The Complete Guide to Restore or Crack Windows Login Password for FREE

In order to protect your music and documents from unauthorized access, you may have set a unique password to guard your Windows User Account.

As you know, it’s not suggested to set the same password to all your personal accounts, such as passwords of bank account, E-mail account, IM (MSN, AOL, etc) account and so on. On the other side, it is recommended to change the passwords regularly, as well as keep the length and complexity of them.

Unfortunately, you may not remember all the passwords, or often mixing up specific one to another… If the same thing happened in Windows Operating System, how can you deal with the case?

At first, if you can login to your Windows user account normally, it’s better to take precautions before it is too late. I mean creating a password reset disk.

Create a Password Reset Disk in Windows 7

In another way, you can contact system manager to use the built-in Administrator account for changing your account’s password.

There is no directly way to solve the issue if you lost Administrator password of Windows Operating System. Here I recommend 3 powerful freeware tools to help you achieve the goal, restore or crack Windows login passwords.

• PCLoginNow

PCLoginNow is a free, open-source tool to reset local accounts’ passwords on Windows system. It can also help you to upgrade a general account to administrator, as well as lock or unlock accounts. PCLoginNow supports Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista with syskey, but no clear description about supporting Windows 7.

PCLoginNow

Download the program from SourceForge, and burn the ISO image to CD or DVD disc (Rewritable media is recommended). Then you can boot PC from the disc and recover passwords of Windows User Accounts.

• Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is one of the fastest account password recovery tools for Windows platforms. It has tested in almost all versions of Windows, which means Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and perhaps Windows Server 2008. All variants including 32-bit and 64-bit version.

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

You have to download and burn the program to CD or DVD disc in order to use it. The only disadvantage with Offline NT is that program interface uses command prompt, which may not easy to use, and made some users puzzling…

• Ophcrack

Ophcrack is one of the best and top rated password recovery tools for Windows. It uses standard Windows interface for users to operate. It supports all mainstream versions of Windows including Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Ophcrack

Ophcrack runs on Windows, Linux/Unix and even Mac OS X, without requiring any installation. The only downside is you have to download a large ISO image to burn the disc.

Finally, it is better to write down your passwords, or at least the hints of them, to a safe place. Thus, you can deal the cases quicker and easier