How to reset the administrator password on Windows 7

Last updated Jun 23, 2017 518

How to reset password on Windows 7 ? It happens to enter a password and perhaps be convinced to have entered one that does not reveal the original, or, more simply, we entered without realizing some wrong character from the keyboard, or even more simply we forget. If we cannot find the password for this can become a serious problem. How then? Follow the step by step guide to understand the proceedings.

First, we must recover the Windows installation DVD that has been provided with the PC. Once you recovered to insert it into the drive and reboot the system. Startup select, as the boot device, the DVD player. We await loading Windows and choose the keyboard layout, after which we select the item Repair your computer.
Windows will recognize without saying that our PC has already installed the operating system. Leave the check in ” Utilizze recovery tools for groped to solve problems starting Windows ” and click ” Next “, once this is done we proceed, from the next click on the tab ” Command Prompt “, then type the command ” regedit ” and we move into the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Select the key that we need to click on File – Load … Let’s address as the destination C:\Windows\System32\config, now choose to load the value SYSTEM. You will be asked to give a name to the key, choose Reset to give it more visibility. Just be careful to edit the registry are delicate operations and an error could create irreversible damage.
After you create the new key we enter it from the path we move in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\reset\Setup, on the right we have a window of values, we should go and change the value ” System Type “. set the value 2. We also modify the string ” cmdline ” and set value cmd.exe.
Completed the third step, we select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\reset and click on File – Unload … We close the command prompt, we remove the Windows DVD from the DVD player and after storing it in its case, restart your computer.
Our windows 7 will start in a mode other than the usual: There will be shown the command prompt. In it, type: net user username NEW PASSWORD and confirm by pressing Enter. Last step, type: Exit and restart your PC.
And so here the guide comes to an end if you followed to the letter the guidance, then you probably now you come into your account, but if maybe you are unable to login, then still should consult a specialist in the sector, which could solve the problem in a handful of minutes, because there could have been some careless mistake during the performance and as mentioned in the second step a mistake could even lead to a fatal result, which could bring the computer to be formatted with the consequent loss of all data.
Then I highly recommend if you have noticed some mistakes or you cannot get to do not think twice and let us get our hands from someone who knows.