What comes to your mind first when you forgot Windows XP password, re-installation or restoration? Actually, everyone knows that’s not the best choice since PC users will lose their information or data of files. Besides they are time-consuming. Fortunately, Windows XP enables you to create a password reset disk to recover Windows XP password while allowing you to set a strong password to protect your computer. And here is some guidance for Windows XP Password recovery by creating and using a XP password reset disk.

To Create Windows XP password reset disk, you need some preparations, and a USB flash drive should be prepared in advance. Then, here are the steps to create a windows XP password reset disk:

Step 1: Click ‘Start’ button to select ‘Control Panel’. And then, Click ‘User Account’ on the following Windows screen.

Step 2: Select the User Account you want to create password reset disk for.

Step 3: Click ‘Prevent a forgotten password’.

Step 4: The Windows Password reset wizard will come up, Click ‘Next’.

Step 5: Insert the USB flash drive into your computer. The next box will say Create a Password Reset Disk and ask you to insert your blank formatted disk in your floppy drive. Click the ‘Next’ button.

Step 6: Enter your password at the Current User Account Password Box and click ‘Next’.

Step 7: Windows XP will create the password reset disk. When the progress indicator shows “100% complete”, click ‘Next’.

Step 8: Click ‘Finish’ when the forgotten password wizard box prompts you to do so.

After creating a Windows XP password reset disk, you should know how to use the disk to get Windows XP password recovery. Here are instructions you should follow:

Step 1: Start your computer to enter the Windows XP log on screen.

Step 2: Input an incorrect password in the Password box, and then press ‘Enter’.

Step3: In the following ‘Logon Failed’ dialog box, click ‘use your password reset disk’. The Password Reset Wizard starts.

Step 4: Enter the Password Reset Wizard page, click ‘Next’.

Step 5: Insert the password reset disk, and then click ‘Next’.

Step 6: On the Reset the User Account Password page, type a new password twice.

Step 7: In the ‘Type a new password hint’ box, type a hint, click ‘Next’, then click ‘Finish’.

Then, you can log on your Computer with the newly created password since the password has been successfully reset. In addition, you can also reset Windows XP password with a burning bootable CD/DVD or USB flash Drive by using a Windows password recovery tool—Windows Login Recovery.

All in all, Windows XP password recovery is no longer hard or difficult. You can feel relax even if you forgot the XP password by learning the method above.