{"id":2081,"date":"2013-04-17T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:28:33","slug":"windows-7-password-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-7-password-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Password Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot your Windows 7 password or someone changes it without your knowledge? In such situations, you will be locked out of Windows 7. This tutorial covers the process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/knowledge\/recover-windows-7-password.html\">recovering Windows 7 password<\/a> even after you forget the administrator password. Like previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 stores the encrypted user account passwords in a file called SAM. This file is commonly found in \\windows\\system32\\config, which is in a binary format and not easily accessible. We will be using a utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Reset Windows Password<\/a> to perform the recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A blank CD\/DVD or a USB flash drive.<\/li>\n<li>Another PC where you can burn the software provided here to CD\/DVD or the USB flash drive..<\/li>\n<li>A basic know how about how to change the Boot Priority in BIOS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Password Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This method can enable you to reset\/remove forgotten Windows 7 password in minutes, but it cannot tell you what the password for an account actually is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Reset Windows Password<\/a> utility woks by overwriting the password hash in your SAM file so you can then log back to your account with a blank\/empty password. Here are the Windows 7 password recovery steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst, download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Reset Windows Password<\/a> utility on another PC in order to make a bootable Windows 7 password recovery CD\/USB drive.<br \/>\nAfter the download is complete, extract the ISO image file from the zip and burn the ISO to a CD or DVD using your favorite CD Burning utility such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/iso2disc.html\" target=\"_blank\">ISO2Disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nNow move to the Windows 7 PC you want to reset the password, either insert the CD\/DVD or the USB flash drive what you opted for and select it as the first boot device in computer BIOS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce you have booted into it you will see that the computer is loading the Windows PE operating system inside the CD\/USB drive. After one or two minutes, the Reset Windows Password program will open up and automatically detect the SAM registry files for all your Windows installations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong><br \/>\nChoose the SAM registry file for your Windows 7 installation, it will show you all the user accounts that are associated with your Windows system. Select the user account you forgot password of, and then click on &#8220;Reset Password&#8221; button. It will remove\/reset your forgotten Windows 7 password instantly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter you are completed with all the above steps successfully, remove the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/knowledge\/recover-windows-7-password.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 password recovery<\/a> CD\/USB drive and restart the computer. you can then happily log in to your Windows 7 system again.<\/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>Forgot your Windows 7 password or someone changes it without your knowledge? In such situations, you will be locked out of Windows 7. This tutorial covers the process of recovering Windows 7 password even after you forget the administrator password. 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