For convenience, we often create an easy-to-remember and uncomplicated password for the PC like birthday date, which makes great possible to recover Windows 7 password by guessing. So, how to prevent from your Windows password being hacked?

Following is the tip and trick that tells you to hold back hackers’ access into your laptop with the guessing password.

Regarding your worries that someone tries to reset Windows password by guessing it, you can simply in case of this by enabling Account lockout in Windows 7.

Step 1. Open Local Security Policy windows by inputting open local security policy in the Start search box and hitting Enter.

Step 2. Double-click Account Policies on the left and select Account Lockout Policy

Step 3. Right-click the Account lockout threshold Policy and select Properties.

Step 4. Set the number of login attempts that you want Windows to allow before it locks the account when the properties window comes up, and then click OK to save settings.

Step 5. Windows will prompt you to set suggestedSettings for Account lockout duration and the length of time to Reset account lockout counter.

Your Windows 7 user account will lock after the set number of failed login attempts. With the settings in this case, you account will be locked for 30 minutes if the password is entered incorrectly 5 times in a row. The Account Lockout Threshold is a security setting that determines the number of failed login attempts before that account is locked out.

But sometimes you may still feel worried as your password is too “strong” that you would easily forgot Windows password by accident. Therefore, you have to find way to hack Windows 7 password. If you have the similar troubles, you can take the following tip for reference.

Recover Windows 7 password with 3 Password Recovery Toolkits

Although there are many options that can hack Windows 7 password, in my opinion, the best and effective is to get a Windows password crack, like Windows Password Unlocker. Why? Looking upon the questions about Windows 7 password hack I meet, few askers can access the computer with another administrator account or create a password reset disk in advance to in case of a forgotten Windows password.

Windows Password Unlocker and other crackers allow you to crack Windows 7 password by burning a password recovery disk with a CD/DVD or USB flash drive in a few minutes, no matter the length and complexity of the lost password. Never requires previous password and special compute skill: Never needs to reinstall computer and no data lose after Windows 7 password hacks.

Only 4 simple steps as follows.

Step 1. Download Windows Password Unlocker Professional from any available computer and install it.

Step 2. Burn a password recovery disk with USB flash drive

Insert your USB flash drive in the computer and run the application. Next what you need to do is to burn a password recovery disk with the USB flash drive via the application.

Step 3. Set your locked PC to boot from USB

When the password recovery USB disk is burned, you should plug it in your locked computer. Boot your computer and set USB as the 1st boot device.

Step 4. Hack the forgotten Windows 7 password

The interface of Windows Password Unlocker Professional will appear when you boot from USB. And you’ll find all Windows 7user names of your accounts will be displayed with the passwords showing unknown or empty. Now you can select the target Windows 7 account and start to hack its password within a few seconds.

Ok, now you have sucessfully finished to reset Windows 7 password with this special utility.

After the tips and trick s listed above, are you still afraid of your Windows 7 password being hacked or can not access into the comp if forgot Windows 7 password?

Today the problem concerning forgetting Windows password is on the rise. But luckily, to reset a lost Windows password is not as difficult as people think, even the lost Windows password users master few computer skills. Here will discuss what to do if you forgot Windows 8 password or other popular Windows 7/XP/Vista password.

Forgot Windows XP Password
When it comes to reset forgotten Windows XP password, the most used method is to use its built-in administrator account, which is enabled and not password-protected by default. If you belong to those who stick to Windows XP, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del twice on the logon screen to pop up the classic Windows logon screen. Then enter administrator in the username box and leave the password box blank, press Enter to get back in computer. Of course, this method is available provided that you never add a password to built-in administrator.

Besides, you can use the built-in tools in Windows XP to create a password reset disk before the password is forgotten. If you forget to do it, third-party software like Windows Password Unlocker will prove to be helpful, which can help you create a bootable password reset CD/DVD or USB flash drive to reset lost Windows XP password to blank.

Forgot Windows Vista/7 Password
Unlike Windows XP, the built-in administrator is disabled by default in Windows 7/Vista. As for a lost Windows 7/Vista password, PC users are often highly recommended to use another accessible administrator account or a password reset disk created through the Windows built-in function. But most lost Windows 7/Vista password users prefer to use Windows Password Unlocker to remove its lost Windows password. With this Windows password recovery tool, a lost Windows password can be easily remove in a matter of minutes with a few clicks. And if you enable fingerprint logon, you can log on to your PC by it instead of the password consisting of letters, symbols and numbers.

