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How to Remove Windows 7 Password with Safe Mode/Reset Disk/Removal Software

Learn how to remove forgotten Windows 7 password with free options and Windows 7 password removal tools which can also be used to change or disable a user account in Windows 7 Professional/home premium 64 bit, etc...

In such busy social life, people are likely to forget many things. To remember sorts of passwords in different usage is indeed a big challenge including mailbox password, credit card password, Windows password, etc. Computer users frequently forget Windows password caused by many reasons: they may mix up Windows password with other passwords, or they haven't used their computer for a long time, or maybe someone has changed their passwords. Whatever happens, you need to recover Windows password. This article will teach you how to remove Windows 7 password.

1. Use Command Prompt

Computer users may know the administrator account in Windows 7 is disabled by default. If you haven't created a password for this default admin account before, you can't remove Windows 7 password in this way. You can refer to the following guides. Press F8 when your Windows 7 PC is booting and you will come to the Advanced Boot Options. Then choose Safe Mode with Command Prompt and enter into safe mode with the default admin account. Type "net user" and press Enter to reset Windows password. The command prompt will show you all accounts on the Windows 7 PC. Type "net user ABC 123" (ABC is the locked account's name and 123 is the new password).

2. Remove Password from Windows 7 with Reset Disk

Windows 7 provides another method to recover forgotten password by using a Windows password reset disk. If you have created a Windows 7 password reset disk before, you can use that disk to remove Windows 7 password as follows.

When you type a wrong password at the login screen, you will see "The username or password is incorrect" error; click OK to see reset password options; insert your password reset disk and then click on the reset password option to open password reset wizard and click next button to continue; select the password reset disk (that you used while creating the reset disk) and click next to proceed to the next step; enter a new password and them type the password again to confirm; click the next button and then click the finish button to close the wizard; now enter the new password in password box in the login screen to login to the user account.

This method is available only if you have created a password reset disk before your computer is locked.

3. Windows 7 Password Removal Tool

To remove password Windows 7 as well as any Windows Sever without reformatting or reinstalling your system, Windows Password Reset is the fastest and easiest.

Anytime and anywhere you forgot Windows 7 password, just follow several simple steps, your Windows password can be recovered successfully. By using this method, all you need to do is to burn the downloaded program to a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive on an accessible computer, and then insert it into your locked computer to remove password Windows 7.

Many of these password programs do not actually reset password Windows Server 2008 but remove it, including the above three. Anyway, they accomplish the same goal at last!

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