How to Reset Dell Laptop Password Windows 7 If Forgot Administrator Password

Forgot Windows 7 password and locked out of your Dell laptop? Don't worry. This tutorial will show you how to reset forgotten Windows 7 administrator password on a Dell laptop without losing data. Quickly unlock your Dell laptop Windows 7 without password!

Method 1: Reset dell Windows 7 password with Windows password reset disk.

If you forgot laptop password Windows 7 or other system, usually we can use a password reset disk to create a new password. A password reset disk must be created before you forgot the password. However, once you created a reset disk, it can be used to reset any forgotten Windows 7 password without losing files. If you lost the password again, you can use the disk to reset it without create the disk again. Now see the step-by-step guide to reset Windows 7 administrator password on Dell laptop with Windows password reset disk.

Step 1: Start your laptop and insert your password reset disk. In the login screen, attempt to logon administrator with a wrong password. It will show you logon failed and a link “reset password”.

Step 2: Click the link and a “Password Reset Wizard” appears. Click “Next” to continue.

Step 3: Select the drive name which you just inserted, click “Next”.

Step 4: Type a new password and confirm it, and then click “Next - Finish”.

Step 5: Now you can log on to Windows 7 again with the new password.

Method 2: Reset dell laptop password Windows 7 by using an account with admin privileges.

This is an easy way to reset a forgotten user account password on Windows 7 and any other Windows system. But you need an available account which has admin privileges.

Step 1. Start your laptop and login as administrator.

Step 2. Click “start” button, open “control panel”, click user accounts and click “Manage another account” to access the user account which you want to reset its password. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, please provide the information.

Step 3. Click “change the password”, type a new password and confirm, and then click “OK” to finish.

Or you can right-click computer and choose manage, open Local Users and Computers, all user accounts of your computer will be list, right-click your user name and select “reset password”.

Method 3: Reset Dell Windows 7 password by using a Windows password recovery tool.

This is a universal way to reset forgotten Windows password on dell laptop, no matter what your Windows system is, Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP. Windows Password Rescuer Personal is designed to recover Windows password for any kinds of laptop, such as dell, hp, acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM etc. It not only can help reset laptop password Windows 7, but also Windows 10, 8.1, 8, Vista, XP and Windows 2000.

Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Rescuer Personal on another computer that you can install software on it.

Step 2: Run the software to create a Windows password recovery disk with CD/DVD or USB drive.

1. Insert a blank CD/USB Flash Drive, select the media type.

2. Select the drive name from pull-down list, click Begin Burning button. When complete burning, transfer the disk to your locked laptop to reset Windows password.

Step 3: Insert the Windows password recovery disk to your laptop, and set the laptop to boot from the disk by changing devices boot order in BIOS SETUP. If you have trouble in this step, please read more details in this page:

How to boot from CD or DVD.

How to boot from USB Flash Drive.

Step 4: After boot from the password recovery disk, Windows Password Rescuer will start automatically and display a friendly window. Then you can reset whichever account password of your laptop by a few clicks.

1. Click administrator from list.

2. Click Reset Password button, when a confirm message pops up, click Yes.

3. Password has been reset to blank, it means that you can login administrator account without password.

4. Click Reboot button, when a confirm message pops up, take out your disk and click Yes. After restarting, you can login Dell laptop Windows 7 as administrator without password.

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