How to find out a password from a computer and how to remove it?

How to find out a password from a computer and how to remove it? For the first time, password protection was introduced in Windows XP. Since then, the Microsoft development company has not changed this concept.

Speaking in a language that is understandable to all, a password is a common set of characters with which a computer identifies you as a user. No other combination is suitable except previously entered. It also includes access to the desktop and profile. When installing Windows or after it, each user creates a password for himself, naturally, if he has a password from the administrator account. Work with these "keys" in the company is carried out by the system administrator.

How to find out the password from a Windows 7 computer if it is forgotten by the user? The "secret word" is stored in the Windows registry, that is, in a special database. Each time, including your laptop or desktop computer, you enter your password, the system searches for the necessary combination in the necessary fields in the registry. In the case of a match, the system starts loading, and if the characters are entered incorrectly, you will have to repeat this action. If your computer is managed by an administrator, he can set up a user account lockout after a certain number of incorrect password attempts.

Now let's talk about what to do if we need a Windows XP password recovery:

1. 
   If you need to remove the password for a user with limited rights, you should first use the option called “Secure system login”. To do this, user accounts are required. They can be called up through the “Control Panel”.
2. Now you need to log in using the built-in administrator’s account, that is, you will have a login like “administrator” or the same word, but in Russian letters. If you know exactly what password is set for this account, enter it. As a rule, you do not need to enter a password, so leave the field blank and press "Enter".
3. Suppose you are already logged in. How to find out the password from the computer now? Everything is very simple. Click the "Start" button and in the "Control Panel" double-click to enter the "Accounts" item.
4. Among all the entries that you see there, select the one whose password you want to change / delete. After selecting this entry, edit it and click "Finish."

To change the password for the administrator account, you must take the drive that was used to install Windows 7 and boot from it.

1. Select “System Restore.
2. After that, open the command line, which we will use. I repeat, this method is suitable for Windows 7.
3. As you remember, the desired combination is stored in the registry. We will edit it with the “regedit” utility. To start it, enter the name in the command line and press Enter.
4. Now we need to find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section. Having opened the "File" menu, click "Download bush." Go to the drive where the OS is installed. Then we go this way: C: \ Windows \ System32 \ config \ SYSTEM. We call it a random name, for example, 111. After that, go to the subsection HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE => 111 => Setup. The parameter CmdLine will be on the right side, double-click to open it and change the value to cmd.exe. You will also find the SetupType parameter there. You must change its value from 0 to 2.
5. Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section with one click of the left mouse button and go to the "File", but this time select "Unload the bush".
6. Now the installation disk can be removed and rebooted.

After the usual boot of Windows 7, we see the command line window that opens. We introduce the following:

net user username new_password

Here user_name is the login, the password from which has been lost, new_password is the desired password for the account.

Done! Now you know how to find out the password from the computer.