The easiest way to reset a forgotten Windows password is to use a previously created password-reset disk. You can create such a disk (on USB removable media or a floppy) within the Windows User ...

Sometimes you can easily forget your local password, especially, when you log in to your Windows PC automatically. If you have to type in your password, and you have forgotten it, don't worry. There ...

For a general Windows user, resetting a lost or forgotten administrative password can be a bit troublesome if you don’t have the proper tools and techniques to reset it, depending on the underlying OS ...

Windows only: Login Recovery is a password retrieval application that requires physical access to the computer. You burn Login Recovery to a CD as a bootable disc image, and after restarting the ...

The Windows 10 login password went amiss for Albert Pye and about a dozen others who wrote to me saying they couldn’t log into their PCs. In every instance they had not touched their computer nor ...

Q: I just found an old PC of mine that may store some important information that I would like to recover. It boots up to Windows XP and gives me a password hint, but I simply cannot recall the ...

Ensure you'll never accidentally get locked out of your PC: create a password recovery disk for Windows XP. XP is the most secure of all Windows versions. However, if you have one Administrative ...

Old Windows Server 2000 box on a workgroup needed to have it's IP address change. No one seems to know the admin password but we can get in with a user level account, just can't change anything. I ...

One of the advantages of a Windows Live ID is that you can use it to log on to numerous Microsoft applications and services, from Hotmail to SkyDrive to Office Live 365. If you have forgotten your ...