I thought that to fix a windows computer if you've forgotten a password, you needed to like recover the sam file (using like a recovery disk) and crack the password hashes using a program, some complicated process! It turns out that it is actually very simple to just clear the password on the passworded account using a boot disk, without harming anything, using the offline nt password editor - http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
you burn the boot disk image to a cd using nero or some other program, and the boot disk automatically detects hard drive partitions with windows installed, and the accounts on the computer, and erases the password on the given accounts. It has lots of automatic and default options and is absolutely easy to use, you just literally hit enter a couple times and it will erase the password for you to login to an admin account. too easy
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