Use Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor to Clear the Password

This turorial shows how to use Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor to clear your lost password.

This is a cost-free way to clear your Windows password, but it request that you have the basic knowledge of linux shell. You should take care of every step. The condition you come across may be a little different from the following due to we use different hardware, different system, and different partition.

The following steps(1. 2. 3. 4. 5.) instruct how to recover your password.

1. Download Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor and required software.

1.1 To create CD/DVD disk, download this:http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/cd110511.zip

1.2 To create USB disk, download this:http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/usb110511.zip

2. Write Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor to CD/DVD disc or USB drive.

2.1 Create CD/DVD disk.

2.1.1 Unzipped the file cd110511.zip, and then you will get a iso file: cd110511.iso.
2.1.2 If you already installed CD/DVD burn software, you select Burn ISO option to burn iso file to cd or dvd disc. Or you can download CDBurnerXP, and then use it to burn iso file to CD/DVD disc.

2.2 Create USB disk.

2.2.1 Prepare a blank USB drive or backup files in USB drive before starting the following steps.
2.2.2 Unzipped all files in usb110511.zip to the root directory of USB drive.
2.2.3 Install boot loader to USB drive. Run command prompt (run as administrator if possible), type: X:\syslinux.exe –ma X: .X indicates your USB drive letter; remember to replace it with you USB drive letter.

3. Boot computer from the disk.

3.1 To set your computer boot from CD/DVD-ROM, follow the instruction at How to Set Your Computer BIOS to Boot from CD/DVD

3.2 To set your computer boot from USB, follow the instruction at How to Set Your Computer BIOS to Boot from USB Flash Drive.

After setting computer boot from CD/DVD-ROM or USB flash drive, insert the disk and restart computer, and wait for Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor to startup.

4. Clear the password.

4.1 When Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor startup run to following screenshot, type: d(automatically start disk drivers), and then press enter to go on.

4.2 When run to following screenshot, type 1( = show propbable Windows (NTFS) partition only ), and then press enter to go on.

4.3 At following screenshot, press enter to go on.

4.4 At following screenshot, type 1, and then press enter to go on.

4.5 At following screenshot, type 1 (- edit user data and password), and then press enter to go on.

4.6 At following screenshot, input a user name (now is Administrator), and then press enter to go on.

4.7 At following screenshot, type 1 (- clear (blank) user password), and then press enter to go on.

4.8 At following screenshot, it showed "Password cleared". Type ! to go on.

4.9 At following screenshot, type q and press enter to quit.

4.10 At following screenshot, type y and press enter to save change to file.

4.11 At following screenshot, type n and press enter to quit.

4.12 When come to following screenshot, we have successfully cleared the password to blank. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart computer.

5. Restart your computer and log on with blank password.

After logging on to your windows, you can change or set password for any user.