Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' title='Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' />Reset Windows XP, Vista, 7 Password Using USB Drive or CDA lot of methods are available to recover or reset the Windows password. The famous Ophcrack is used for recovering the password. QtmSj.png' alt='Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' title='Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' />Even i have posted about using Ophcrack. But the problem is that its bulky in size. We need to download a file of size 5. MB to recover the password. So I thought why to recover a lost password, instead why cant we simply reset or delete the password using a 3 MB file open source program. That is what this post is about. I have not found any other method simpler than this one, it resets your password in the blink of an eye. Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' title='Windows Vista Cmd Commands List' />Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use. The method uses an open source program called Offline NT Password Registry Editor. We can use a USB Disk Drive Pen Drive or burn a bootable CD for this method. Follow the Steps below Step 1 Download the cd. It contains an ISO file. Size 3. 1. 5 MBhttp pogostick. PowerShell v2. 0 was completed and released to manufacturing in August 2009, as an integral part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Versions of PowerShell for. Updated Working Link 1. Step 2 Burn the ISO file to a CD. If you are using a USB drive, then mount the cd. Open the Virtual Drive and Copy all the contents to your USB disk. If any error comes while copying just skip the file. Now to make the USB Drive Bootable open a Command PromptPress Start R, Type cmd and enter and type the following commands Sl. No. Command Action 1j Enter. Enter. Here j is my drive letter, you should enter your own drive letter. Step 3 Now start the System which you want to reset the password by putting the CD or the USB in the Computer. While start up you have to make sure that it boots up from the correct device i. CD or the USB. In order to do this go to your BIOS settings and change the boot order as CD or the USB drive as the first option. Or if you know the Boot menu key then press it and Boot from the correct device. Note Step 4 to Step 8 takes a very less amount of time. No need to worry Step 4 After booting from the CD or the USB, press enter to continue the boot process. In the first step it will automatically select the disk where your windows is installed. Simply press enter to continue. In the Second Step it Will select the path and registry files. Select 1 for password reset It will select 1 by default, just enter. Step 5 Now after selecting the paths, It will ask What to do Simply press enter as it will automatically select 1 for Edit User Password. Step 6 It will show a list your system usernames and their password status. Now enter the username whose password you want to reset. It is case sensitive so, be careful and type what you see in the users list. If the user is Administrator just press enter as it has already selected Administrator by default otherwise enter the correct usernameStep 7 It will show you User Edit Menu. Select 1 to clear the user password. Step 8 It will clear the password. Now Enter to quit from the User select menu. It will again ask What to do. Now in step four it will ask you to write the files or not. Enter y to write the files. It will write the files back. Now Simply press enter when it asks for New run as it has selected no by default. The password reset has been successfully completed. Press the power button. Now start the computer and you will find that it is not asking for password for the user you had selected. Thats it, you are done. Important 1. This method will remove your password not recover. If you do not want to reset the password, you can recover it. Visit http techrena. The method has been tested for windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and all resulted in success. This is for information purposes only. We are not responsible for any damages or illegal acts resulting from this information. The information provided here should be used for legal purposes only. How To Update Windows Live. USB Disk method will not work if your motherboard or BIOS does not support USB booting. Featured Post Download the newly released Windows 8 Pro 3. Windows ProgrammingProgramming CMD Wikibooks, open books for an open world. In Windows NT XP, Vista, 7, 8, 1. Command Prompt cmd. They can be used to automate file system tasks such as backups or basic installations and can be used with other command line utilities as well. The batch files can be considered to be a simple scripting language with logic and jumps. The advantages of using batch files are the ease of writing them, the ability to edit the files without compiling anything, their cross compatibility across Windows NT Operating Systems and their inherent ability to manipulate file systems due to their basis on MS DOS. Batch file scripts are not case sensitive, although strings and data are. The file is controlled by a list of commands separated into lines which are run like normal commands would be at the Command Prompt, although some functionality is different. Batch files can be run from Windows Explorer but the console used to display them closes automatically at the end of the batch file, so a command at the end that prevents instantaneous exit is needed for any remaining output to be read before the console window closes. Although the batch files are able to manipulate their environment, such as color settings and environment variables, the changes are all temporary, as in a standard Command Prompt session. Color settings, however, are retained on later editions of Windows NT. In order to try