Right click the computer icon on your desktop, select Manage, find Local Users and Groups, unfold Users folder, right click Administrator, click Set password… in the menu comes up. Click Proceed in the dialog, in the pop-up, enter a New Password and confirm it. Your administrator’s password is successfully reset.

Guest account may help to log onto Windows, but it has no privilege for you to do the above to reset the administrator’s password.

If you forgot all user passwords and failed to log onto Windows, there is no other way but to format the OS and reinstall Windows, or resort to sort of software tools to remove the password and log onto Windows. These programs cost some bucks, but are worthy and better than to reinstall the OS causing consequences. The most popular programs are Windows Password Reset 6.0 etc. Generally, these programs are easy to use though turn out to be a scary command prompt to newbie. But do relax and you can fully manipulate. Let’s take Windows Password Reset 6.0 for example. You prepare a blank CD, burn the program onto the CD, boot the locked computer from the CD, come to initiate the program, locate the user name, and proceed to remove its password – all are at ease.

Encrypting your entire drive with True Crypt!

The solution might be to put your data inon a virtual PGP disk on the computer, that way even if someone gets access to your OS they wont be able to get in to your data just as easy.

Kim:)

Because of professional affairs, I’ve had contact with this software and I must say it’s very good. Although it will not break (or take plenty of time) you password if it’s strong enough &@31rd%A should keep you safe for example (just try to remember it).

The othe way is to use encryption software – either commercial (especially to encrypt the whole hard drive) or free (to encrypt certain folders, where you can safely keep highly sensitive data). The biggest drawback of commercial software is that it’s mainly written for corporate users not for single license.

Anyhow, I recommend using so called USB keys (not storage devices) (cost around 10bucks) which are in fact microchips that allow you to encrypt folders and files. To access them, you need to insert USB key.

Sorry for being so boring, I could talk about it all day & night :P

Have to be very carefull though, because it’s linux accessing NTFS and if something goes wrong, the data could be toast.

Of course you use an encrypted flie system and you loose you password, I don’t think there is much that will help you.