Forgot your Windows 8 password and don’t have a reset disk? Windows 8 account is disabled or locked out? Just take it easy! You can reset your login password by booting your PC from PCUnlocker Live CD. It works for both local account and Microsoft account.
3. Forgot your Windows 8 password and don’t have a reset
disk? Windows 8 account is disabled or locked out? Just
take it easy! You can reset your login password by booting
your PC from PCUnlocker Live CD. It works for both local
account and Microsoft account.
Windows Password Recovery
4. Many Windows users are familiar with password reset disk that could
be used to reset a forgotten Windows password. But most of people
tend to ignore the importance of creating a password reset disk in
advance before losing their passwords. What to do if you forgot
Windows 8 password and don’t have a password reset disk?
Fortunately, there is a rescue CD called PCUnlocker which can help
you reset lost password of both local administrator and Microsoft
account in Windows 8. Basically PCUnlocker is a bootable ISO image
that you have to write it on a CD or USB flash drive, which contains a
WinPE operating system and a password recovery tool that allow you
to have access to the Windows SAM file.
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to reset forgotten Windows
8 password without a reset disk:
Windows Password Recovery
5. Step-By-Step Instructions:
First, you need to use another computer to download the zipped ISO
image of PCUnlocker. Extract the downloaded file locally and then
burn the resulting .iso file to a CD-ROM (or USB flash drive) using
ISO2Disc program.
Insert the PCUnlocker Live CD into your locked Windows 8
computer and boot from it. You may have to change the computer’s
boot order in the BIOS in order to boot from the CD.
If you boot from the CD successfully, the computer will load the
contents of the CD drive, and finally start the PCUnlocker program.
This program automatically detects your Windows installation and
displays all Windows local accounts which are stored in the SAM
registry hive.
Choose a local account and click on “Reset Password” button. The
program will reset your forgotten password instantly. If you’re using a
Microsoft account with your Windows 8 system, please choose the
local account which is linked to your Microsoft account and then
reset the password.
Restart your computer and remove the PCUnlocker Live CD. You
can then log back into Windows 8 successfully.
Windows Password Recovery
6. PCUnlocker is a professional Windows password recovery tools
for both technicians and computer beginners. Comparing to
password reset disk, it’s much more powerful and every
technicians should have it into their toolkit. Just with a
PCUnlocker Live CD, you can reset forgotten Windows
8/7/Vista/XP password on any computer.
Windows Password Recovery