{"id":1507,"date":"2012-11-01T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2015-05-18T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T01:24:07","slug":"forgot-windows-8-administrator-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/forgot-windows-8-administrator-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgot Windows 8 Administrator Password and Can&#8217;t Login"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Do any of you all know how to reset Windows 8 administrator password once lost or forgotten. Since windows 8 is a completely new concept to me that&#8217;s why I want to know how can I reset or restore the password?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What to do if you forgot Windows 8 administrator password? Is there any other option to unlock your computer than re-installing Windows 8? In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to reset Windows 8 administrator password in case you forgot the password or the administrator account is locked out or disabled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Reset Forgotten Windows 8 Administrator Password?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/download\/reset_windows_password_trial.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to download the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\">Reset Windows Password<\/a>\u00a0software. Once the download is complete, unzip the download file and you\u2019ll find the CD ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso.<\/li>\n<li>Burn the ISO image to an empty CD using any CD\/DVD recording software such as BurnCDCC or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/iso2disc.html\" target=\"_blank\">ISO2Disc<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Place the Live CD you\u2019ve created in the CD drive of your Windows 8 computer. Head into the BIOS and set the computer to boot from CD.<\/li>\n<li>The boot procedure may take one or two minutes, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\">Reset Windows Password<\/a>\u00a0program will start.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hack windows 7 password\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/images\/windows_pwd_small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" \/><\/li>\n<li>From the main window of Reset Windows Password program, you could see the Windows SAM registry file and user accounts inside the SAM file.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the administrator account, and then click on the\u00a0<strong>Reset Password<\/strong>\u00a0button. It will immediately reset the forgotten administrator password and unlock the user account if it is locked out or disabled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After resetting Windows 8 administrator password, remove the CD and reboot the computer. 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