Forgot Windows 8 Password

Undoubtedly, Windows 8 is the hottest topic among PC users. Though it will be launched in next year according to Microsoft CEO, there are many rumors and expectations about it. Do you expect it and will you switch to Windows 8 after its release? Well, if you easy to forget Windows password, you may can use facial logon to get back in your Windows 8 if you forgot Windows 8 password. Moreover, I believe that many Windows Password recovery tools will update for Windows 8 password recovery.

As Microsoft’s other products, MS SQL Server is easy to operate, and also has good speed and stability, thus becomes the first choice for database development in Windows platform. If you forgot SA password,  how to login to SQL Server? Find the old password or reset SA password to a new one?

SQL SERVER offers two login mechanisms: windows account login and database user login. The former login is to log on with windows system Administrator account, the latter is to log on with user account set up in the SQL Server – the typical one is SA account. Read more

For all things, we often can find a more efficient way than normal one, so as to RAR password setting and RAR password recovery.

Rar Password Setting

In previous post, we have talked about how to set RAR password quickly by using a new profile. Now we will learn how to encrypt RAR archive with default password by setting default compression option.

1.      Open a RAR file, click Options in menu bar, and then Select settings…

2.      In the pop-up window, click Create default… button. Read more

Due to the full rights of SA login in SQL Server, it is imperative to change SA password on a regular basis whether it is monthly, quarterly or semi-annually.  Changing SA password is a relatively easy process, having no impact on the organization.  Unfortunately, changing SA password on a regular basis is not a common practice at most organizations. Then how to change SA password? There are 2 methods to follow:

Method 1: Change SQL Server login password by its properties

If you can logon to SQL Server, just do as follows:

• 1. Login into SQL server.
• 2. In Object Explorer, open Security folder, open Logins folder. Right Click on SA account and go to Properties.
• 3. Type a new SQL SA password, and confirm it. Click OK to finish.

After restarting SQL Server and all its services, you can log into SQL Server by SA login with new SQL SA password. Read more

Probelm: I downloaded this rar file and apparently it is password protected , is there any possible way to extract it ?

Before going to recover RAR  password, you need to learn something important avout WinRAR encryption. There are provided 3 kinds of  tricks about this issue.

Trick one: A strong password

You may know that, WinRAR password recovery tools can recover all rar passwords theoretically, but in fact, as a strong password require a very long password recovery time (months or years), you still can protect your rar file securely with strong password.

A strong password should have at least eight characters that consists of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols (@, #, $, %, etc.). It should not only include the common letters and symbols on the keyboard, but also have seldom used ones. Strong passwords also do not contain words that can be found in a dictionary or parts of the file name. Read more

Are you familiar with SQL Server Authentication? How to login with it, and how to reset SA password when you need a new password? This passage will talk about that.

SQL Server operates in one of two authentication modes: Windows Authentication Mode (the default) or Mixed Mode (Windows Authentication and SQL Server Authentication). SQL Server Authentication is provided for backward compatibility, because applications written for SQL Server version 7.0 or earlier may require the use of SQL Server logins and passwords. Even though Windows Authentication is recommended, SQL Server Authentication may be required for connections with clients, and also be necessary for legacy applications. Read more

What do you do if you forgot Windows server 2008 (R2) password, especially the server is acting as a domain controller? Is it possible to create a password reset disk in advance to in case of this problem just like Windows 7/Vista/XP? Well, the answer is “NO” without question. But this doesn’t mean that you cannot create a password reset disk for Windows server 2008(R2). In reality, it’s an easy task to do this job as long as you can find a third-party tool. In this article, it will show you how to create a password reset USB to reset Windows domain password.

Things you need to prepare in advance
1. Windows Password Unlocker Enterprise.
2. Computer for download and installation.
3. USB flash drive.

Things you need to know before getting started
Windows Password Unlocker Enterprise is professionally designed to reset forgotten Windows domain administrator password on Windows 2008(R2)/2003(R2)/2000 acting as domain controllers.  By using this program, you are able to create a bootable password reset USB in any computer at first, next you can start the target computer from the bootable disk, and then you can reset the domain administrator password.

