{"id":1889,"date":"2013-02-18T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T08:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T10:59:20","slug":"forgot-picture-password-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/forgot-picture-password-in-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgot Picture Password in Windows 8? How to Unlock Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Password protecting access to Windows user accounts is now the norm. Windows 8 enables you to protect your account with a picture password. Using a picture password is much more secure than regular alphanumeric password, but it may cause big trouble when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/knowledge\/forgot-windows-8-picture-password.html\">forgot Windows 8 picture password<\/a>. How to unlock your computer when you forgot picture password in Windows 8?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily picture password is merely a helpful alternative login method rather than something that adds security. Setting up a picture password does not replace your regular alphanumeric password, and on the lock screen itself there is an option to switch back to the standard login option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1892\" title=\"switch-to-password\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/switch-to-password.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So if you forgot picture password, you can choose to unlock your computer using traditional text password or Microsoft Live account. After logging into Windows 8 you can reset the forgotten picture password easily.<\/p>\n<p>Still can&#8217;t login using a regular password or Microsoft account? Don&#8217;t worry! With <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\">Reset Windows Password<\/a> utility you can easily reset lost or forgotten passwords for Windows 8 local administrator account and Microsoft account. It is 100% safe and will not damage any of the files on your computer. Best of all, Reset Windows Password utility has a very high success rate of 99.8% in resetting your Windows password and supports all versions of Windows. You can unlock any forgotten password on your Windows XP, Vista, NT or Windows 7 desktop computer or Windows 8 laptop.<\/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>Password protecting access to Windows user accounts is now the norm. Windows 8 enables you to protect your account with a picture password. Using a picture password is much more secure than regular alphanumeric password, but it may cause big trouble when you forgot Windows 8 picture password. How to unlock your computer when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[829,742,830,744],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-forgot-picture-password-in-windows-8","tag-forgot-windows-8-picture-password","tag-reset-picture-password","tag-windows-8-picture-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}