How to Recover a Forgotten Windows 7 Password

Ever since the introduction of Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft had a proper mechanism installed in each Windows version to store passwords and login information of all users. All login information is stored in a SAM file. A SAM file contains the user names and password hashes for every single account on the Windows powered local machine. Contents of SAM file are encoded to make them unreadable and user access to the file is also restricted. But this works fine only while Windows is running.

Now, what if you forgot your Windows password and you don’t prefer to re-install it because you have plenty of softwares installed on your computer plus you have a fear of losing important data. Apparently you can do nothing about it and accessing SAM file, but truly speaking you can come out of this now. Offline NT Password and Registry Editor come to rescue.

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor: - Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is an incredible tool to recover lost Windows passwords on just about any version, be it Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7. You can get a free copy of your Offline NT Password & Registry Editor from its homepage at pogostick. You need to download an ISO image zip file. After downloading the ISO image, burn it on the CD and boot your computer with that CD. After you boot, the software will indicate you a list of Windows installations and ask you which one you would like to reset. Enter the specific option number, and you will prompt for the location of the registry.

All you need to do is press Enter to confirm as the required option is selected by-default. Choose appropriate password recovery option to proceed further. This tool will let you reset your password.

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