After rebooting you will be able to log in to Windows 7 without entering a password. Remove the Hiren’s Boot CD and press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to reboot your computer. This screen shows that we have reached the final step: writing the password changes to disk. Type q and press Enter to quit the chntpw tool. Type 1 for “Clear (blank) user password” and then press Enter. Notice at the bottom of the screen that I have typed in Tom and now I just need to press Enter. The account that I am trying to clear the password on is the Tom account. This screen shows that three users were discovered: Administrator, Guest and Tom. Choose the default choice “ – Password reset ” and press Enter. The next screen will ask which part of the registry it should load. Just press Enter to accept the default Windows Registry path. Except in the rarest of occasions, the default location will be the correct one. Now it needs to know the exact location of the Windows registry. Your situation may be different if you have multiple partitions or hard disk drives. In my screenshot you can see that there is only one partition, so I type in the number 1 and press Enter. On the following screen you need to select the partition where Windows 7 is located. Next you’ll see the Linux kernel boot options. Select Offline NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 Password Changer and hit Enter Once the computer has started from the CD, you will get to Hiren Boot CD startup page with many utilities. Power on your computer and make the CD-ROM to boot first

iso image file: Hiren’s.BootCD.15.2.iso.īurn the ISO image to your CD using your favourite burner (or put it to a USB flash drive with the freeware ISO2Disc). The file extracts into a folder and within that folder you will find the bootable.

Scroll down the page and download the compressed file Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip. Go to the website and click the Download link. Steps to reset your password using Hiren boot

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