{"id":592,"date":"2016-12-08T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.sealionshipping.co.uk\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-12-08T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T13:49:51","slug":"how-to-reset-a-windows-7-password-if-its-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/how-to-reset-a-windows-7-password-if-its-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Reset A Windows 7 Password If It\u2019s Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Find a Windows 7 disk, any old disk, it doesn\u2019t even have to be the same version, and put it in the drive.<\/li>\n
  2. Boot from the CD.<\/li>\n
  3. Click \u2018Next\u2019 on the screens with your language and keyboard choices.<\/li>\n
  4. Don\u2019t install the software, click the link called \u2018Repair Your Computer\u2019.<\/li>\n
  5. Wait whilst your Windows 7 installation is located on your computer.<\/li>\n
  6. Once the installation is found make a note of the drive letter found in the \u2018Location\u2019 column. Most Windows 7 installations will show D: though it may be different.<\/li>\n
  7. Select \u2018Windows 7\u2019 from the \u2018Operating System\u2019 list and then click \u2018Next\u2019.<\/li>\n
  8. From the \u2018System Recovery Options\u2019 choose \u2018Command Prompt\u2019.<\/li>\n
  9. In the Command Box type in \u201ccopy d:\\windows\\system32\\utilman.exe d:\\\u201d without the quotes and replacing d: with the OS driver letter you found earlier.<\/li>\n
  10. Then type \u201ccopy d:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe d:\\windows\\system32\\utilman.exe\u201d again without the quotes and replacing d: with the OS driver letter you found earlier.<\/li>\n
  11. Close the Command Box.<\/li>\n
  12. Then remove the disk and reboot the PC.<\/li>\n
  13. Once the login screen appears locate the little icon ob the bottom-left of the screen that looks like a pie with a square around it and then \u2018Click It!\u2019<\/li>\n
  14. With the comman prompt open type \u201c net user myusername mypassword\u201d without the quotes and replacing \u2018MyUserName\u2019 with your username and \u2018MyPassword\u2019 with the new password.<\/li>\n
  15. Then close the command prompt window<\/li>\n
  16. Login with your new password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Find a Windows 7 disk, any old disk, it doesn\u2019t even have to be the same version, and put it in the drive. Boot from the CD. Click \u2018Next\u2019 on the screens with your language and keyboard choices. Don\u2019t install the software, click the link called \u2018Repair Your Computer\u2019. Wait whilst your Windows 7 installation is located on your computer. Once the installation is found make a note of the drive letter found in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}