password reset

Hi there folks .I want to do as the title suggests by purchasing an upgrade disc, However i have a problem my son has the administrator account but has forgotten the password i am a normal account holder . i dont have windows installation disc windows preinstalled on thiswhen i...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to create and use a Password Reset Disk in Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive rather than a CD or floppy disk. Link Removed

I've gone and got myself into a slight pickle over my Security Center. Having had problems with a browser hijack I've cleared my system of anything remotely buggy as far as possible, but noticed the warning that my Security Center was off. So I duly headed over to Services and switched it on...

Hi, I have a toshiba satellite laptop within windows 7, used it 10-15 times in 6 months, only have 1 user account on it, never created a windows re-install disk or anything like that. Never had a problem until a month ago when at the windows login screen, it won't accept my pword. it had...

Hi all! So I just reinstalled windows 7 professional 64bit on a computer that had previously been running the same product perfectly fine. However, this time, every time I login I immediately see the message "User name or password is incorrect". After hitting ok to this message I get to...

Couldn't remember my password, used the password reset and now when i go to change my password back to something i can remember it tells me i cant use the password because i've used it within the last year. If you make me change it to something i'm not going to remember, i'm just going to...

Hello windows7forums community, I've made a bit of a whoopsey in lusrmgr.msc and have managed to set the password for the hidden admin account; which is fine - the problem is that I also removed the only local user's membership of the administrators group forgetting to check that I had enabled...

I was forced to change my user password this afternoon... And abruptly forgot it. I've attempted the fix here: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor but I hit a snag on step two, which asks for the "path to the registry directory". What do I input?

I'd like to request/suggest you do away with the 180 password re-use limitation. Forcing people to pick a new password is just a recipe for forcing them to always pick a new password since they (me) wont remember it and will use the password reset, at which point they'll have to pick a yet even...

Here goes.. if anyone can solve this for me, I will be so grateful I set a password and changed my username on my new Windows 7 - when I logged out - the password doesn't work and what comes up is "username or password is incorrect" - we tried everything, every variation of the password it...

Hi, I've just bought a new acer laptop with windows 7. I went through all of the start up screens and chose a simple password for my user. When i went to log in for the first time it wouldn't let me and said my password was wrong. I've tried various different spellings incase I did it wrong...

Hello someone has put in a password into my computer as a joke but he forgot it not very funny now :( Now I can't get in and I don't want to whipe it Please help thanks!

I have two 7 RC's installed on my hdd. My wife has put a logon password on one of them and forgotten it. I really need to get back into that install, it has my Office 2007 suite loaded into it. Can anyone help me to clear or change the password. If not, how can i share the Office suite...

I was using Build 7000 with updates through 2-18-09 on a reasonably basis. It was installed with no password being declared. Thus, no password was required when starting up. I did not use W-7 for two weeks, during which the original password "expired." Now, when I try to launch W-7 I get the...

So it seems like windows 7 corrupted the password I set for the admin account because it did not work. Probably because I set the password then set it up to do automatic login using the 'control userpasswords2' command. So now i am using a vista password cracker but it can't seem to find the...

Hello Windows Vista Community, I'm new here. Mostly because i'm here for one reason only. I have a serious issue with Vista on my PC which is causing me to use my causin's PC in order to find a solution. I feel like i am running out of time. Heres the issue gentleman, and i hear that this issue...