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OS Windows

How to Reset Forgotten Password on Windows 10 / 8 / 7?

Try different passwords to log in to Windows but to no avail? How can I get rid of forgetting Windows password when locked out? Need to help your friend to get in to admin account as he couldn’t remember his password? This tutorial will show you two methods to reset forgotten login password on Windows 10 / 8 / 7.

Method 1: Using Password Reset Disk

With Windows built-in password reset feature, you can create a password reset disk from Control Panel so that you can easily reset a forgotten password when you’re locked out. If you’ve made a password reset disk in advance,  follow these steps:

Step 1: After rebooting to Windows login screen, type anything in the password prompt and hit Enter.  You’ll get the error message “ The password is incorrect. Try again.

Step 2: Once clicking OK, you’ll back to the login screen. Now, you can see the “Reset password” link below the password prompt. At this point, insert your password reset disk and click that link.

Reset Password
Reset Password

Step 3: When the Password Reset Wizard opens, click Next.

Password Reset Wizard
Password Reset Wizard

Step 4: Select the drive letter of your password reset disk and click Next.

Insert Password Reset Disk
Insert Password Reset Disk

Step 5: Type a new password, and type a hint that will remind you of the password if you forget it. Click Next.

Reset user account
Reset user account

Step 6: Click Finish. You can now log in with the new password.

 

Method 2: Using Password Recovery Tool

Forgot your Windows admin password and you don’t have a password reset disk? If you have lost admin access to your computer, you need to use third-party Windows password recovery tool. PCUnlocker is one of the best tools that can help you bypass, change, reset forgotten passwords of all users on your computer. Here is a walkthrough on using PCUnlocker to reset lost Windows 10 / 8 / 7 password easily:

Step 1: First of all, download the ISO image of PCUnlocker using a working computer. Double-click the just-downloaded .iso file. Windows might start a program that burns it to CD. If you want to create a bootable USB drive, download and install ISO2Disc.

ISO2Disc
ISO2Disc

Step 2: After getting PCUnlocker bootable CD ready, insert it into the computer you’re going to access, and boot off the CD. Once loading the compact operating system inside the CD, PCUnlocker will start.

PCUnlocker
PCUnlocker

Step 3: Choose your user in the account list, and click on Reset Password. This program will do almost whatever you want: reset forgotten login password, activate your account when it’s disabled or locked, promote the account to an administrator if necessary, etc.

Step 4: Click Restart. You can then sign into that Windows account without a password!

Conclusion

The method of using password reset disk is about as useful as not losing your Windows password because you have to create that disk when you can remember the administrator password. If you forgot to create a password reset disk, PCUnlocker can come into rescue. If you still facing any problem you can drop us comment.

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Android Mobile

How to Clear or Reset Android Keyboard History?

The modern phones whether it’s Android or iPhone or tablet are capable of keyboard by which users can search something or type a text. While using the keyboard, the keyboard will simply store them which is also called cache. Thus the keyboard history or simply keyboard cache are the used words on your device, then it will be saved as a cache on your device history, and they will appear automatically as a predictive text next time. Those predictive words that appear on the top of the keyboard sometimes can help you to type fast but in some cases, there might be appear something special like password of your account.

Predictive words on a keyboard have their own effects, sometimes it disturbs like you’d lose your passcode or any secret message, but in some cases, it can be helpful also. For example, if you have typed your email with the password, you don’t want to show in on predictive text to someone else, when anyone uses your device, he may find your password and email. This will happen when the keyboard suggests the words. No worries, because in this article I’m going to show you how to remove or reset Android Keyboard History and also turn off predictive text so whenever anyone gets your device, you’ll no need to worry about. Let’s move on.

Clear Personalized Data

There are couple of ways you can clear or delete the typing history on your Android device. It is straightforward to terminate them forever and they can not suggest any more words. If you got some words you want to clear, do the following:

1. Go to > Settings> General Managment.

Settings
Settings

> General Management

Settings
Settings

2. Tap on Language & Input.

General Management
General Management

3. Now tap on Virtual Keyboard.

Language & Input
Language & Input

3. Tap on Samsung Keyboard.

Virtual Keyboards
Virtual Keyboards

4. Tap on Reset Settings.

Samsung Keyboard
Samsung Keyboard

5. Tap on Clear Personalised Data.

Clear Personalized Data
Clear Personalized Data

Note: If you don’t want to show predictive words anymore you can switch the predictive text option off.

