Create a Windows 7 Password Reset Disk on a Pen Drive

1.       Get a small capacity pen drive which is cheap and you should keep it at a safe place, but not so safe that you forget where you kept it when you need it sometime in future.

2.       Insert a pen drive (backup any data if present on the pen drive and delete everything).

3.       Go to Windows 7 Start Menu and type “create password reset disk” in the start menu search and launch the program “Create a password reset disk” which will be highlighted in the search results.

4.       Follow the simple Password reset wizard as seen below, by selecting the pen drive from a list of drives it will show you. Note: If you have not inserted a pen drive before launching the utility, it will not work and will give an error. If the pen drive is in place, you will see the wizard. It will also ask for your current password to create a password reset pen drive.

5.       Now you simple need to keep this drive at a safe place. You can use this in case you forget your Windows 7 Password sometime in future, just click forgotten password on the login screen and choose the option to Reset password after inserting this pen drive into any of the working USB ports of your computer.

6.       Windows will honor only the most recent password reset disk that you have created, so in case you happen to create more than one disk, only the one which is latest will work, all other old password reset disk will not be able to reset the Windows password.

Tips

• Windows will honor only the most recent password reset disk if you have created more than one.
• The Windows Password Reset disk can be used only in the computer which you create it last time.