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forget my windows password, help me
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It's good practice to have more than one account with administrator capabilities. If one account gets corrupted or you forget the password use the other to rectify it. Just a free tip for the future.
For now see if http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ also works for Windows 7. If not, try the other ones from http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm (the above is #3).
Kees
Once you recover your password via the links Keees provided I recommend you create a password reset disk and have a backup administrator account in the case you forget your password again or your account is corrupted: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-to-do-if-you-forget-your-Windows-password.
Cheers,
Tara
If you are on a domain, your system administrator should be able to reset your password. When this is recovered, make sure you create a password recovery disk (and a secondary administrator account) so you can avoid this in the future: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Create-a-password-reset-disk.
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