Predictive Text
Predictive Text

Reset Android Keyboard History

You might get the steps of clearing or delete the Android keyboard history but if you want to reset the whole keyboard so follow the steps:

5. Tap on Reset Keyboard Settings.

Reset Keyboard Settings
Reset Keyboard Settings

Conclusion: Some devices might have not this options but the steps are elementary, try to find language and input option then you’ll reach your target.

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Android

How to Reset Forgotten Android Password Without Losing Data?

Have you lost your Android smartphone password? Looking for the solution? If you do, so you’ve come to the right place where you can find the simple and very helpful solution without losing any data. There is nothing worse than losing data whether phone data or computer data, however, it’s good to be careful of that or always we should have a backup.

It’s natural that sometimes we forget the phone, tablet or computer passwords but it’s a common problem although there are several ways to reset passwords we’ve to consider big risk in every situation. If you don’t have access to an internet connection on your Android smartphone or any tablet so it’ll be very hard to reset your phone without losing any data, the only option that you have is to unlock or reset password via backup password or Google account otherwise you don’t have any other option without reset forgotten android password via Factory Reset.

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Reset Forgotten Android Password

Backup Password

There are three types of passwords in Android devices, as you are much familiar with the pattern, pin, password but in some devices like Samsung galaxy S5 or later or in Nexus you have seen that there is a new type of password, the fingerprint. When you set up pattern type on your device, it’ll require a backup password and as well as the fingerprint but Pin and Password are not required any backup password. This method can assist you to open your phone and reset the password but if you also forget the Backup password so you have two more options to get access to your phone see below.

Backup password
Backup password

Google Account

Another effective method that can make a simple solution reset your password is Google account. The Google account is an important requirement for the Android devices with which you can download the Apps from the Google Play store which is one of the biggest markets in Android OS. Google account can help you to open your phone and reset the password if you’re connected to a network already, this trick is outstanding. The easiest and sharpest method to save your data and reset your password once again is Google account if you’re connected to the internet otherwise you can’t.

Unlock via Google account
Unlock via Google account

Factory reset

One of the popular and common ways of bypassing or resetting forgotten Android password is factory resetting your phone but the thing which matters the most is it doesn’t recover or save your data on your phone. Also, this method similar to other methods is easier and can be done in few minutes. Many people find it helpful when they have backed up their data and just factory reset their phones as we had discussed before the full backup of Android phones easily and if you don’t know how to do it then check out the following link.

Reset Forgotten Android Password
Factory Reset

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Servers Windows

How to Reset Forgotten Windows Server 2016 Password?

A password is the essentials of security for securing from all expected and unexpected happenings. While in Windows, you should protect your computer by locking it with a password. To do that so, you have to create a secure password to be well secured, but if you’ve done that before and now forgotten Windows password. Here in this guide, we will show you how to reset forgotten windows server password in some easy steps.

Notice: This guide works for all version of Windows such as Windows 7/vista, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016.

Reset Forgotten Windows Server 2016

1. Boot your system using bootable USB or CD/DVD, when the page appears just press Shift+F10 to open cmd (Command Prompt). If you don’t know how to boot then read the instruction below.

To Boot: Insert the USB or CD/DVD drive in the system and restart the computer, when the screen appears press F12 or press BIOS button and select the bootable device by pressing enter.

2. Now type D: then CD Windows\System32 to make changes to the computer with full system permission.

D:

CD Windows\System32

Enter Commands

Note: If the D: drive wasn’t the root directory then type fsutil fsinfo drives to list all the drives on the system then select another drive.

3. Here you have to change the utility manager to cmd by typing:

Ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.old

Copy cmd.exe utilman.exe

Shutdown -r -t 0

Reset Utilman.exe

When the commands finished, your computer will restart. While restarting, don’t boot Windows, let it start normally.

