Create a password reset disk in Windows Vista

                  In previous Windows systems such as Windows XP, if the user forgot the login password, especially if he forgot the administrator account password and could not log in to the system and could not reset the password, the only solution might be to find a third-party tool or Service to try to crack the password - of course, the corresponding strategy also applies in Windows Vista, such as our previous method of cracking the Windows vista local administrator password and retrieving the username and password in Windows Vista - - Relatively speaking, such an approach is not only clumsy, but often it does not necessarily guarantee success.

In Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a more intimate feature to solve this problem by creating a "password reset disk" to simply reset the password when the user forgets the password. Avoid the embarrassing situation of time-consuming and laborious looking for cracking passwords or having to reinstall the system.

Creating a password reset disk in Windows Vista

1. Log in with the user account you want to create a password reset disk - of course, it is usually an administrator account, after all, the password of other accounts Even if you lose it, it won't cause too much problem. You can reset your password at any time by logging in with an administrator account.

2. Click Start => Control Panel => "User Account and Family Safety" => "User Account"
or enter the following command directly in the Start Menu search box and press Enter:

Control.exe /Name Microsoft.UserAccounts

3. Click “Create Password Reset Disk” in the task list on the left sidebar;

4. Click “Continue” in the pop-up window. , you can see the option to save the location of the password information, you can choose a floppy drive or USB storage device;

Off-topic: Careful friends may have found that the password in the previous task list is heavy "Settings" is displayed as "Password Reset Disk" in this window, although this change will not Caused users misunderstanding, but for an important product such as Windows Vista, such inconsistent translation is inevitably irritating. ——Vista World is not interested in attacking Microsoft China.

5. Insert a floppy disk or USB storage device such as a USB flash drive or external hard disk. Click Next and enter the account password as required.

Use password reset disk when forgetting login password

Once the password reset disk is created, forgetting the account password is no longer a big problem.

When you log in to Windows Vista, if you forget your password or enter the wrong password, you will see a link called "Reset Password..." in the login screen. Just insert you. The password reset disk created for this account, click the link, press the wizard to simply reset the password, and then successfully log in to Windows Vista.