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How to Reset Your Forgotten Windows Password the Easy Way

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Boot off the Windows disk and select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner.

Follow through until you get to the option to open the Command Prompt, which you’ll want to select.

First you’ll want to type in the following command to backup the original sticky keys file:

copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\

Then you’ll copy the command prompt executable (cmd.exe) over top of the sticky keys executable:

copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

Now you can reboot the PC.

Resetting the Password

Once you get to the login screen, hit the Shift key 5 times, and you’ll see an administrator mode command prompt.

Now to reset the password—just type the following command, replacing the username and password with the combination you want:

net user geek MyNewPassword

That’s all there is to it. Now you can login.

Of course, you’ll probably want to put the original sethc.exe file back, which you can do by rebooting into the installation CD, opening the command prompt, and copying the c:\sethc.exe file back to c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe.

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How can I recover my sa Password?

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To start SQL Server in single-user mode add the parameter -m at the command line. The easiest way to do this is to use Configuration Manager. Stop the SQL Server Instance you want to change. Right click the instance to open the Properties dialog and click the Startup Parameters tab. Enter –m in the Startup parameters.

Next, start the SQL Server Instance. Then open an elevated command prompt and enter sqlcmd. In the sqlcmd windows enter a command like you see following to add your login to the sysadmin group.

EXEC sp_addsrvrolemember ‚CONTOSO\mikeo2′, ’sysadmin‘;
GO

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