When I worked for one of Germany’s biggest financial organizations back before I started blogging full time, I had to change my user account password on a regular basis. Even worse, they had set the password rules in a way that you could not just re-pick your old password. Heck, you could not even use [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Windows users with little computing experience enter a world of trouble if they forget their login password. They receive the error message “the user name or password is incorrect” and do not seem to have another option than to try again until the correct password has been entered. Microsoft for that reason added the option [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Windows XP offers a function that is hidden deep inside the user account menu. It is possible to create a so called password reset disk that can be used to reset the password of the account is has been created for. You simply pop in the disk if you have forgotten your password and use it to create a new one.

There is normally no way to store the components of the password reset disk on an usb device because Windows XP is unable to access it during logon. It is not a problem to store the files on an USB device but you will face troubles when trying to access it if you lost your password.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows