are on the Offline NT download site.
Resetting Your Windows Password
Boot your PC from the boot disk (you might have to adjust the BIOS to allow booting from the CD). You’ll be prompted at a couple of screens, which you can generally just hit the Enter key at. For instance, this screen asks if you want to select the first partition, and [1] is already selected, so just hit Enter.
The same thing happens at the next step, where you have to choose the path to your registry. The default is fine, so hit Enter.
Next you can choose whether to use password reset or some other thing, so just hit Enter for password reset.
Password Recovery Disk
Next you’ll be prompted whether you want to edit users or the registry. You want to edit user passwords, so hit Enter again.
And now, the first screen where you’ll need to do something other than hit the Enter key. In this case, you’ll want to type the username that you want to reset. In my case, this was “geek”, so I just typed that (without the quotes). Then hit Enter.
Now you’ll want to probably just blank the password, which is already selected, so hit the Enter key again (you can always change it once you’re back in Windows).
And now, you’ll have to save what you just did. So type an exclamation point to quit (or the “!” symbol), then type the letter “y” to save.
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Windows Vista Password Reset
At this point it should say “EDIT COMPLETE”, and you can reboot your computer. You should be able to login without any problems—just make sure to go set a new password.