How to recovery the administrator password in windows vista

Whaooo, I am happy today. I was able to recover a windows vista admin password.

My customer brought a laptop Gateway with windows vista- The administrator account was disabled and the only user admin account "bert" has a strong password. So, I called bert to ask for the password. But bert couldn't remember his password-

So, I have in front of me a windows vista laptop with no way to access it.


Here is what I did to recover the lost password.

1 - download trinity Rescue kit iso file.

2- burn the iso file using ISO RECORDER V3

3- boot the computer from the new trinity CD.

4- choose the default setting (the first one)

5- at the prompt,type winpass -u bert

6- choose option 1 for clear password

7- remove the cd

8- reboot the computer

and voila! bert user has a blank password and I have 100% access to the system


Thanks a lot to the techs a trinity rescue. I am going to send them a paypal donation today. They made my job easy.