{"id":1601,"date":"2012-11-25T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2012-11-25T05:23:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:23:03","slug":"how-to-unlock-a-locked-out-user-account-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-unlock-a-locked-out-user-account-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unlock a Locked Out User Account in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally the account lockout duration setting determines the number of minutes a locked out account remains locked out before automatically becoming unlocked. If the account lockout duration is set to 0 minutes, then a locked out user account will be locked out until you manually unlock that locked out user account.<\/p>\n<p>What to do if the locked out user account is the only one administrator account on your computer? You&#8217;ll be locked out of your machine permanently if you can&#8217;t find some password-unlocking tricks to solve this particular problem. In this post we&#8217;ll show you how to easily unlock a locked out user account in Windows 7, in case you are locked out due to invalid logon attempts or just simply forgot the password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Unlock a Locked Out User Account in Windows 7?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the zip archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Reset Windows Password<\/a> utility. Unzip it and burn the ISO image to a blank CD or USB stick.<\/li>\n<li>Insert the CD or USB stick into your locked computer and let your computer boot from it.<\/li>\n<li>After a while the bootdisk will launch the Reset Windows Password utility, which shows all user accounts existing in your computer.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the user account which is locked out, then click <strong>Reset Password<\/strong> button. The program will reset the password as well as unlock the user account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Remove the CD or USB stick. Restart the computer and you can then log in to your Windows 7 user account with a blank password.\u00a0This trick could also be used to unlock domain user account in Windows Server 2010, 2008,2003 and 2000.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally the account lockout duration setting determines the number of minutes a locked out account remains locked out before automatically becoming unlocked. If the account lockout duration is set to 0 minutes, then a locked out user account will be locked out until you manually unlock that locked out user account. What to do if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[705,704,706],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-7","tag-unlock-a-locked-out-user-account","tag-unlock-user-account-in-windows-7","tag-unlock-windows-7-user-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}