Today more and more computer users lose of forget their computer password. If you are easy to forget password, creating a password reset disk in advance is necessary. The password reset disk could help you reset Windows password when you forget it. But if you forget to create such a disk, what should you do to regain access to your computer when you forget the logon password? There is no need to worry about because you can recover or reset your lost Windows password with the help of Windows password recovery software. In this article we introduce 3 excellent Windows password recovery software which can help you to recover or reset lost Windows password effectively.
1. Ophcrack
Ophcrack is an free Windows password recovery software based on rainbow tables. It provides an easy and safe way to recover lost Windows password. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It is claimed that these tables can crack 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords of up to 14 characters in usually a few minutes.
Ophcrack is regarded as the best free Windows password recovery software. But its disadvantage is that the size of its ISO image file is 496MB. It will cost you much time to download it to recover lost Windows password.
2. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is another excellent free Windows password recovery software to reset Windows logon password. It allows you to reset the password of any user that has a valid local account on your Windows system. And You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. This software works offline, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a CD or USB disk to do the password reset. By the way, it is also an almost fully functional registry editor.
The password reset speed of Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is faster than Ophcrack's. It is a good option for you to reset lost Windows password. But please note that Offline NT Password tool is completely text based, so it is a little inconvenient.
3. Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery
Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery is professional Windows password reset software which can help you reset Windows logon password by creating a password reset disk. It enables you to reset the lost Windows password. This software compatible with any version of Windows system, including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008/2003 and so on. So you can perform Windows 7 password recovery with this software. It has 3 editions to meet your different needs. And the enterprise edition of this software provides an safe way to reset lost Domain administrator password.