How To: Create a Password Reset Disk With a USB Flash Drive in Windows Vista

With Windows XP built in password reset disk utility, you can create a password reset disk so that you can easily recovered from the event of a forgotten password ,with out use of any third party recovery software’s. The only problem on Windows XP ,with using the password reset utility is that it requires a floppy drive for creating disk. Back then that was an acceptable solution, but these days, the floppy drive is uncommon.

With Windows Vista, the requirement for creating a password reset disk has changed and more advanced. Now you can select any media, including using a USB thumb drive to create password reset disk to reset your password.

To create a USB password reset disk on Windows Vista, click on Start \ Run and type Control Userpasswords in the Start Search box. In the Programs list, click and open Control Userpasswords and follow the steps below:

pswd rst dsk

You can also disconnect the USB drive if it is no longer needed. You may also want to label the USB drive as a reminder that it is the password reset disk for future reference.

Now that you created the disk, to use it when you have forgotten your password, follow these steps:

Vista_password_reset

Note:Using a USB flash disk drive with the password reset utility, can be run on all editions of Windows Vista. Once you have created the password reset disk, it can not be used to reset a password for another Computer (only the  Windows Vista Computer where the utility was run against). Also, consider keeping the USB flash memory disk in a safe location, since anyone can use the disk to reset the password and gain access to your Computer.

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Written by Tony on November 2nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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#1. November 18th, 2009, at 8:19 AM.

Windows Password Key 8.0 is a very quick and useful utility for recovering passwords. Just an

easy to use bootable CD/DVD . It can also be used on a USB Flash Drive.

http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/

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