While most of the world has yet upgraded to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up to launch the next version of its PC operating system. And at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it would be including support for system-on-a-chip (SoC) and mobile ARM processors in its next version of the Windows operating system, which is expected to be called Windows 8.

Although Windows 8 is not released now, there are many rumors and leaks about the new functions of Windows 8. Recently one of the leaked functions is graphical password log on for Windows 8. According to the leaked YouTube video, Microsoft introduced the concept of graphical login in Windows 8. It shows the user can use the graphical passwords in a 4×4 array of ways of drawing their own login password, create their own unique mix, and with a simple touch method of login. This method is similar to the current Android platform concept. It’s also reported Windows 8 users can log on the system easily with facial recognition through the camera.

Well, this is an extremely news, especially to those users who often forgot Windows login password. Nowadays PC users are like to set a Windows login password to stop unauthorized users from accessing their confidential and private computer data. And for security reasons, the Windows password should be long and complicated enough. But here the problem is that a complicated password can be easily forgotten or lost. Although PC experts highly suggest users should create Windows password that is easy to remember yet hard for other to guess, it hard to achieve it.

Whenever you search on Yahoo Answer or other technical forums, you’ll find various questions about how to recover or reset Window logon password and get back in PC. It is a very common phenomena that PC users forgot their Windows login password without learning how to regain access to their computer, even though users can create a password reset disk to in case of a forgotten password. Honestly speaking, most PC users resort to an expensive PC experts or find a reliable Windows password recovery software like Windows Password Unlocker to solve this issue when they come across a lost Windows login password. Of course, if you are still a Windows XP user, you may be lucky to regain access to your computer via its built-in administrator account, which is enabled and not password protected by default in Windows XP, while it is not activated in Windows Visa/7.

Of course, if you own the newest version Windows 7, it is easy to  reset the forgotten password on Windows 7 and  regain access the laptop with the enable fingerprint once you have created before with the special function.

As a common PC user, have you ever troubled by a lost Windows login password ? Well, if you update to Windows 8 when it comes out, you may be free of this kind of problem if you use its facial recognition logon. Of course, if you only has text password and forget it, you still don’t need to worry as I believe some Windows password recovery tools at market now will allow you to get the lost password back or reset it within a short time.