How to Know Windows 7 PC Password?

Posted by jeromejones on October 24th, 2012

Question: My Friend departed and he placed the password for the PC. Now he forgot the password. So can you tell me any software or method to get in the PC? I don’t want to reinstall windows 7 cause his Gmail account and Fb passwords are saved in the browser. So without doing any changes to C: I want to know the password of that PC.

Answer 1. There is a program called ophcrack that allows you to crack forgotten Windows 7 password based on the rain tables done by the inventor of the method. Download the version for your operating system and burn it to disc as a bootable disc, then put the disc in and restart the pc, if it says press any key to boot from DVD press a key and follow any instructions for password recovery, it may take a while to scan the hard drive but it will show any passwords that are on the pc.

Answer 2. Windows Password Unlocker is highly suggested if you don’t mind removing the forgotten Windows 7 password. With this Windows password reset tool, you can easily burn a bootable Windows password reset disk with CD/DVD/USB drive in seconds, and then start the PC from the disc and reset Windows 7 password. The 5-minute Windows password reset process is safe and easy for everyone.

Step 1: Download Window Password Unlocker Professional. After download, you can install it in any computer with any OS.

Step 2: Burn a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive with the program.

Step 3: BIOS settings

Step 4: Remove lost Vista login password with the burned CD/DVD or USB drive

Answer 3. You don’t have to recover or reset the forgotten Windows 7 password. By taking the Enterprise edition of Rekeysoft Widnows Password Recovery, you can create a new admin account to bypass this forgotten password. Download and install this program in any PC that you can run as administrator, burn a bootable Windows password reset disk in seconds. Boot the target PC from the dsik and create a new admin account on this PC. Once the new admin account password is created, reboot your PC and then you can get in your PC through the new admin account when the logon window appears.

Answer 4. Please have a try of Cain & Abel . It is a free, fast and effective Windows password recovery tool. Cain & Abel requires access to Windows under an administrator account.  It’s able to recover the 10-character password to the Windows XP “Administrator” account in ten seconds. Compared to other similar tools, Cain & Abel is a bit more complicated. Check it out if you think it might be useful to you.

One more tip: Actually, the best Windows 7 password reset solution is to use a previously-created password reset disk. After resetting your forgotten Windows password, open the User Accounts windows and then click the Create a password reset disk link. A wizard will open to guide you how to create Windows 7 password reset disk.