{"id":2645,"date":"2013-06-29T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2013-06-29T23:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:16:37","slug":"windows-8-tablet-password-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-8-tablet-password-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Tablet Password Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost your Windows 8 tablet password? Unable to login after changing the Microsoft account password? In this article we&#8217;ll show you a quick way to recover access to your Windows 8 tablet easily after you&#8217;ve lost or forgotten the password to your administrator account or Microsoft account. This method will work with all brands of Windows 8 tablet PCs, including the tablets with UEFI Secure Boot turned on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Recover Windows 8 Tablet Password?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To get started, you need to make a bootable password recovery USB drive. Download the zipped ISO image of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">PCUnlocker<\/a> on an alternate PC you have access to. Unzipping the download file and you&#8217;ll find a bootable ISO image file: pcunlocker.iso, which needs to be burned on a CD or USB drive. Obviously, USB drive is a better option for tablet PCs without CD drive.<\/p>\n<p>Download and install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/iso2disc.html\" target=\"_blank\">ISO2Disc<\/a> on your computer, and then start ISO2Disc program. Click on <strong>Browse<\/strong> button to select the ISO image file of PCUnlocker, then choose your USB drive and select <strong>GPT<\/strong> from the partition style drop-down box. Click on <strong>Burn<\/strong>. The program will create a bootable password recovery USB drive which can boot in either UEFI mode or legacy BIOS mode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/images\/iso2disc_gpt.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After creating a bootable USB drive, you can use it to recover your Windows 8 tablet password. Plug the USB drive into your Windows 8 tablet and get the machine to boot from USB drive.<\/p>\n<p>The computer will load the WinPE operating system inside the USB drive. After a while, you&#8217;ll see the PCUnlocker program open up, which shows you a list of local user accounts existing on your Windows 8 tablet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/images\/pcunlocker.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a user account and then click on <strong>Reset Password<\/strong> button. It will remove\/reset your lost Windows 8 tablet password and also unlock\/enable your user account in no time. If you&#8217;re using a Microsoft account on your Windows 8 tablet, you need to choose the local user account which is linked to your Microsoft account, the program will reset the cached password on your machine.<\/p>\n<p>After that, unplug the USB drive and restart your Windows 8 tablet, you can then log back into Windows 8 without a password! 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