Are you a bit forgetful and keep forgetting things once in a while? Then you might be facing lots of trouble with your passwords. What if someday you forget your Windows password especially when it is pretty urgent to open up your computer? Sounds quite dreadful, isn’t it?

But there’s nothing to worry if you know how to login back right into your computer in some other way. And fortunately, there are several ways to reset the password for your Windows 7 or Vista. If you take a ride through the internet you’ll come across many of them but the thing is most of them are quite lengthy and complicated.

So, here we have got you one of the easiest possible methods and the only thing you’ll be required is either an installation disc or a USB for your Windows in order to reset your password.  This particular method simply works on the basis of a kind of unpatched bug found in Windows operating system.

So, check out this simple guide to reset your Windows Password.

Step 1. Insert your Windows 7 disk into the CD Rom of your system and simply Restart it.

Step 2. Now simply press any key this will Boot from your disc after this click on Repair your Computer option.

Step 3. Now you’ll get various options out of which you’ll have to select Command Prompt.

Step 4. The action in the last step will open the Command Prompt. Now simply create a backup of Sticky keys for this you’ll have to type the command give below in the Command Prompt.

copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\

Step 5. After this you’ll only have to replace the Sticky keys with Command Prompt and for this you’ll just have to type the command given below.

copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

Step 6. After typing the command, Restart your computer.

Step 7. The moment you get the Windows login screen on the computer, you just have to hit the Shift key continuously for 5 times and this opens the Administrative Mode of Command Prompt.

Step 8.Once it gets open, you only need to type the below command in order to Reset the password.

Net user username MyNewPassword


Where “username” will have the username of your computer and MyNewPassword will be the password. You can replace both of these according your requirement.

Step 9. Now you can happily login into your computer using your new Username and Password.

Also note that now whenever you’ll press the Shift key for 5 times, it will open the Command Prompt in place of Sticky keys.  And if you want the Stick keys back, you’ll only have to repeat the first three steps and type the command given below in the Command Prompt window.

copy c:\sethc.exe  c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe.