An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When Windows stores a password, it is done so by hashing the password in an LM hash and putting it in the Windows SAM file. In the scary moment ...

We’ve all been there before. You put a brand-spanking-new password on your Windows computer, then promptly continue to use it without rebooting for several weeks ...

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...

Did you change your Microsoft Account password just before going to bed, and now you can’t remember it in the morning? It is possible that you may not be able to log in to your Windows PC. Many times ...

Have you ever thought about what you’d do if you ever forgot or lost your Windows password? (That is, besides cursing fate.) In the old days, you could usually get back into the PC through other ...

Note: This review addresses v4.15 of thesoftware. Lost a password to an important Word or Excel file, can’t findit, and figure the file may be lost forever? There’s a chance thatyou may be able to ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...