12 ways to reset the Windows administrator password – Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP

In this article, I describe 12 ways for resetting the administrator password on Windows 7, Vista, or Windows XP. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Make sure you use the right procedure for your situation.

If you forgot the admin password and have no other account with administrator rights, things can get tricky. The methods and free tools explained here can reset the Windows password for all Windows versions—that is, for Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 R2. In this article I only talk about the Windows client editions, but the methods also work for the corresponding server versions. The methods described here are not for resetting lost domain administrator passwords.
As system administrator, you are usually confronted with this problem if users have admin rights on their machines. Even if you don’t have to reset a password now, you should get acquainted with this issue. Rest assured that sooner or later a user will bug you with this problem. I must admit that I managed to forget my password more than once.
Note that I published this article a few years ago, but since then I updated it several times and added a few new methods. Not much of the original article is left except the numerous comments below. As you can see, forgetting the Windows password is a common problem.

Change Password on Windows 7 (Fastest)

Changing your Windows 7 password on a regular basis is a good habit to help keep your PC secure. You might also want to change your Windows 7 password if you've been having problem remembering or entering your current one.
Changing your password in Windows 7 is very easy. Follow the easy steps below to change your Windows 7 password:

Note: If you're trying to change your Windows 7 password because you've forgotten it and can no longer access Windows, see Tip #2 at the bottom of the page for help.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: Changing your Windows 7 password usually takes less than a few minutes

How to Configure Win 7 for a Limited User Account

This Tech Tip was written exclusively for the Windows 7 experience, but most of it applies to Vista as well.
In addition, this paper describes workgroup or standalone machine setups only; it does not address the more complex enterprise environments for domain-joined machines.

Windows 7 is now in Release Candidate status (build 7100, May 2009), and many are trying this new operating system. Those who skipped past Vista from XP are finding a new experience and an entirely new security paradigm: User Account Control.

UAC was introduced with Vista and was widely maligned due to its in-your-faceness, and though it's calmed down some as Vista has been updated, it seems to have really hit its stride in Windows 7. I like UAC a lot.
But even in its imperfect form, it was a good idea, attempting to brighten the terribly blurry line between administrative tasks and user tasks that has plagued Windows since the early days.
Much of this is due to the early consumer operating systems Win95, Win98, and WinME, which maintained no technical distinction between these roles: everybody was always an administrator, and software developers had no way of even thinking about a separation of roles.

But even with the more modern NT-based systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP, it was so painful to really get your work done as a non-administrative user that most people simply gave up and ran with an admin account. This was almost entirely due to poor habits by software developers: they themselves ran as admins, and simply wrote sloppy code that assumed everybody was one too.
Microsoft has been trying very hard to counter this everybody-is-an-admin mentality, and UAC was their attempt at compromise: if you're going to run as admin, at least we can make you aware of the role differences. This is what UAC is attempting to do.

Recording & Save Radio Internet Streaming as MP3 Audio Files with AudaCity

The radio programme is available as streaming audio [in Real Media or Windows Media] via the BBC Radio Player but there're no direct URLs to download the entire radio show as an MP3 file.

Sakshi wants to save the BBC radio stream on her computer and is looking for some simple method to do this. [download rm file from BBC and then convert real audio to mp3]

So here's a simple trick that uses a free software called Audacity to download any streaming radio from the internet to your hard drive as a WAV or MP3 file.

How to Install Fonts on Windows OS

Fonts are the typefaces we see on the computer screen. For example, Times New Roman and Verdana are fonts, and they define the shape of the characters we see on screen. A font can either be a serif font or a sans serif font and can be set in a bunch of different sizes.

System Requirements

• OpenType fonts can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher.
• TrueType fonts can be used with all the versions of the Microsoft Windows OS.
• To utilize PostScript Type 1 fonts, the installation of Adobe Type Manager (ATM) or ATM Deluxe is needed. However, if you are using Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher, you need not install it because it’s already a part of the operating system.