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How To Reset Administrator Password Offline by Using Hiren Boot CD

This document provides step-by-step instructions for resetting the Administrator password offline using Hiren's Boot CD. The key steps are: 1. Booting the computer from the Hiren's Boot CD/USB which contains password resetting tools. 2. Using the password resetting tool to select the Administrator account, clear the password, and save the changes to the SAM file on the hard drive. 3. Rebooting the computer normally to login without a password as it has now been cleared for the Administrator account.

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How To Reset Administrator Password Offline by Using Hiren Boot CD

This document provides step-by-step instructions for resetting the Administrator password offline using Hiren's Boot CD. The key steps are: 1. Booting the computer from the Hiren's Boot CD/USB which contains password resetting tools. 2. Using the password resetting tool to select the Administrator account, clear the password, and save the changes to the SAM file on the hard drive. 3. Rebooting the computer normally to login without a password as it has now been cleared for the Administrator account.

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How to reset Administrator password Offline by using

Hiren Boot CD
Hellow Friends hear i will demonstrate you to reset Administrator password offline by using Hiren boot
CD.
Now a day's i got many Calls regarding Forgot Administrator Password so i plan to post same
problem solution, hope this solution may help you tooo.
below solution is for education purpose only.
prior to explaining the solution download "Hiren Boot CD" from below official link.
http://www.hiren.info
on above link you can get how to burn CD and Make bootable pendrive information with step by step.
Step By Steps:
1) insert Bootable CD / USB pendrive and boot computer with bootable CD/USB.
2) After booting from CD you will get Hiren Boot CD Home page with Many Options.
3) Choose "offline NT/2000/xp/vista/7 Password changer".
4) Now it will asking for input " Boot : " just press Enter.

5) it will start loading file systems and show available HDD and all partitions, SelectBOOT Partition. in
My case boot partition was 1 as mentioned below image. After selecting partition number and
press enter.

6) now it will take a minute to get information from HDD and ask for your input about windows
system32/config Directory.
Generally by default Boot Partition has this path otherwise need to mentioned hear.
Just Press Enter in my Case.

7) Now Actual Step Two Starts of Hiren Boot CD.


it will ask for user inputs
1. Password reset [sam system security]
2. Recovery System Console parameters [software]
q. quit
Select 1 for password reset and press enter.

8) Step Three : password or registry edit.

Select "1" for edit user data and passwords then press enter.

9) now it will show total users available in the system, select the particular users which you want to
reset password.
in my case i use "Administrator" user account to reset password
Note : if you want to reset in build administrator Account password then just press enter otherwise
type respective username.
In windows 7 operating system Administrator Account has been disabled by default, in that case need
to enable user account first and then reset password.

10 ) Select "Clear {blank} user password" option to clear password.


Select "1" and press Enter.

11) Password Cleared message.

12 ) A

12) This is very important step in this exercise, password is cleared but not save yet!!!, so need to
save changes by pressing " !" and enter.
Many peoples are clear the password and restart computer and not get the result because forgot
to save changes in registry because this is registry edit step need to commit changes in to registry
after changes.

13) Now Press "q" to save and exit.

14) Now SAM has been changed and status should be OK as mentioned in below image.
now it will ask for user input to write SAM File, Press "y".
Press "n" to exit.

15) Greetings!! password has been cleared, now remove CD/USB Drive from Computer and
Press ctrl+Alt+Del button to restart.

Start Computer in normal mode and Enjoy!!!!

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