How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows Password
Forgetting your password is never any fun, but luckily there's a really
easy way to reset the password. All you need is a copy of the Windows
installation disk and one simple command line trick.
Boot off the Windows disk and select the “Repair your computer”
option from the lower left-hand corner.
Follow through until you get to the option to open the Command
Prompt, which you'll want to select.
First you'll want to type in the following command to backup the
original sticky keys file:
Then you'll copy the command prompt executable (cmd.exe) over top
of the sticky keys executable:
Copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe
Now you can reboot the PC.
Resetting the Password
Once you get to the login screen, hit the Shift key 5 times, and
you'll see an administrator mode command prompt.
Now to reset the password—just type the following command,
replacing the username and password with the combination you want:
Net user Admin MyNewPassword
That's all there is to it. Now you can login.
Of course, you'll probably want to put the original sethc.exe file
back, which you can do by rebooting into the installation CD, opening the
command prompt, and copying the c:\sethc.exe file back to c:\windows
\system32\sethc.exe.
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