Hirens boot Remove Windows Password Tutorial

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Introduction
Sometimes a person forgets the password the Windows session. Fortunately, your account documents are
not encrypted and therefore can simply remove the password of the Windows session without problem.
This technique is generally used by the computer to be able to repair a client computer without losing his
time trying to call the client to know his password.
Solution
To delete it, you will need Live CD "Hiren Boot CD" (hence the title of the tutorial matter).
Since it is a Bootable CD, you'll need to burn the iso file in the "zip" file that you downloaded. To burn
this ISO image, follow our tutorial "Burn CD / DVD".
Once burned to a CD image, you need to configure your BIOS to boot from the CD, follow our tutorial for
this "Change the BIOS boot order".
Once the computer has started on the CD, this menu will be displayed. In this case, select "Offline
NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 Password Change" and press "ENTER" key (or Enter in French).
Note : As stated, this small DOS program is compatible with Windows NT, 2000, XP, ...
Then, simply press ENTER.

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Select the partition where Windows.
Two scenarios are possible:
- On Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista and previous (older): The default partition is partition 1
- Windows 7: The partition containing Windows, is the second. Just because the first is the recovery
partition 100MB called "WinRE".
Note: If the partition list is not displayed, try to set the controller to IDE hard drive time to make the
change. To do this, follow our tutorial "Edit Harddisk controller mode".
Specify (if necessary) the folder where the file containing the registry files. As a general rule, this path is
shown by default (WINDOWS/system32/config).

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Then select "1 - Password reset [sam system security]".
Then select "1 - Edit user data and passwords".
You will then enter the user name. Because the QWERTY keyboard is configured in this program, here is
the layout of the buttons on it :

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Now type the name of the user for whom you want to delete the password.
Select first the option "4 - Unlock and enable user account".
Then enter the same username.
And now select "1 - Clear (blank) user password".

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Once you have finished, type the character! to exit.
Note: On a QWERTY keyboard, press the "Shift" key + key 1 (on the left side of the keyboard) as shown in
the picture.
Then press a (q on qwerty keyboard).
Then type the letter "y" to save the changes.
Press ENTER.

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And finally, press the CTRL + ALT + DEL (or Delete) keys.
Well, you now have access to your Windows session without needing the password.