What is windows password reset disk? It’s a simple tool which allows you to reset the password of your administrator user account.There are lot of scenarios where in the password reset disk will come in handy.At my work place, all the trainer’s share a common computer for taking presentations. Having a password reset disk is helpful in case one of the user changed and cannot recollect the password. I keep another copy at home for my mom’s windows 7 PC.You never know when you need it. Also if you got the habit of changing password frequently and tend to forget it, then create a password reset tool.
Password Reset Disk can be easily created without any technical knowledge. Go through the simple steps mentioned below. This is applicable for Vista as well.Sorry, I stopped XP support 
If you are reading this post for resetting password without a password reset disk in hand,then you need the help of 3rd party software to reset password.I will cover the list of third party softwares in a later post.
Create password reset disk
1. Click start –>search–> type “password reset”. It will open “create a password reset disk”. This option can also be opened from control panel –>user accounts
2. Insert USB or floppy drive.Select the drive from the list.In this case, my drive is G:
3. Enter current user account password
4. Preparing the password reset disk
5. Finishing password reset disk
Reset the password using password reset disk
1. Click on reset password in windows 7 login screen
2. Enter the USB disk or Floppy where the password reset disk is saved.It pops up reset account password windows.Enter the password used when created the disk.
- type password
3. Finalizing the reset disk wizard.
That’s it. Now you can start using windows 7 with the reset password
password reset disk drawbacks
- The reset disk needs to be created in advance anticipating a disaster might happen in the future
- You need to create a new password reset disk, every time when you change the password of your account
- Password create disk cannot be used if your computer is in a domain.You need to get the help of system administrator of your domain to do the password reset
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