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How to Reset Password in Windows 8 without Disk if I Locked out of My Computer

Even without a password reset disk, you still can create a password reset disk on another computer and reset windows 8 password when you are locked out of your windows 8 computer.

 

Reset password in windows 8 without reset disk but with third party disk.

If you want to save your time and get into your computer quickly, I recommend you use Spower Password Reset Tool solve the problem. Spower Password Reset Tool work fine with all version of Windows and it is easy to use. See the guide below:

Guide to reset Windows 8 password with Spower password tool

1. Get Spower Windows 8 password reset Tool and install it to another accessible computer. Tips: You need another computer to install Spower software and create a bootable password reset disk. You can install it on Windows xp/vista/win7/win8/2003/2008/2012 system.

 

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2. Create a Spower password boot disk. With Spower software, you can create a USB password disk or CD/DVD password disk. Insert USB flash drive or blank CD/DVD, and follow the wizard to create a disk.

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3. Set the Windows 8 computer or laptop to boot from Spower password boot disk. For step by step guide, see How to set computer to boot from USB drive or How to set computer to boot from CD/DVD-ROM.

4. Plug in Spower password boot disk to the locked computer, and restart it to boot from the bootable password reset disk.

5. When Spower password reset software starts (screenshot as below), follow the instructions below to reset password in windows 8.

Windows 8  password reset without disk

5.1 (Step 1): Select a windows 8 system from list. If you have only one system on the computer, ignore this step.

5.2 (Step 2): Click the user name to select the user you want to reset its password.

5.3 (Step 3): Click "Reset" to set a blank password to the selected user.

5.4 (Step 4): Click "Reboot" to restart the locked computer. Remove Spower password boot disk when the program prompt you do that.

Tips: You can use keyboard to operate the Spower software if the mouse doesn't work on your computer. See the hot key below:

  • CTRL + s ------------------------- Select a system
  • CTRL + u ------------------------- Select a user
  • CTRL + a ------------------------- Add a new user
  • CTRL + d ------------------------- Deleted the selected user
  • CTRL + r ------------------------- Reset password
  • CTRL + q ------------------------- Restart computer

Other tips for your to reset windows 8 password or get into your computer.

1. Try to login to windows 8 computer with another administrator account and reset the forgotten password.

2. Create a Windows 7 PE disk, and use it to get into your computer and backup your data.

 


 

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