Lost administrator vista password

In reply to PhildoOz's post on May 15, The laptop is running Windows Vista Home Premium. Phil I am sorry but we can not give you any assistance with what a 3rd party password reset program finds for you. In reply to Bill Smithers's post on May 16, Hi Bill - I am not after help with the 3rd party sw - but am after help on how to access an existing Administrator logon either via the command line i.

In reply to PhildoOz's post on May 16, You have to be signed in to do this and you can't sign in because you have forgot the password. Note If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as Administrator. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.

Type exit , and then press Enter. Log off the current user account. Step 6: Now you can restart the computer and then use the recovered password to log on the user account in Windows Vista. This is an efficient way for Windows Vista password recovery when you lost password and locked out of your computer.

Step 5: At the command prompt window, run the following commands. Press Enter key after each command. Step 6: Close the Command Prompt window. Please replace the user name and password with yours. Then the user account password will be changed to yours. You will now be able to login Windows Vista with the new password.

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Do you know how to create and use a password disk in Windows 10? You will find the answers in this post. If you can't use the above methods, you can try this one. In Windows Vista, there is a hidden account called Administrator and it is always available for use if required. There are many bootable password recovery CDs available that you can download off the Internet.

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