![]() ![]() Once the Advanced Boot Options screen appears, highlight “Repair your computer” and press Enter.Īfter a while, the System Recovery Options window will show up which prompts you to select the keyboard input method that you prefer, and subsequently asks you to log on as a local administrator account before running the Startup Repair or System Restore tool. Just take it easy! Simply boot your computer from PCUnlocker Live CD and it enables you to remove forgotten Startup Repair password quickly.īut you’ll be stuck at the logon screen if you couldn’t remember the administrator password. ![]() The PCUnlocker utility exists as a bootable ISO image, which needs to be burned to a blank CD or placed on a bootable USB drive. It could be used to reset lost administrator password on Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP. ![]() Once you’ve created a PCUnlocker Live CD, put it in the CD drive of the Windows 7 computer that you’re trying to reset the password for. #ADVANCED COMPUTER SYSTEM REPAIR PASSWORD# Power on the computer and make the CD-ROM to boot first in the BIOS. #ADVANCED COMPUTER SYSTEM REPAIR PASSWORD#.Windows SAM file The is a file located in C: Windows System32 config (can also be found under the Windows registry HKEYLOCALMACHINE SAM) directory of the machine and stores the user account information. Anyhow, instead of using Ophcrack to attempt to crack the password, I went ahead and tried other approaches because I had physical access to the machine, and as stated earlier, the owner did not care whether the password was deleted/reset. As you will see below, the easiest method to delete/reset a password is by booting into another OS (such as Linux) from the same computer, via USB, and access the Windows SAM file. –If you must recover the password, for whatever reason, Ophcrack is a very well-known (and old) tool to crack/recover passwords and they even offer a live CD to boot. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. ![]()
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