How to Reset Password on Acer Laptop Windows 7 without Disk
“I forgot my admin password to my Acer laptop Windows 7, how to reset my Acer laptop password Windows 7 if I don’t have another available admin account?”
This is a common question frequently asked by many Windows 7 users. In fact, there are many ways to reset forgotten Windows 7 password on Acer laptop or desktop computer. However, most of these methods are unavailable if you don't have an available admin account in your Windows 7 system.
This article will give you an available method for resetting password on Acer laptop Windows 7 without using admin account even a disk. If it doesn’t work for you, just to use a USB flash drive to easily reset Windows 7 admin password on your Acer laptop without losing data.
Method 1: Reset Password on Acer Laptop Windows 7 without Disk or Software.
Method 2: Reset Acer Laptop Password Windows 7 with Password Reset Wizard.
Method 3: Reset Admin Password on Acer Laptop Windows 7 with USB Flash Drive.
Methods in this article work for Acer Aspire, Spin, Swift, TravelMate and any other brand of computers.
Method 1: Reset Password on Acer Laptop Windows 7 without Disk or Software.
When you forgot Windows 7 admin password to your Acer laptop, the best way to get back into your laptop is resetting the forgotten admin password. If you have an available admin account, this task will become very easy.
In fact, when you install Windows 7 system on your Acer laptop for the first time, you have to create an administrator account to use your computer. Once you created the user account, the system will disable it and you cannot sign in it in normal start mode. However, you can login with this built-in administrator in Windows 7 Safe Mode and commonly people don’t create a password for the built-in administrator.
Once you sign in administrator without password, you can reset other admin accounts password without disk or any software. Let’s see how to boot Windows 7 in Safe Mode with Command Prompt and then use a single command to reset Windows 7 admin password on Acer laptop.
Step 1: Start your Acer laptop and press F8 or Fn+F8 immediately to open “Advanced Boot Options” for Windows 7. Press arrow keys to highlight “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and then press Enter to boot Windows 7.
Step 2: Once Windows 7 login screen comes out, you will see the built-in administrator is displayed beside your admin account. Click the administrator to sign in without password.
Step 3: CMD will run automatically, now you are able to reset your lost Windows 7 admin password by using a simple command. Just to type “net user [username] [new password]” and then press Enter to run the command. The new password will replace your original password and all data of your admin account will remain unchanged. After that, restart your Acer laptop Windows 7 and then you can log on Windows 7 with the new password.
Method 2: Reset Acer Laptop Password Windows 7 with Password Reset Wizard.
When you add a new admin account to Windows 7 and create a strong password to protect the user account, you’d better to create a password reset disk to prevent forgetting the password. Once you forgot your password in future, just to use the password reset disk to open Windows 7 password reset wizard and reset the forgotten password easily without data loss.
Step 1: Start your Acer laptop, when Windows 7 login screen comes out, click your admin account and enter a wrong password. It will tell you the password is incorrect. Click OK, you will see there is a link to reset password is displayed under the password box. Insert you password reset disk and then select the password reset link.
Step 2: When “Password Reset Wizard” pops up, click “Next” to continue.
Step 3: You password reset disk will be shown in the pull down list. Drop down the list and select your password reset disk. Click “Next” to continue.
Step 4: Choose a new password for your admin account, type a password hint or not and then click “Next”.
Step 5: You have successfully replace your old password with the new one. Click “Finish” to close the “Password Reset Wizard”.
Step 6: Now you can login your admin account with the new password. Note: You can use your password reset disk to reset password for this user account at any time so you don’t need to update your password reset disk.
Method 3: Reset Admin Password on Acer Laptop Windows 7 with USB Flash Drive.
If you forgot Windows 7 admin password no reset disk and unfortunately lost access to the built-in administrator, you can use Password Rescuer Bundle to easily reset forgotten Windows 7 admin and user password on your Acer laptop with help of a USB flash drive. Password Rescuer Bundle is currently the best password recovery tool which was developed date from 2006. Now it is working perfectly for any Windows system such as Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP and Windows server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003 etc. What’s more, you can use it to recover lost password fast for Office documents and other files such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, ZIP, RAR and PDF files.
Let’s see how to use the software to reset Windows 7 admin password on Acer laptop or desktop computer. It also works for Dell, HP, Asus, Toshiba, Samsung, HUAWEI, Lenovo etc.
Step 1: Log on to another computer with administrator, download and install “Password Rescuer Bundle Personal” program (about 38 M).
Step 2: Launch the software. Plug a blank USB flash drive and select “Remove Windows administrator and user passwords”.
Step 3: In the next screen, select “Windows Password Rescuer” which allows you to create a Windows password recovery disk with CD/DVD or USB flash drive.
Step 4: Choose “Burn to USB” – select your USB drive from the pull down list – then click “Burn” button to start burning.
Step 5: Once it completes burning, click “OK” and then unplug your USB flash drive.
Step 6: Connect the burned USB flash drive to your locked Acer laptop.
Step 7: Power on your laptop and then hit F12 as soon as possible to open Boot Options, select your USB drive and then press Enter to boot from USB.
Step 8: Once you Acer laptop boots from USB, it will load Windows Password Rescuer Personal. All local user accounts of Windows 7 will be displayed. Now select your admin account form list.
Step 9: Click “Reset Password” button, when a confirm message pops up, click “Yes” to reset the admin password to “blank”.
Step 10: You have successfully reset the password for you user account and everything else about the user account will remain unchanged.
Step 11: Now click “Reboot”, when a confirm message pops up, remove your USB flash drive and then click “Yes” to restart your Acer laptop. When Windows 7 welcome screen comes out, click your user account to sign in without password and you will now be able to work on the laptop as usual.