Once launched, the program’s quite easy to work with, as you can see: I decided to burn my recover image to a USB flash drive. To burn the ISO onto an external CDROM, DVD or, easiest, USB flash drive, you’ll need a second program called ISO2Disc which is a free download from Top-Password, makers of PCUnlocker:Įasy enough to download. Once you’ve grabbed that, you’ll have it and some rudimentary instructions sitting on your PC (you can safely use a different PC or the same PC with the locked account, just logged in to a different account): It’s what’s known as an ISO disk image file. The first step is to download the install disk image. The basic idea is that you need to create a bootable device or disk with the PCUnlocker software on it, then it can burrow into your standard Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 system OS and make the change or changes required. In neither case can it change the master online password, but that doesn’t sound like an issue in your situation. The difference being whether the local computer password is synchronized with a master Windows online password or not: If it is, bypassing the login works once, then Windows resets the account password to the online password, while resetting decouples the local PC account from the online password entirely. With PCUnlocker, you can either “reset” a password or “bypass” a login password. It’s not free, but it’s quite reasonably priced for a specialized program of this nature: $19.99 for the basic utility. Your situation sounds familiar too: You buy or inherit a computer and rather than reformatting it and installing apps and customizations from scratch, want to just log in and clean up unwanted files and programs. To show you how to do that, I’m going to demonstrate a program called PCUnlocker. Certainly some people do legitimately forget their passwords, and if an employee leaves a company there needs to be a way to reset that computer. On the other hand, though, there are definitely situations where it’s reasonable and necessary to be able to log in to an account without the required PIN, fingerprint or password. For what I hope are obvious reasons, there are situations where knowing how to bypass a Microsoft Windows account password or general login security is problematic.

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