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Forgotten Win7 Password

This document provides instructions to reset or change the local administrator password on a Windows 7 system by using the repair process and replacing the utilman.exe file with cmd.exe to gain command prompt access.

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Forgotten Win7 Password

This document provides instructions to reset or change the local administrator password on a Windows 7 system by using the repair process and replacing the utilman.exe file with cmd.exe to gain command prompt access.

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Load Win7 install disc appropriate for system


2. Launch the "repair" process to get to command prompt
3. navigate to windows/system32
4. ren utilman.exe utilman.bak
5. copy cmd.exe utilman.exe
6. reboot like normal
7. press Windows key+U to get prompt
8. to reset password: net user username password ... add quotes around user name
if there's a space
9. to make new account: net user username password /add
10. make new account admin: net localgroup Administrators username /add
11. log in like normal
12. replace original utilman.exe by renaming
13. remove new account if necessary: net user usernam /delete

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