Almost every computer user uses a password from his account when working on his device. It happens differently in life, it often happens that this set of numbers / letters is forgotten or lost. What to do in this situation? How to access your information without the help of specialists? For this, there is a password reset disk. In this short article we will try to understand its purpose and method of creation.
In principle, the statement is true that, deciding to install protection on a computer, you must create a disk to reset it, hiding it in a safe place. The process of performing such a task is very simple, any user will be able to deal with it, and it will be incomparably easier than trying to start your device, forgetting / losing the password to it.
The only absurdity only. When you start the manager to create such a disk, you will see the following inscription: password reset disk. Well, what are the floppy disks now? If you find such a miracle of antiquity, then there’s nowhere to insert it, most often. But it’s okay, when you start acting according to the instructions, it turns out that you can use both a disk and a USB flash drive as a tool. The easiest way is to take the last option, because each person will always find several such gizmos. In addition, you can use the one used: your information will not suffer, and the amount of memory that is needed for this is only a few kilobytes.
Well, when creating a password reset disk, you need to remember several important nuances: first, you need to do this for each individual account; secondly, the most recently created flash drive will work (if there are several); thirdly, changing the password in your account even a couple of times, you do not need to make a new disk, the old one will work quite successfully.
It's time to tell you how to create a password reset disk. Open “Start” and click on the photo of your account in the “User Accounts” section . Now we insert the USB flash drive into the computer and select the option “Create a password reset disk” on the right. The "Forgotten Password Wizard" window will open in front of us, where we click the "Next" button. In the next window, select the flash drive we need, with which we will, if necessary, reset the password. Enter the password for your account and click "Next" again. Now special computer software will begin the process of creating a flash drive. We are waiting and upon completion click “Next” and “Finish”. Everything is quick and easy. Our password reset disk is ready to use.
If interested, you can see what has changed in her memory. To do this, go to an external storage medium and you can see that there was only one new file called userkey.psw. It turns out that this is what we need.
Well, now the most important thing, for the sake of which all this fuss was started. How to reset the Windows password?
When entering the system, a password is required. You forgot him. Nothing, try to log in without entering a password. You will see the message “Reset Password”. Click on it, insert the magic flash drive and press "Next". A new window will pop up asking you to create a new cipher. If you want to do this, enter it twice, and then - a hint. You no longer have this desire, just click "Next" again. All password reset. Your device will start and you can use it again.