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Windows 7 Create Password Reset Disk
« on: March 02, 2009, 06:22:38 PM »
Creating a Windows 7 password reset disk can really come in handy if you forget your account password. With it, you can easily reset your password and get right in to Windows 7.

While there are ways to recover lost passwords without a password reset disk, they are often complicated and time consuming.

Be proactive by creating a password reset disk today. With a password reset disk, forgetting your password is no longer a crisis. You can create a password reset disk in Windows 7. It will prompt you for a floppy disk or a USB flash drive.

Follow the easy steps below to create a password reset disk for your Windows 7 account:

Time Required: Creating a password reset disk for your Windows 7 logon usually takes less than five minutes.

Here's How:

Click on Start and then Control Panel.

Click on the User Accounts.

Note: If you're viewing the Classic View of Control Panel, you won't see this link. Simply double-click on the User Accounts icon and proceed to Step 4.

Click on the User Accounts link.

In the task pane on the left, click the Create a password reset disk link.

When the Forgotten Password Wizard window appears, click Next

Note: You will need some kind of portable media before being able to create a password reset disk. This means that you will need a flash drive or a floppy disk drive and blank floppy disk.


In the I want to create a password key disk in the following drive: drop down box, choose the portable media drive to
create a password reset disk on.

Click Next to continue.

With the disk or other media still in the drive, enter your current account password in the text box and click Next.

Windows 7 will now create the password reset disk on your chosen media.

When the progress indicator shows 100% complete, click Next and then click Finish in the next window.

You can now remove the flash drive or floppy disk from your computer.

Label the disk "Password Reset" and store it in a safe place.

this will work in windows vista and xp as well

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