Tools Needed;

Windows 7 with password protected admin account
Kon Boot V2 - http://kon-boot.com/
Trinity Rescue Kit - http://trinityhome.org/

This Tutorial is aimed at people who have forgotten their password or have been locked out of their account by a family member or friend. (I do not condone illegal use )
The most common methods of accessing Windows 7 admin accounts are to remove the passwords or simply bypass them. There are many methods available to achieve this but each with varying degrees of difficulty. I will be showing you two methods which I use, I feel these methods are simple enough for novices, The simpler the better 

Using Kon Boot to bypass the password

First I will be showing you how to bypass the password and use the admin account. I find this useful if your family members or friends have set passwords on the admin accounts and you don’t want it to be too obvious you gained access. To do this I will be using Kon Boot V2 (The latest version of Kon Boot works with Windows 8 too).

The OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, however this will work with any Windows 7 OS. I have two user accounts set up to test with, one called Admin which is a password protected admin account, the other is called Standard and is a standard user with no password.


Once you have downloaded Kon Boot, create a Kon Boot CD or USB. Tutorials. Then insert the USB or CD to the PC/Laptop and reboot. If the USB/CD was set up correctly you should see “Kon Boot” after your BIOS splash screen. (If you don't make sure you boot from the CD/USB, check your boot/BIOS options).


Windows should then continue to boot normally, once booted click on the admin account and leave the password field blank. You should now be logged in as the admin user, from here you can install software or manage other accounts for example; changing your account to admin rather than a standard user. When you have finished whatever it was you wanted to achieve eject the CD or USB and reboot. The original password will be back on the admin account 


Using Trinity Rescue Kit to remove the Admin user password

Trinity Rescue Kit is a great tool. With this tool you can do many things (there’s a sum up of what can be done on their homepage). For this tutorial we are only interested in the “winpass” tool, this used to be harder to use than it is now but the TRK developers have been working hard over the years to make it as simple as possible, I personally love it  if you do to consider donating to let them know you appreciate their work.

This method is suited to users that have forgot their password or have had it changed by a family member or friend.

I will be using the same set up as in the Kon Boot section of this article. (Windows 7 Professional 64bit with two users, one Admin with a password and one standard user without a password).

There are two downloads that they offer, one is the self burning TRK (exe) and the other is theISO image which can be burned to disk using MagicISO.

Once you have your TRK CD insert it into the PC/Laptop, take note of the Admin accounts username (in this tutorial it's admin) and reboot. (Remember to check you are booting from CD)

At the TRK boot screen tap Enter to run TRK in the Default Mode


At the next screen select “windows password resetting”


Now select “winpass with prompt for username first”


Now enter the Admins username (in this case Admin) and press enter


TRK will now list the available Windows partitions, Select the current Windows partition (where windows is installed) and press enter


You should now see all the users that are associated with the Windows 7 OS. Enter the number of your choice, for this tutorial we are removing the password so the option we want is 1.


Now press any key then select “go back to the main menu” then choose “reboot without ejecting CD/USB” and eject the CD when the computer has shutdown, once it has rebooted you should be able to click on the admin user and log in without being prompted for a password.

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I downloaded the tools - there great!  I cannot wait to get started.

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