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Win 8 password recovery/reset

by Willy Apr 4, 2014 4:47AM PDT

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Wish I saw this earlier Willy!
by Lee.Koo Apr 4, 2014 9:49AM PDT

The upcoming Community newsletter has a member asking the same question. Oh well.

Have you tried this yourself, does it work? If it works and you can vouch for it, I'll make it a sticky as I know people forget their passwords all the time.

Thanks for posting this.

Cheers,

-Lee

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It does
by Willy Apr 4, 2014 1:05PM PDT

I'll say it works. You do need the items they call for, created proper recovery disc, refer to link.

On Win 8, however, I have found not that many people willing to go Win 8 as an upgrade. Rather they got Win 8 with the new PC. I still rely on the ole NTpassword resetter and have a flash drive with it. The other half of this is trying to save data which can be a problem if the users tried this or that before I got involved. Don't blame me if you really dug yourself in at least you have a booting PC again. I know Win 8, but its a learning curve for sure. I have to do this on my own as i have to support it but I "love" Win 7. For me, Win 8 isn't offering anything I can say, gee whiz, I need this. ------Willy Happy

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Thank you Willy...
by Lee.Koo Apr 9, 2014 5:54AM PDT

As you always say "tada" it's now a sticky!

Cheers and thanks again Willy!

-Lee

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Still working
by anhhaihp Aug 28, 2014 6:24PM PDT

I've checked with my Windows 8 laptop and it works fine! Thank you so much.

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Windows8 Recovery
by alvachristi Mar 19, 2015 3:46PM PDT

Very helpful.I go through this link and now I am able to recover the windows 8 software.

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