How to factory reset windows 7 home premium without password

“I have an old computer works with Windows 7 Home Premium, I want to transfer all my personal data from it to a new Windows 10 computer but I have forgotten the admin password. How to reset my Windows 7 Home Premium admin password without reset disk?”

If you are searching for a fast and safe way to reset forgotten Windows 7 Home Premium admin password, this article will help you a lot. It gives you several workable ways to quickly reset Windows 7 Home Premium password without reset disk. All your personal data and settings will be fine after unlocking your computer.

Tip 1: Reset Windows 7 Home Premium Password in Safe Mode.

When you installed Windows 7 Home Premium on your computer, a super administrator account would be created with blank password in your computer and was disabled by default. So it is not displayed on the welcome screen. Fortunately, you can log on the super administrator in Safe Mode. So just to boot your Windows 7 Home Premium from Safe Mode and then log on the administrator account to reset your lost admin password in control panel as easy as count 1, 2, 3….

1. Start your Windows 7 Home Premium and press F8 as soon as possible to open “Advanced boot options”. Hit up/down key to high-light Safe Mode and hit Enter to select it.

2. Once Windows 7 welcome screen appears, click Administrator to log on without password.

3. Great! Now click “Start” and select Control Panel, upon open it.

4. Go to “User Accounts” – “Manage another user account”, click on your admin account which you want to reset its password, and then click “Change the password”.

5. Choose a new password and confirm it, and then click “Change password”.

6. Now restart your computer and log on your admin account with the new password.

Tip 2: Reset Windows 7 Home Premium Administrator or User Password with A Powerful Password Recovery Tool. (It works for any Windows system and is 100% working)

If you forgot Windows 7 Home Premium password and have no reset disk or any available administrator account, you can use Windows Password Rescuer to quickly reset your forgotten password with USB flash drive. It is one of the best Windows password recovery tools which not only can reset password for Windows 7 Home Premium, but also all other Windows 7 editions and Windows 10, 8.1, 8, Vista XP, server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003 etc. Now go through the step-by-step guide to reset Windows 7 Home Premium administrator password in 3 minutes.

1. Install Windows Password Rescuer full version on another computer, and then run the software to create a password recovery disk. Plug in a blank USB pen drive and choose “USB Device” option.

2. Select your USB drive from list and then click “Begin Burning”.

3. The process will be completed fast. Once it completes, unplug the USB.

4. Now plug the USB flash drive to your locked computer and boot your computer from USB by changing devices boot order in BIOS Setup. Or just to start your computer and then press "F12" to directly open “Boot Options Menu”, select "USB HDD" and press Enter to continue boot.

5. For a moment, Windows Password Rescuer will run under Win PE and show you a friendly interface.

6. Now you can reset Windows 7 Home Premium administrator or any other user account’s password with several clicks. Click “Windows 7 system”.

7. Click “Administrator”.

8. Click “Reset Password”, when a confirm message pops up, click “Yes”.

9. Windows 7 Home Premium administrator has been removed and shown “blank”.

10. Click “Reboot”, when a confirm message comes out, unplug your USB first and then click “Yes” to restart your computer.

11. When Windows 7 welcome screen appears, click administrator to login without password.

12. Create a new password to protect your admin account if you need.

Tip 3: Reset Windows 7 Home Premium Admin Password by Using A Free Password Remover.

You also can use a free password remover tool, Offline NT Password Editor, to bypass your Windows 7 Home Premium admin password without data loss. This is a useful tool for advanced users to reset Windows 7, Vista, XP password, but it is a little hard to use. And you must be careful that all operations are working with command line. Now let’s go through the steps to reset a forgotten Windows 7 Home Premium password.

Firstly, you need to create a boot CD with Offline NT Password Editor. Just to free download Offline NT Password ISO Image and a FreeISOBurner, and then use the Burner to burn the Offline NT ISO image to a writable CD. Once it completes, follow the steps bellow to reset Windows 7 Home Premium password.

1. Insert the CD to your locked computer, restart the computer and then wait for the machine to boot from CD. You will be asked to press a key to proceed.

2. Once the first step comes out, type “1” and hit Enter to select your Windows partition.

3. Type “1” and hit Enter to load SAM registry.

4. Type “1” and hit Enter to select “Edit user data and passwords”.

5. All user accounts of Windows 7 Home Premium will be shown in list, type “Administrator” to select the user account which you want to reset its password.(You also can choose another user account)

6. Type “1” and hit Enter to clear the administrator’s password.

7. Password cleared, Now type “!” and hit Enter.

8. Type “q” and hit Enter.

9. Type “y” and hit Enter to save changes in SAM file.

10. Type “n” and hit Enter to exit the system.

11. Now remove your CD and press “CTRL+ALT+DEL” keys to restart your computer.

12. After restarting, you can log on Windows 7 Home Premium without password. Please create a new password which you can remember to protect your user account.

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