Reset User Password

4. When the windows started normally,  on the sign in page, click on the utility manager or press ( Windows 10 Logo Key + u )  to open Command Prompt (cmd). Here you can create a new admin user or change your user password, to reset your password and change it type:

Net user [username] *

Change User Password
Change User Password
Reset User Password

Your password has successfully reset, and now you can log in with your new password.

Notice: When the password reset finished, reserve them back because if you don’t then anyone can reset the admin password.

Now to reserve the changes, boot Windows using USB or DVD device then press Shift+F10 and type:

D:

Cd windows\system32

Ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.new

Ren utilman.exe.old utilman.exe

Shutdown -r -t 0

Reserve Changes

When the system restarted, check the utility manager and it will work.

That’s all if you have any question regarding this feel free to ask now.

A bonus tip: If you want to get easier and speedier login in every time, try adding a pin to your account despite your password. On the login page, you could log in with your pin or password.

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iOS

How to Reset Lost Passcode of iPhone or iPad?

Every iOS user may know or have experienced this because while using their phone sometimes they forget the passcode then don’t know what to do. As I have experienced it on my iPhone and found it to reset or bypass the passcode hardly. This is really hard to bear and no one wants to be in this situation but if you are in this situation then you’re in the right place. You might be thinking of the some questions, does resetting harm my device? No, resetting doesn’t harm your device, it just restore it to its factory settings. Can I get my files back again after resetting? Unluckily, you can’t get back your files because there’s no any other option to do, you can get your files back if you had already a backup of your phone then you can restore it. Can I backup my device after its locked with a passcode? Actually no, you can’t. The only way is to reset lost passcode of your device, so let’s reset lost passcode of your iPhone.

Reset Lost Passcode of iPhone, iPad or iPod

Step 1. connect the device to your computer through the cable then hold down home button with the power button for 10 or 20 seconds until the device restarts in recovery mode or iTunes logo appears then when the device gets into recovery mode, iTunes will be opened in your computer then click on Restore on the iTunes page.

Note: You need the latest version of iTunes if you have installed it in past then make sure you have updated it, if you don’t have iTunes or the iTunes latest version then click here to get it now.

Restore

Step 2. Now select Restore and update to confirm the restoring and updating device.

Restore & update

Step 3. Read all the important information guide carefully then click Agree.

Agree

After agreeing, iTunes will start downloading iPhone software, the downloading will take time depending on your connection and wait for the software download completes. You can unplug the device from the computer while downloading the software in iTunes but remember if the download failed due to slow connection or any other issue then you need to restart the downloading.

Note: You can’t restore your device until the software downloading doesn’t finish.

Software Downloading

step 4. After the downloading finished, your device will be restored automatically.

Notice: If your device doesn’t restored automatically then restart the device in recovery mode then go to iTunes in your computer then click on Restore>Restore and update and iTunes will start restoring your phone.

Resetting Device

Set up iPhone or iPad After Restoring

1. When the device restoring finished, the Hello page will appear on the screen then slide to set up the device.

2. Select a language

3. Select your country or region.

4. Now choose a WiFi network or connect to iTunes if your network is not available.

5. Enter the Apple ID which were used set up the iPad last time then click Next.

6. Click Enable Location services to allow Map, find my iPhone and other services.

7. Create a 4 digit passcode to protect your data from others then re-enter it again.

8. Now choose a backup method or set up as new iPhone.

By restoring, all your personal data and purchased content will appear on your device automatically.

9. To set up as a new iPhone sign in with your Apple ID to access all Apple services then click Next.

10. Read all the terms and conditions carefully then click Agree.

It may take few minutes to set up your device.

11. iCloud keychain keeps your credit card information secure on the devices you approve and they information in your keychain is encrypted and cannot read by Apple, to use this click Use iCloud Security Code or to disable it click Don’t Restore Passwords.

You can turn this on later from Settings if you want.

12. To help Apple improve its products and services automatically, click Send to Apple otherwise click Don’t Send.

To start using your device click Get Started.

Finally, your device has been successfully restored and setup completely.

If you have any question regarding this ask now.