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How to Reset HP Password-HP Laptop Password Recovery

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:19:15 -0600

HP has been famous for her excellent brands many year, especially HP Compaq Presario CQ, HP Pavilion dv laptops were lots of people’s favorite. There are some people forgot HP laptop password date from the HP laptop come out. In fact, people meet such a problem is not so trouble now so that you do not worry about lost laptop password. There are many HP password recovery solutions can be easily found on internet.
Here I collect some popular solutions to help reset HP laptop password if your laptop installed Windows system such as Windows 7/Vista/XP.

Solution 1 Reset HP laptop password by another user account with administrator privilege.

If you have another available user account as administrator, you can use this account to reset other user password when you forgot HP password. Take Windows XP for example, follow the steps bellow:
Step 1: Login Windows as administrator, click “control panel” and open “user accounts” to access users list.
Step 2: Click whichever user account which you want to reset its password, select “change the password” or “remove the password”.
Step 3: Type a new password in the “New password box” and type it again to confirm. Input a password hint or not then click “OK” to complete HP password reset.

Note, there is a hide Administrator account was created in our computer when we install Windows system. You can login with it in safe mode.
Step 1: Press F8 immediately when restart your HP laptop to access safe mode.
Step 2: Refer to the 2,3 step above to reset password of whichever user account.

Solution 2 Reset HP laptop password with Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor.

Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor is a famous software which can be used to reset HP laptop password that installed Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/VIST/WIN7/2008 when you lost HP password, but note that it just can reset Windows local password. If you want to reset domain password, you can use another popular software, Windows Password Rescuer, to reset it on Windows 2008/2003/2000. Get to the point, here are the steps to reset HP password:

Step 1: Download Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor and required software such as CD burning tool or USB burning tool.
Step 2: Burn the Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor ISO file to a blank CD or USB drive.
Step 3: Set your HP laptop to boot from CD or USB drive via BIOS SETUP.
Step 4: After Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor start up successfully, resetting HP laptop password by a few steps in DOS setting.

In consideration of the complex operations of the process which requires the basic knowledge of linux shell and it is also depend on different computer or different Operating System, I recommend computer novice to use solution 3. Or you can google for “Reset Windows password with Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor” to complete HP password reset task.

Solution 3 Reset HP password with professional password recovery tool.

If you do not have another administrator account on HP laptop or you have little experience in Windows or LUNIX operations, you can use Windows Password Rescuer to help reset HP password without lose date. This software was provided by DAOSSOFT corperation, it supports HP laptop password recovery in Windows 7/Vista/XP and HP computer installed Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000. About four steps bellow:

Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Rescuer on another available computer.
Step 2: Run the software to burn it to a blank CD or USB. The process of burning is automatically and quickly. This is why so many computer novice choose it to help recover Windows password.
Step 3: Set your HP laptop to boot from CD (burn it to a CD ) or USB drive (burn it to a USB drive) via BIOS SETUP. If you have trouble in this step, please refer to:
How to set computer boot from CD/DVD.
How to set computer boot from USB drive.
Step 4: After the laptop boot from CD or USB, Windows Password Rescuer will display a friend operation window. Then you can reset whichever user password by a few clicks.

You also can use Windows Password Rescuer to create a new user with administrator privileges for your HP OEM Windows without login. you can login Windows directly and/or change other user password.

These three solutions were great that can perfectly work in any people’s HP laptop and HP computer. I have also tested each solution myself.

If you are using HP Compaq computer with Windows 2008/2003/2000 as a server, you can use Windows Password Rescuer Advanced edition to reset Windows domain password when you lost HP Compaq password.

How to Reset Dell Password-Forgot Dell Admin Password

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:15:21 -0600

Usually we can use different passwords to protect our Dell laptop. Such as: the Hard drive password (master and user), the Supervisor password (Bios password), the Power-on password, and the Operating System Password.

This article describes three methods to complete dell laptop password recovery in Windows operating system such as Windows 7/Vista/XP, reset dell password without lose anything. From now on, you don’t need to worry about:
1. What can I do when forgot dell admin password?
2. How to reset dell laptop password if I lost dell password or my dell password is expired? 3. I have bought an old dell laptop but did not know the Windows password.

Commonly, we can try three great solutions to reset dell password when we forgot dell password. Take it easy, have a cup of coffee and begin.

Solution 1: Reset dell password by another account with admin privileges.

1. Login dell laptop as administrator when you want to reset a forgotten user password.
2. Click “start” and select “control panel”, click user accounts and click “Manage another account” to access the user account which you want to reset its password. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3. Click “change the password” and type your new password, type your new password again to confirm it, and then Click “OK” to complete dell laptop password reset.

Solution 2: Reset dell Windows password with Windows password reset disk.

Usually we can create a Windows password reset disk in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. This is a great gift given by Microsoft that we can use it to reset a lost dell password instantly and it is free. Of course, the password reset disk was created for a certain account password, you must create a new one when you change the password. Now let us start resetting dell admin password for step-by-step. Here we take Windows 7 password reset disk for example:
If you ready have a reset disk, please follow steps below:

Step1: Start/restart your computer, insert a blank USB drive. In the welcome screen, press ctrl+alt+delete twice, get into the log on box. Then type the user name that you want to use and a wrong password or leave it blank, then press ENTER or click OK. It will show you logon failed and there is a password hint “reset password”.
Step2: Click “Reset password” it will show you the “Password Reset Wizard”. Click “Next” to continue.
Step 3: Choose the disk which you just inserted, click “Next”.
Step 4: Type a new password in the Type a new password box, and then type the password again to confirm it. In the Type a new password hint box, type a hint for the password or not, and then click “Next”and “Finish”.
Step 5: Try to log on to Windows 7 again when use the new password you just set.

Solution 3: Use professional password recovery tool to recover dell password.

If the two solutions cannot help you reset forgotten dell laptop password, no matter what your dell Windows system is Windows 7/vista/XP. Do not worry, we can use dell password recovery tool to complete this task. Windows Password Rescuer is designed for resetting dell Windows 7/vista/XP password. What you should do is prepare a bootable CD/DVD or USB drive and a computer you have access to. Follow four steps help you reset dell windows password without lose anything:

Note: You also can use Windows Password Rescuer to reset Windows 2008/2003/2000 local or domain password easily by these steps on dell computer.

Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Rescuer on another computer you have access to.
Step 2: Run the software to create a Windows password recovery disk. You just need to burn it to a blank CD/DVD or USB drive.
Step 3: Insert the Windows password recovery disk to your dell laptop or dell computer, and set the computer boot from the password recovery disk by BIOS setting. If you have trouble in BIOS setting, refer to:
How to set computer boot from CD/DVD.
How to set computer boot from USB drive.
Step 4: After boot from the password recovery disk, Windows Password Rescuer will start up and display a friendly operating window. Then you can reset whichever account password of your dell computer just by a few clicks.

You also can use Windows Password Rescuer to create a new user with administrator privileges for your dell OEM Windows without login. With this new user, you can login your dell computer directly and access control panel to reset other user password. Note that if you use this function to stole other people’s computer data you will be punished by law.