{"id":270,"date":"2012-05-06T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:50:57","slug":"forgot-windows-administrator-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/forgot-windows-administrator-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I Access Windows 7\/Vista\/XP\/2008\/2003 if I Forgot Administrator Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hello, how to reset the administrator password that has been forgot? I cannot log in Windows and my administrator account is disabled. How can I change the my Windows 7 password? I will be thankful that if you give me the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As it&#8217;s well known to us, the administrator is the built-in administrative account which has unrestricted access to everything on the computer. So if you have forgotten the administrator password, it&#8217;s a daunting task for you to reset the administrator password, especially when it&#8217;s the only user with administrative rights.\u00a0 How can you get out of this situation without formatting and re-installing the operating system?<\/p>\n<p>One method of gaining access to the system is to remove the administrator password using a password reset disk. What&#8217;s the most important is that we must create the Windows password reset disk before we forgot administrator password. However I don&#8217;t think this approach will help you, otherwise you wouldn&#8217;t be sitting here reading article, would you?<\/p>\n<p>Another method is to recover administrator password using Ophcrack LiveCD.<strong> Ophcrack<\/strong> is an open source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables. The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows. It is claimed that these tables can crack 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords of up to<strong> 14 characters<\/strong> in usually a few minutes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not &#8216;techie&#8217; or are short on time, we always recommends the third method below.<\/p>\n<p>A third method is to use <a title=\"password recovery bundle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/password-recovery-bundle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Password Recovery Bundle<\/a>, one of the most popular <a title=\"windows password recovery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windows password recovery<\/a> software, which will enable you to reset lost Windows password and logon with a blank password. Download and install the software on an accessible computer, it enables you to create a password reset bootdisk. Boot your locked Windows 7\/Vista\/XP\/2008\/2003 system from the bootdisk and it enables you to reset \/ unlock your lost administrator password easily and instantly. Additionally Password Recovery Bundle can also be used to reset domain administrator password on Windows Server 2008\/2003\/2000.<\/p>\n<p>There are several options for you to regain access to Windows 7\/Vista\/XP\/2008\/2003 if you forgot administrator password.\u00a0 With these methods you should be able to <a title=\"reset windows administrator password\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/knowledge\/reset-windows-administrator-password.html\" target=\"_blank\">reset Windows administrator password<\/a> and log on your computer successfully.<\/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>Hello, how to reset the administrator password that has been forgot? I cannot log in Windows and my administrator account is disabled. How can I change the my Windows 7 password? I will be thankful that if you give me the idea. 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