How to Unlock Windows Local Admin Password with USB Flash Drive

Lost Windows administrator password and cannot login your computer? As the questions below:

1. How do I unlock my computer if I forgot the only one administrator password?

2. I forgot my laptop Windows 10 password and a password reset disk is not created, how to unlock my Windows 10 laptop?

3. I need help unlocking my windows 7 password, my son has done something and I can't log on to my computer.

Don't worry, there are some tips to unlock Windows password without the original one.

Tip 1: Unlock Windows Password with professional Windows Password Recovery Tool

Tip 2: Unlock Windows password by using a Script

Tip 3: Unlock Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP Password with Password Reset Disk

Tip One: Unlock Windows Password with Professional Windows Password Recovery Tool.

This is a universal Windows password recovery software, Windows Password Rescuer Professional, which can be used to unlock Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, Windows server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003/2000 local administrator and user password with CD/DVD or USB flash drive. By using this software, all user accounts of your computer will be displayed and you just need to click one and click "Reset Password" button, then you can login that user account without password or with new password. Please see how to unlock Windows 7 password (It is the same as this on other Windows OS):

Step 1: Download and install Windows Password Rescuer Professional on "another computer" to create a Windows Password Recovery Disk.

This disk can be used to unlock Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, server 2022/2019/2016/2008/2003/2000 local administrator and other user password. Here I will show you how to unlock Windows 7 password with USB.

Purchase Windows Password Rescuer Professional full version, then you will receive an email contains the full version download link. Download the software from that link and install it, then run the software.

Note: Windows Password Rescuer trial version can only display the user accounts of your computer, but cannot reset password.

1. Insert a blank CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Choose CD/DVD or USB Device option.

2. Select the CD/DVD or USB drive name which you inserted, click Begin Burning to start burning.

Create password recovery disk with CD or DVD

Step 2: Insert the recovery disk to your locked computer and boot your computer from CD/DVD or USB.

Create a Windows password recovery disk with CD/DVD, How to boot from CD/DVD-ROM.

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When you save the new setup and exit the BIOS SETUP, the computer will restart automatically and boot from the recovery disk.

Step 3: Unlock Windows password with a few clicks.

After booting from CD/DVD or USB, Windows Password Rescuer Professional starts automatically and ready.

1. All Windows user accounts will be listed, click one you want to reset its password.

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

3. Administrator password has been removed and show blank.

4. Click Reboot. When a confirm message pops up, take out your Windows password recovery disk first, and click Yes to restart your computer then you can login Windows 7 administrator without password.

Tip Two: Unlock Windows Password by Using A Script

Firstly, create a USB boot disk with password reset script yourself, then use it to unlock Windows password on your computer. It is available for unlocking Windows 7/vista/XP/2008/2003/2000 password.

1. Create a windows PE boot disk, and use it to boot your locked computer.

2. Write a script as below, It means to set administrator account password to 123.

net user administrator 123

3. Edit registry offline to setup that the script can run while Windows start up.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\State
\Machine\Scripts\Startup]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\State
\Machine\Scripts\Startup\0]

"GPO-ID"="LocalGPO"

"SOM-ID"="Local"

"FileSysPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\System32
\\GroupPolicy\\Machine"

"DisplayName"="Local Group Policy"

"GPOName"="Local Group Policy"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\State
\Machine\Scripts\Startup\0\0]

"Script"="C:\\windows\\system32\\adhack.bat"
// script file path

"Parameters"=""
"ExecTime"=hex(b):db,07,0c,00,03,00,0e,
00,00,00,21,00,13,00,1f,00
"LastPolicyTime"=dword:00fd86f8

4. After you boot your computer from this disk successfully, you can reboot and login administrator with new password:123.

Tip Three: Unlock Windows Password Using Password Reset Disk

If you have created a Password Reset Disk for preventing a forgotten password to your Windows account, you can easily reset the unknown password in seconds. A password reset disk can be created with USB flash drive which is very easy-to-use. Using a password reset disk to reset forgotten password is a free and easy way to unlock Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP without old password..

Take Windows 7 Password Reset Disk for example, learn how to unlock Windows 7 administrator password in seconds.

1. When you failed to login Windows 7, it will show you a link "Reset Password.." under the password box.

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2. Plug in your password reset disk(this can be created with USB), click the link open the password reset wizard.
3. Click Next, choose the drive name from the pull-down list, click Next.
4. Type a new password in the new password box, and type it again to confirm. Click Next→Finish. Then you can login Windows 7 again with the new password.