How to Change Windows 7 Password If Forgotten

When was the last time you changed password on Windows 7 PC? Do you struggle to access to your account since you changed the password so frequently and forgot the current one? Even so, you can easily change forgotten password in Windows 7 without login, to regain access to desktop.

Part 1: Changing Password for Windows 7 When It's Forgot

Method 1: Change with Other Admin Account

The most convenient way for changing lost password on Windows 7 without knowing old password is to log in as an administrator or an account with admin rights. This is just worked for local user account.

• Power on the computer and immediately press F8 repeatedly until boot menu displays.
• Choose Safe Mode with arrow up-n-down arrow keys and press Enter.
• On the home screen, click Administrator with blank password.
• When login, go to Start menu > Control Panel > User Accounts. You now can change password of any user in Windows 7 easily.

Method 2: Change Forgotten Windows 7 Password without Login

However, you may be stuck in this situation: you can't remember password for Windows 7, have no password reset disk made before, and need to gain access to the system. Luckily, there's an easy solution. Spower Windows Password Reset can change lost Windows 7 password on the lock screen and get you back in to PC & laptop promptly and easily.

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The elegant utility can created a bootable USB or CD/DVD with which you can magically change or reset any local Windows accounts when forgot and do the actions like adding new admin accounts. It's nearly fool-proof operation, and after a few minutes of running the program, it will find all account and display on the screen that you can reset the password. This is the last effort that can save you from having to go as far as reinstalling the operating system.

Before you do anything else, you'll need to download the software in another computer that you have access to, then follow the on-screen prompts to install it - it's clean and won't bundled with no malware. Now move on and see how quickly it changes forgotten login password on Windows 7 computer.

• Open up the application, put a removable drive (USB or CD/DVD) into the computer
• Click USB device or CD/DVD button to burn a bootable password reset disk.



• Take the drive out and re-insert it to the password-forgotten Windows 7 computer.
• Start locked computer, and boot it from the USB drive or CD/DVD disk.

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• When the software screen that appears, select a user account that you forgot the password and need to change it, then click Reset button to leave the password blank.
• Hit Reboot button and the computer should now be unlocked.

Method 3: Change Lost Windows 7 Password with Password Reset Disk

Another quicker way to change password on a Windows 7 computer is to apply password reset disk. Please note that it can be only useful if it's created before the account is locked with a forgotten password. Plus, it merely works for local user and admin accounts. If your computer is on a domain, a network administrator must reset your domain logon password.

• On the locked screen of Windows 7, click "Reset your password" link, which appears after you typed a wrong password in the password box.
• The Windows Reset Wizard panel should open.
• Insert the pre-created password reset disk to the problematic computer.
• Now set a new password to replace the forgotten one and you're good to go.

The lost Windows 7 login password has been changed without knowing the original one and you get access to the computer.

Method 4: Change a Windows 7 Password from Command Prompt

For the purpose of changing a login password that's forgotten on Windows 7, you will need a Windows 7 System Repair Disk. You can now create one to CD/DVD or USB on a Windows 7 machine (How-to guide).

• Switch on locked Windows 7 PC & laptop using the system repair disk, and press any key when prompted. You'll need to set the system repair disk as the first boot order instead as the machine may boot from its hard drive.
• After the system boots from system repair disk, System Recovery Options opens, where you can notice Windows 7 operating system and the location of it. Click Next button.
• In the next screen, choose Command Prompt option to open up command prompt.
• Type the line of code and press Enter: copy d:windowssystem32sethc.exe d:\. Change all d: in the command code to the actual location of your Windows 7 computer.
• Then type this command to overwrite the old forgotten password followed by Enter: copy d:windowssystem32cmd.exe d:windowssystem32sethc.exe
• Press Yes to when prompted to confirm the password change on Windows 7.
• Close command prompt and reboot PC. On the logon screen, press Shift key five times and you'll see a command prompt panel popping up.
• Change existing password by executing this command: net user Username Newpassword. Replace Username and Newpassword with actual name and new password for the account.
• You would log in to Windows desktop successfully. Now put the original file back in place. To do this, use the system repair disk to reboot computer again, and type the following command line inside command prompt: copy d:sethc.exe d:windowssystem32sethc.exe.
• Type Yes for overwrite and exit command prompt. You've done with it.

Part 2: Change Windows 7 Computer Password when Login

Changing a Windows 7 password on PC or laptop is a painless task, provided you're able to login to the system to access everything. Just follow the simple step-by-step instructions below.

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, and then click "Change a password" link.
• Enter the old password, a new password in the pop-up box.
• Press Enter and you're done.

If you log in as an administrator, you can change password for all users on Windows 7.