you will need your Acer recovery disk
insert into CDROM tray
Restart the Acer Aspire. When Windows boots up, select the username you want to reset the password for and press "Enter."
Step 1: Enter Safe Mode
a)
Start or re-start your computer.
b)
Before the Windows 7 loading screen appears, Press 'F8? to enter
Advanced Boot Options.
c)
Use arrows to choose 'Safe Mode' when you can see the Advanced Boot
Options screen.
d)
Press 'Enter' and wait for Windows 7 files to load.
e)
Log on with an administrator account when you can see the log on screen
Note: Well, when you are presented with the
Advanced Boot Options screen, there are 3 types of Safe Mode. They are the Safe
Mode, Safe Mode with Networking and Safe Mode with Command Prompt, and the 3
options are all available for you. Here above we take Safe Mode as an example,
but if you choose Safe Mode with Command Prompt, you'll need to input related
to command prompt to reset the password.
Step 2: Reset the forgotten Windows login
password in Windows 7
Now you could diagnose and solve some serious
computer problems in the safe mode and reset the forgotten Windows login
password in Windows 7 as follows:
1.
Click 'Start' button, input 'lusrmgr.msc' into the Search box and press
'Enter'.
2.
In the 'Local Users and Groups screen', click 'Users'.
3.
Right-click the account that you need to reset the password for, and
then click 'Set Password'.
4.
Type and confirm the new password, click 'OK'. (You can go to 'Local
Users and Groups' screen by right-clicking 'Computer' to select 'Manage' on
desktop.)
Step 3: Log on your password protected PC again with the new password since you have successfully performed Windows password reset for Windows 7.
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