I Forgot My Windows Vista Password, What Can I Do?

“I forgot my Windows vista password, what can i do to get access in my computer again?”

If you forgot your password in Windows Vista, you will not be able to log in and access your files. But there are several methods on how to reset your old password and give your Windows account a new password in Windows Vista. We reveal how to do it in this article.

Method 1. “I Forgot My Windows Vista Password?” Reset with Program

When you search for such Windows password recovery programs over the web, you will come across many of them. It is suggested that you should opt for a program that will support all editions of Windows and reset Windows Vista password without any data loss. Take these factors into consideration, we high recommend Windows Password Key (Windows Password Genius) which is an all-in-one Windows password recovery tool you can use to fix “forgotten Windows Vista password”.

Step 1. Download Windows Password Key and install it to any Windows computer (Not the locked one). The program can be installed in Windows vista, xp, 7, 8 and 10.

Step 2. Launch Windows Password Key and plug in a writable USB drive or CD/DVD, then click “Begin Burning” button to burn Windows Password Key program to this USB drive or CD/DVD.

Step 3. After burning successfully, set your locked Windows Vista computer to boot from the newly created password reset disk (USB drive or CD/DVD).

Also Read: How to Boot From a USB Device or CD on Laptop or Desktop Computer

Step 4. When Windows Password Key runs on your locked Windows Vista computer, all you need to do is to select the user account and Windows system you forgot password, then click on the “Reset Password” button.

Step 5. Click on “Reboot” button and eject the USB drive or CD/DVD, now your computer will restart and you can login Windows Vista with an empty password.

With the help of Windows Password Key, “I forgot my Windows vista password” is no longer a problem.

Method 2. “I Forgot My Windows Vista Password?” Reset with Ubuntu

In order to solve “I forgot my Windows vista password” and set a new password with Ubuntu, you must have a USB stick with Ubuntu Linux operating system (otherwise, use the method 1) and prepare the following:

1. Boot your Windows Vista computer from the USB stick. You may need to change the boot order of your PC.
2. When starting Ubuntu select the language and click on the button Try Ubuntu. Windows Vista remains untouched.
3. Opens the Ubuntu Explorer on the left side of the taskbar.
4. Look for your Windows hard drive on the left in the navigation – it’s probably called disk and navigates to the folder: / Windows / System32
5. Find the file Utilman.exe and select it. Press the key combination Windows + C and then Windows + V. This creates a copy of the original file.
6. Now delete the file Utilman.exe with the delete key (The original file of Utilman.exe is saved as a copy).
7. Find the file cmd.exe. Also make a copy of it with Windows + C and Windows + V.
8. Now select the file cmd.exe and rename it to: Utilman.exe (The original file of cmd.exe is saved in the created copy).
9. Quit Ubuntu and start Windows Vista again.

After completing the above preparations, you can now reset your password that you no longer know and create a new one to fix the problem of “I forgot my Windows vista password”:

If you’re in the Windows Vista login screen, click the small blue accessibility icon in the bottom left corner. However, our changes to Ubuntu now open the command prompt.

Type the command: net user “BENUTERNAME” NEW PASSWORD
Example: For our user account Lilly we want to set a password for the password. The command is called in this case: net user “Lilly” tester

Close the command prompt and type in the Password field the password you have just given for your username.

Windows Vista starts and logs in.

Now you can undo the changes and the file names:

• Navigate to the folder System32 and delete the file cmd.exe.
• Rename the file Utilman (copy) .exe to cmd.exe.
• Finally, rename the file cmd (copy) .exe to Utilman.exe.

Note: You should use this method only if you have a USB stick with Ubuntu Linux operating system, otherwise we recommend to try method 1 which is much easier and safer to reset forgotten password in Windows Vista.