How To Reset Administrator Password In Windows 7

In this tutorial we will reset the administrator account password in window 7.

With this method you can reset any users password in window 7.

Window have a inbuilt utility Utilman.exe for disabled people.

Utilman.exe allow users to configure the accessibility options like Magnifier,

High contrast theme, Narrator and On Screen Keyboard before they log onto the system.

This utility was designed for disabled people who are hard of sight,

hearing or mobility to log onto Windows themselves without the need of outside help.

You can run this utility by pressing Window Key + U on window login screen.

Or you can click on Ease of Access icon.

This will load Utilman.exe application from Windows\System32\directory.

Furthermore this application run under the system account which have the

highest level of privilege.

You can take advantage of this utility to reset the user accounts password.

You need to replace the Utilman.exe file with cmd.exe file and you will

have access to the command prompt running under the SYSTEM privileges.

From command prompt you can easily reset the user password.

Our primary goal is to replace the Utilman.exe with cmd.exe.

You can achieve this goal by several methods like boot system with

Live disk and replace the file, boot system with recovery disk and replace

the file.

In this tutorial we assume that you do not have any bootable disk or live CD.

We will do this without any third party software or disk.

Step 1 :

                                   To do this turn off the system without properly shutdown.

Repeat this until you get Windows Error Recovery message on start up.

Select Launch Startup Repair (recommended) and press Enter Key

Window will load necessary files for recovery.

Step 2 :

Window will automatically try to fix the problems.

This process usually take long time so stay cool,

you need to do nothing here.

Step 3 :

After a long wait [ around five to ten minutes ] you

will receive following message.

Click view problem details

Step 4 :

It will open problem details in message box. Scroll

the message to bottom, at the end of message it

contain hyperlinked privacy statement, click it.

Step 5 :

Privacy statement will appear in notepad, Click

Open option from File menu item

Step 6 :

Click Computer to show all drive

Note :

                   You have to check each drive for Window. Drive

                                letter showing here will be different from the drive

letter you see in My computer while system

                        normally boot. Open each drive and find out the

                                           partition which contain the windows installation files.

Step 7 :

Open Windows Folder

Step 8 :

Open System32 Folder

Step 9 :

Change file type to all

Step 10 :

Select Utilman file and do Right click and click

Copy

Paste the copied file

Step 11 :

Select the copied file and do right click and click

Rename

We will change it with some descriptive name

We have taken the backup of original file. Now

delete the original file. Select the Utilman file and

do right click and click Delete.

Step 12 :

Copy CMD

Then Paste the Copied File.

Rename It With Utilman

Then Delete The cmd File

Step 13 :

That's all we need to do here. Close the dialog box,

close the file, and close the Startup repair box and

Click finish

Step 14 :

System will be shutdown. Turn on the system again, 

          let the window boot normally this time on login screen 

click Ease of Access icon. We have replaced Utilman.exe 

         with cmd.exe so it will launch command prompt instead

of accessibility options dialog box.

Step 15 :

Type Following Command And Press Enter

Type the new password / Retype the password to 

confirm it.

         Be aware you will not see any asterisks 

[*] sign here when you

                     type in your password.

Step 16 :

Close the command prompt and use the new

password to sing in

Wow we have successfully changed the users

password now it's time to revert the change which

we have made during the process. Open My

Computer and open the window partition

Open System32 folder and select the replaced

Utilman file

Do right click and click Delete option

Select the Utilman-org file and do Right click

and rename Utilman-org to Utilman

Step 17 :

We have restored original window utility. To confirm

it restart the system and click Ease of Access icon,

this time it would launch original Utilman.exe

Congratulations you have successfully reset the

users password without harming any window files or

using any third party tools.

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