How to reset a BIOS password: There are two ways to get through that. First and formost unplug your computer. One is carefully remove the CMOS battery on your motherboard with a non magnetized flathead jewlers screwdriver (looks like a large flat watch battery) leave it out for 3-5 min put it back in and power on your computer. Second option is look for a small jumper on the motherboardr is often labeled CLEAR, CLEAR CMOS, JCMOS1, CLR, CLRPWD, PASSWD, PASSWORD, PSWD or PWD and change the jumper. To change the jumper remove it from the two pins its currently on so that it covers the pin that is not covered. For example, if pins 1 and 2 are covered, you'd remove the jumper and put it on pins 2 and 3. Once this jumper has been changed, turn on the computer and the password should be cleared. Once cleared, turn the computer off and return the jumper or dip switch to its original position and power back on. How to Reset a Windows user Password: Download Hirems BootCD from http://www.hirensbootcd.org/ and burn the ISO to a cd. Boot your computer with Hiren's BootCD and follow the steps below for resetting your password: 1. Enter "Offline NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 Password Changer" With Up & Down keys select Offline 'NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 Password Changer' and press Enter. 2. Wait for "Offline NT Password & Registry Editor" to Load On the screen below, you'll see is several lines of text that quickly run down the screen. You don't need to do anything here. Wait for "Offline NT Password & Registry Editor" to load. 3. Choose the Correct Hard Drive Partition 4. Confirm the Windows Registry Path 5. Choose the Password Reset Option Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is now asking which part of the registry it should load. Press ENTER to accept the default choice of Password reset.7. Enter the Username to Edit Offline NT Password & Registry Editor now needs to know which user's password you'd like to delete (erase, clear, blank, remove, call it what you like). A default user is listed between the brackets at the prompt. In the above example, you can see that it's the Administrator user. If the default user is the user you'd like to remove the password from, simply press ENTER. Otherwise, enter the username and then press ENTER. 8. Type 1 to Clear (blank) user password and then press ENTER At the bottom of the screen you'll see the User Edit Menu with several options to choose from. Type 1 for Clear (blank) user password and then press ENTER. 9. Type ! to quit the User Edit Tool Assuming there weren't any problems, you should see a Password cleared! message after entering 1 in the previous step. Type ! to quit editing user and then press ENTER. 10. Type q to Quit Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Enter q and then press ENTER to quit the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor registry editing tool. Important: You're still not done! You need to confirm your password reset change in the next step before it will take effect. 11. Type y and then press ENTER to confirm Password Reset Changes At the Step FOUR: Writing back changes menu, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor asks if you want to write file(s) back. Type y and then press ENTER. You should see an EDIT COMPLETE message appear on screen. If you do, it means that Offline NT Password & Registry Editor has written the password changes to your computer! 12. Confirm That You're Finished Using Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Offline NT Password & Registry Editor gives you an option here to rerun the program. If you've been following along with this guide and everything seems to have worked properly then there's little reason to repeat anything. Press ENTER to confirm the default option of not rerunning the password reset. 13. Remove Hiren's BootCD and Restart the Computer
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