How to create a password reset USB?
Take the following steps to create the password reset USB. It will cost you a few seconds.
1. Download and install Windows Password Unlocker.
2. Launch this application and insert a USB flash drive in computer.
3. Select target device and Burn USB button to burn a bootable password reset USB.
4. Click Ok when the disk is burned.

How to use the password reset USB?
1. Insert the bootable password reset USB in the server you want to reset password of.
2. Start computer and set its BIOS to boot from USB.
3.  Specify an option to reset your forgotten domain admin password.
When the computer successfully boots from USB, you will find there are 2 options for you to reset lost Windows domain admin password.

Option 1. Reset the default domain administrator password.
Option 2. Create a new domain admin account to access domain again.

If the domain admin account you want to reset password of is the built-in administrator in your server, you can select the former. If not, select the latter.

4.  Click Reboot button to restart your computer after resetting the password or creating a new account.
Note: Please remove the password reset USB before computer restarts.
5. Access your domain with the changed information.
If you’ve chosen option 1 in step 3, access domain with following information:
User name: administrator; Password: Pu123456
If you’ve chosen option 2 in step 3, access domain with following information:
User name: unlocker; Password: Pu123456

More information
Please note Windows Password Unlocker Enterprise can also reset forgotten Windows local password on all popular Windows platforms. It means the created bootable password reset USB can also help you reset forgotten local admin and other user password for Windows 7/Vista/XP and Windows 2008(R2)/2003(R2)/2000 servers.

When you forgot SA password and could not access SQL server 2000/2005/2008, you have to reset SA password at that moment. To change the password, we can use a third-party commercial tool, or take advantage of a trick.

Tip 1 MS SQL Server Password Unlocker

For computer newbie, we suggest you utilize the easier way- MS SQL Server Password Unlocker.

SQL Server Password Unlocker could reset password for SQL server 2000/2005/2008. It works to modify the master.mdf file which stores SQL login password, in that way, it resets SA password.

The procedures are simple too: once you import the master.mdf to SQL Password Unlocker, it will quickly list all the logins. Select SA account and click change password button to input a new SQL server password, and then you are able to log on to SQL Server with the new password under SQL server authentication.

Note:

1. Make sure that you have reset SA password to a strong one. A strong password includes alpha-numeric and special characters, and a combination of upper and lower case characters.
2. SQL password Unlocker will change master.mdf file, for this reason, we highly recommend that you backup master.mdf first!

Tip 2 Command Prompt

1.      On the computer that is hosting the instance of MSDE to which you are connecting, open the command prompt window.

2.      Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
osql -U sa
At the Password: prompt, press ENTER if your password is blank or type the current password. This connects you to the local, default instance of MSDE by using the SA account. To connect by using Windows authentication, type this command: use osql -E

3.      Type the following commands, on separate lines, and then press ENTER:

sp_password @old = null, @new = 'complexpwd',  @loginame ='sa' 

   go

You will receive the following informational message, which indicates that you have reset SA password successfully:

Password changed.

More information about SA password:

According to Microsoft, System administrator (SA) is a special login provided for backward compatibility. By default, it is assigned to the sysadmin fixed server role and cannot be changed. Although it is a built-in administrator login, SA does not be used routinely. Instead, make system administrators members of the sysadmin to be fixed server role, and have them log on using their own logins. Use SA only when there is no other way to log in to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server.

If you have the habit of password protecting your files in Office 2007, you probably may be troubled this problem: What to do if I forgot Office 2007 password. It’s easy for you to set a strong password, but it also easy to get it forgotten. If you are not good at remembering various passwords, it’s better to set a password that is easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. If you forgot Office 2007 password, the following information will be what you are looking for.

Recover Office 2007 password with Office Password Unlcoker

If you forgot Office 2007 password, the only method is to pick up a good Office password recovery application, like Office Password Unlocker. Office Password Unlocker can help you recover lost password from a variety of MS Office files, including Word Document (*.doc, *.docx), Excel Worksheets (*.xls,*.xlsx), PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx) and Access Database (*.accdb). Incorporating advanced and unique techniques, this reliable application enables you to enjoy easy, safe and fast Office password recovery with 3 efficient recovery attacks: Brute-force attack, Brute-force with Mask attack and Dictionary attack.

Brute-force Attack - Try all possible password combinations to retrieve MS Office password.

