Forgotten Windows or Administrator Passwords No Longer an Issue

By: Nick Iverson Click author's name for more of his/her articles

Ordinary computer users and corporate customers frequently discover themselves locked out of their computer due to a lost or forgotten Windows password. If you forgot your Windows password, you are locked out of your system. But what if you forgot an Administrator password altogether? Then you are in trouble!
Fortunately, you are not left without options. Forgotten Windows passwords are no longer an issue if you use Elcomsoft System Recovery by http://www.elcomsoft.com/esr.html. The unique password recovery tool will let you boot from a CD or a flash drive and recover forgotten passwords in a matter of seconds. Forgot Administrator password? No problem! Elcomsoft System Recovery can either replace the forgotten Administrator password with another one, or give administrative status to any user account, effectively turning any user into a system administrator.

Forgot Windows Vista password? The latest release of Elcomsoft System Recovery supports forgotten Vista passwords as well as passwords protecting user and Administrator accounts in Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Windows 2008 Server.

With Elcomsoft System Recovery, you'll never be locked out of your PC again. The system recovery tool will not ask you to log in to a PC you lost access to in order to restore access. Instead, simply put a bootable CD-ROM into a CD/DVD drive and reboot your computer. You'll boot into familiar Windows environment complete with driver support, applications and mouse driven user interface and all the usual features of Microsoft Windows. If you don't have a CD or DVD drive, you can easily create a bootable USB thumb drive in just moments.

Lost or forgotten Windows passwords can become a problem if you used the file and folder encryption feature on NTFS drives. If this is the case, just replacing a forgotten Windows password with another one won't be of much help as you'll lose access to protected files and folders. In such circumstances, forgotten Windows passwords must be recovered in their original plain-text form. In order to recover the original forgotten Windows or Administrator passwords, Elcomsoft System Recovery can either try to find forgotten Windows passwords or, if this is not possible to do quickly, saves Windows registry files (SAM and SYSTEM) or password hashes for advanced offline analysis with other tools. Accelerated password recovery is possible with Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, one of the most advanced tools to recover forgotten Windows passwords.

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery makes use of all computational resources of your PC and the entire network, including graphical accelerators built into latest NVIDIA and ATI video cards.

To read more about Elcomsoft System Recovery or order a copy, visit http://www.elcomsoft.com/esr.html

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