Reset your password with Hirens Boot CD

Prior to explaining the solution download "Hiren Boot CD" from below official link.

http://www.hiren.info

Steps:
 * 1) Insert Bootable CD / USB pendrive with Hiren's Boot CD on it and boot computer with bootable CD/USB.
 * 2) After booting from CD you will get Hiren's Boot CD Home page.
 * 3) Choose "offline NT/2000/xp/vista/7 Password changer".
 * 4) Now it will asking for input " Boot : " just press Enter.
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 * 1) It will start loading file systems and show available HDD and all partitions, Select BOOT Partition. In my case the boot partition was 1 as seen in the below image. After selecting the partition number press enter.
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 * 1) Now it will take a minute to get information from HDD and ask for your input about windows system32/config directory. Generally by default the boot partition has this path otherwise you need to mention it hear. If you are running a default configuration simply press Enter.
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 * 1) Now the application will will ask for user input.
 * 1 - Password reset [sam system security]
 * 2 - Recovery System Console parameters [software]
 * q - quit
 * Select 1 for password reset and press enter.
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 * 1) You will now be prompted with password reset or registry editing.
 * Select "1" to edit user data and passwords then press enter.
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 * 1) Now it will show the users available in the system, select the particular user which you want to reset the password of. In my case I use the user "Administrator".
 * Note : if you want to reset the built in administrator account password then just press enter otherwise type the respective username.
 * In Windows 7, Administrator account has been disabled by default, in that case you need to enable the user account first and then reset the password.
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 * 1) Select "Clear {blank} user password" option to clear the password.
 * Select "1" and press Enter.
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 * 1) You will then be shown the "Password cleared!" message.
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 * 1) This is very important step in this exercise. The password is cleared but not saved yet. To save the changes you have made press " !" and then enter.
 * Many people clear the password and restart computer and not get the result they were after because they forgot to save the changes to the registry.
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 * 1) Now Press "q" and then enter to save and exit.
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 * 1) Now SAM has been changed and status should be OK as seen in below image. Now it will ask for user input to write SAM File, Press "y".
 * Press "n" to exit.
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 * 1) You can now remove the CD/USB drive from the computer and press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
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Start the computer normally and enjoy your access once again.

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