If you are like me I’m pretty sure that you sometimes may forget your password. In fact, I’m willing to bet that like me you have a wallet full of passwords that gets pretty difficult to tell which password goes for which site. More on password keepers in another post. But what if you actually don’t remember your computer password. As I did when I was trying to update my password wallet into a digital format. What if you also haven’t set up the nifty windows password recovery option. What do you do then? 
We’ll I had the chance to find this out first hand. Initially I was using a program called ERD Commander. But when I upgraded my operating system I couldn’t use it and Microsoft was not help with it. That’s when I found OPHCrack. OPHcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. It is also very simple to use. 
So if you are looking for a way to get back into your computer. I would recommend using OPHCrack. http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/download.php?type=ophcrack Now I understand that everyone is not as technology savvy as I am, so here is a link to the how to guide. http://sourceforge.net/p/ophcrack/wiki/ophcrack%20Howto/ I will tell you when you download turn off your Virus Protection, this download will trigger you virus protection. I assure you however, it is not harmful to you system. After the few minute download. remember to turn your virus protection back on. Now if you still are having problems once you run the disk that you will create, and following the prompts, I’m more than welcome to give you a hand. Simply post your question here or use my Contact page to get hold of me. I’m also pretty sure your local IT guy can figure this out pretty quickly. If you are stuck on using the windows system. Howtogeek.com has a great post on how to create a windows password reset disk. But OPHCrack has not let me down yet.
Corey Stokes 