How To Reset A Forgotten Windows Password
If you've ever forgotten your password or been asked to assist somebody else in resetting their password, there's a lot of different ways to accomplish it. Here's how to do it by hacking the Sticky Keys feature.
If you've ever forgotten your password or been asked to assist somebody else in resetting their password, there's a lot of different ways to accomplish it. Here's how to do it by hacking the Sticky Keys feature.
Over at the 4sysops blog,
they've written up the process of resetting your Windows password by booting
off a repair disk, opening a command prompt, and copying cmd.exe over top of
sethc.exe. Once you've done that, you can boot back up into Windows until you
get to the login prompt, press the Shift key 5 times, and you'll see a command
prompt where you can use the net user command to reset the password.
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