If you forget your Windows password, Microsoft can't help you, gurus on the Internet can't help you, and your mom can't help you. What's a person to do? You need to protect yourself against losing or forgetting a Windows password.
First, you can add a hint to your password prompt in Windows. Follow these steps:
1. Pop up the Start menu.
2. Click your account's icon at the top right of the menu.
By clicking your picture, you summon the User Accounts window in the Control Panel, where you can make changes to your account.
3. Click the item titled Change My Password.
You use the next screen to enter a new password and also enter the password hint.
4. Type your current password.
5. Type a new password, or just retype the current password, which you must do twice per the directions in the window.
6. Type a password hint.
The password hint should help clue you in to what the password is, if you forget it. Don't make the password hint the same as the password! That's like taping your house key to the front door — or leaving it in the lock!
7. Click the Change Password button.
To see the password hint, you need to be at the Windows login screen, where you type the password to log in. When you mistype the password, Windows first scolds you; but then when it displays the login screen again, your password hint appears below the password text box.
For even more protection against losing a password, you can create a Password Reset disk. Follow Steps 1 and 2 from the preceding step list to open the User Account information window. From the left, click the link titled Create a Password Reset Disk. Follow the directions on the screen to use the Forgotten Password Reset Wizard.
The Password Reset disk isn't a disk; it's a file, and it can be stored on any removable storage device.
To use the Password Reset disk, simply try to log in to Windows without typing your password. When you do, you're asked whether you want to use the Password Reset disk. Just follow the instructions to do so.
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