5 Best Windows Password Recovery Tools

If you've lost Windows password and don't have a password reset disk at hand, you need to reset forgotten Windows password with the help of Windows password recovery tool. But there are various windows password recovery tools, so sometimes it is hard for you to choose a good one among them. Here I list 5 best Windows password recovery tools for your choice. Both freeware and shareware are available.

1. Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery

Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery provides you an easy and safe solution to recover lost Windows password on Windows 7/Vista/XP/XT and Windows Server 2008/2003/2000. It has 3 editions to help you perform Windows password recovery. The standard edition allows you to burn a bootable CD/DVD to recover lost Windows administrator password and user password. If you want to reset the Windows password with an USB flash drive, you can try the professional edition, which allows you to burn a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive to reset lost Windows local password. If you forgot domain administrator password, you can try to reset the Windows domain password with the enterprise edition.

2. Windows Password Breaker

Windows Password Breaker is professionally designed to recover lost Windows local password and domain password by burning a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Just like Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery, this software is also classified to 3 editions: Standard, Professional and Enterprise. But Windows Password Breaker allows you to recover Windows password under DOS while Rekeysoft Windows Password Recovery allows you to recover Windows password under Windows PE. It is more preferable for those with little computer skills.

3. Ophcrack

Ophcrack is an open source Windows password recovery software based on rainbow tables. The program contains the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows. It is claimed that these tables can crack 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords of up to 14 characters in usually a few minutes. But the size of its LiveCD ISO image is 496MB, it will cost you much time to download it to recover Windows password.

4. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is not only a Windows password recovery tool, but also an almost fully functional registry editor. This free Windows password recovery tool allows you to set or reset the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT systems. It works offline and will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled user accounts. The only disadvantage of this Windows password recovery software is that it is completely text based, so it is a little inconvenient.

Although these above Windows password recovery tools can help you reset forgotten Windows password, it is better for you to create a password reset disk when you can log on computer.