to learn about batch files, it is useful to understand Command Prompt commands. See Guide to Windows commands. Batch FileeditThe script is kept inside a batch file, with the extension. Although. bat is more recognisable, as it was used in the MS DOS environment that preceded the Command Prompt, the Command Prompts interpretations of batch files is very different to the manner of interpreting DOS batch files, and. Command Prompt, so using the. Execution starts at the top of the file and ends at the end. When the end of the file is reached, the file exits to the Command Prompt if it was invoked from there, or the console window closes if it was invoked from Windows Explorer or the START command. ECHO CommandeditTypically, batch files start with the echo off command, which stops the input and prompt from being displayed during execution, so only the command output is displayed. The symbol prevents a command from having input and its prompt displayed, so it is used on the echo off command to prevent that first command from displaying the input and prompt. In order to print lines, the ECHO command is used again, but this time with a text parameter other than off. ECHO. Hello World The period. ON or OFF rather than turn input and prompt displaying on and off. The last line in a code should then be. Echo on will turn the inputprompt display back on, just in case the program exits to the Command Prompt where without the command echo on, there will be no visible prompt left for use. HINT Starting with Windows XP, the ECHO ON command is optional. The command interpreter automatically enables it after the BAT file terminates. Hello World ExampleeditUsing the code above, we can make a hello world program like so. ECHO Hello WorldIn batch files there are two ways of writing comments. Firstly there is the form. REM Comment here. This form is included as it was in the MS DOS batch file script. The other form is this. Comment here. This form is generally favoured, for being faster to execute and write, and also for being easy to differentiate from normal commands. For this type of comment only two double colons are needed and the comment ends at the end of the line. Batch files have no multi line comment types. You can also add a comment to the end of the command. Comment here. VariableseditWe access variables with the SET command. SET lets us set the value for a variable, and delete a variable. The variables used are environment variables, which are set up to correspond to the systems environment variables, although they are not the actual environment variables of the system and changing them will not change system environment variables. For example. SET nameJohn Smith. This command creates an environment variable called name, and sets its value to the string John Smith. The first space is ignored as the value entered records from the first non whitespace character encountered after the sign. Set also allows the storing of integers specifically, using the A parameter. SET A number3. 8. This command creates an environment variable named number with the integer value 3. This number can be involved in arithmetic and numerical logic, but without the A parameter all that is stored are the characters 3 and 8, which cant be used as numbers. Variables are accessed by surrounding the name with s. This substitutes the value straight into a command, and does not point to the variable. For example. SET nameJohn Smith. This file would return the text John Smith. A string number can be converted to an integer number in a similar fashion. SET A numnum. This code creates a string called num, then overwrites it with an integer with the numerical value represented by the string contents of num, in this case 3. The set command can also be used for input. SET P varEnter a value for var. This command displays Enter a value for var and when the user enters the data, var is given that value. Be aware, if the user presses enter without entering anything then the value in var is unchanged, so for the sake of a prompt it is often best to give a default value, or clear the value for the variable first if it has been used before. SET P varEnter a value for var. Below is an example. SET P answer Enter name of file to delete. DEL P answer. This batch file gets the name of a file to delete and then uses the DEL command with the prompt parameter P to ask the user if theyre sure they want to delete the file. Flow ControleditConditionalseditThe IF command can be used to create program logic in batch files. The IF command allows three basic checks, on the ERRORLEVEL, the equality of two strings, and the existence of a file or folder. The first check on the ERRORLEVEL will check to see if it is greater than or equal to a certain number. IF ERRORLEVEL 5 ECHO. The ERRORLEVEL is at least 5. For this style the first parameter is always ERRORLEVEL, and the second is the value it checks against. In this case, if the ERRORLEVEL is at least 5 then the command at the end of the line is executed, outputting the message The ERRORLEVEL is at least 5. The second form is a check between two strings. IF str. 1Hello. ECHO. The strings are equal. Here the first parameter is two strings either side of the double, symbolising a check to see if they are equal. If the variable str. Hello., a check which is case sensitive, then The strings are equal. In the case that you wish to make the check case insensitive you would rewrite it as following. IF I str. 1Hello. ECHO. The strings are equal. Now, for example, str. HELLO. but the check would still result in the command being executed at the end as the check is now case insensitive. The final basic IF type is the existence check, to see if a file or folder exists. IF EXIST myfile. txt TYPE myfile. Here if the file myfile. TYPE myfile. txt is executed which displays the contents of myfile.