Reset Windows (NT, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7)
password / Reset Windows Forgotten Password / Reset Windows
Administrator password
Recently I was in the
Pomorie's Monastery - St.
George .
One layman left his notebook (maybe as a donation) to the monks.
However the notebook was protected by both: fingerprint check, as
well as administrator password and therefore the notebook was
completely unusable and was thrown away with many other unused
belongings.
When the abbot of the monastery found out I'm adept with computers,
he asked if I can fix up the notebook and somehow remove the
password, or reinstall the machine to make it usable.
So here I decided to blog what I undertook to reset the windows
password with the hope somebody else could benefit from that as
well.
1. Go to
Offline NT
Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD website
2. Download
the bootable CD
image zip archive of Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
and burn the iso to a CD using K3b (on Linux), Nero or CDBurnerXP
on (Windows).
3. Follow the
step by step
walkthrough manual (here) to either change Some Windows user
password or completely reset administrator or any other user
password.
Following the walkthrough literally prooved to be quite succesful
for me and I was able to properly reset the administrator
password!
So Hooray it works again! The monks can now benefit of the cute
Toshiba satellite machine.