Brute-force Attack with Mask - Specify the forgotten password length, character set and other characteristics to reduce the recovery time. (Highly Recommended)

Dictionary Attack - Recover lost Office password by trying the password combinations in the built-in dictionary or a self-created dictionary

How to use Office Password Unlocker?

1.       Download and install Office Password Unlocker.

2.       Click Open to import the Office file you want to open

3.       Choose an attack type to recover lost MS Office password and make settings

There are three attack types in our program for you to recover your password. They are Brute-force attack, Brute-force with Mask attack and Dictionary attack.

4.       Click Start button on the taskbar to recover the lost password, then you will get your lost password.

How long it will take to get back your password?

To be honest, no one can tell you how long it will take to recover a forgotten password. It may take you a few minutes while it may cost you several days. The time to recover a forgotten Office password is closely with the password recovery speed of the utility you select, your forgotten password length and complexity, your computer performance.

By using advanced search algorithm, multiple-core CPUs etc, Office Password Unlocker enables you enjoy faster recovery speed than other similar programs.

When you use windows admin account to log in to SQL server, usually there is no errors, but when logging in SQL server with SA user, you may not be able to access it for different reasons.

Reason 1: Disabled SQL server authentication mode
Step 1 Login SQL server with windows administrator, right-click the name of SQL Server, and then choose properties.
Step 2 Click security tab, in server authentication option, change it to SQL server and Windows authentication mode.
Step 3 Confirm and restart SQL server services.

Reason 2: Input a wrong SA password
Note that the password is case-sensitive. Check if you press caps lock key by mistake. If not, you may forget SA password unluckily, don’t worry, you can use a third-party software to reset SQL password soon.
MS SQL Server Password Unlocker could change any lost or forgotten SA and other user account password on MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 to a new one in seconds. No matter how long and complex the passwords are, once you import master.mdf to this program. Easy to use, no special computer skills required, and no need to reinstall SQL Server. See the below picture:

Reason 3 Disabled SA account
This problem often appears when using the SQL server at the beginning. When SQL server is installed, SA user is disabled by default.
Please do following to enable SA user.
Step 1 Right-click SA, and choose properties.
Step 2 Click status tab, and check enable in login option.

In a word, when you face login problem with SQL server, please check if you enabled SQL server authentication mode and SA account at first, and then make sure you have input correct SA password, otherwise, you may need to reset SQL password.

When you forgot Windows password, you can instantly fix the problem by using powerful Windows password reset applications like Windows Password Unlocker. Then what if you forgot Office password? Here I mean that you forgot the open password to Office files, like Word documents, Excel spreadsheets. How do you get back your lost Office password at that time?

With respect to forgotten Office password, the only method to recover it that I can think of is to choose a powerful and easy Office password recovery tool. There are a large number of Office password recovery tools for your choice. After evaluating the recovery result, speed, ease of use and other factors, select one that suits you best.

If you forgot password for Word/Excel files created in Office 97-2003, it’s highly suggested to have a try of Office Password Breaker. This Office password recovery application allows you to reset passwords instantly for Office 97-2003 Word documents and Excel spreadsheets by auto-creating a copy of them in seconds, regardless of password length and complexity. The copy of Word document is not password protected while the password for the copy of Excel file is “999” by default.

1.       Download and install Office Password Breaker.

2.        Import the word document or Excel spreadsheets that you want to remove password from.

3.       Click Remove Password button to start resetting password.

4.       Wait for feedback after breaking Word or Excel password.

If you forgot Office 2007 password, like Word 2007 password and Excel 2007 password, Windows Password Unlcoker will be what you are in need of. Office Password Unlocker can help you recover lost password from a variety of MS Office files, including Word Document (*.doc, *.docx), Excel Worksheets (*.xls,*.xlsx), PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx) and Access Database (*.accdb).

Unlike Office Password Breaker, Office Password Breaker helps you retrieve forgotten Office password by using Brute-force and Dictionary attacks. As for the time to recover the lost password, it may take from a few minutes up to several days, depending on the file type, and the password length and symbol set.

1.       Download and install Office Password Unlcoker.

2.       Click Open to import the Office file you want to retrieve password for.

3.       Choose an attack type to recover lost MS Office password and make settings for it.

4.       Click Start button on the taskbar to recover Office  password, then you will get your lost password.