How to reset password in windows vista home premium for laptop

My system has got locked. we had not set pwd but unfortunately its locked.
Not sure if my son was medling with it. Now to reset its asking to insert
USB flash drive or removable disk. Its not working though that way. How do
I get it reset now.

Did you create a password reset disk before you got locked out?
Why not ask your son if he set a password and ask him for it?

Open CMD, if you can boot if of the LIVE CD, and CLick REPAIR WINDOWS
(If Using VISTA) then type - net user Administrator /active:yes

then reboot,
and if the command says its worked and it worked, then your in

although it will say that the command completed successfully, it wont
show you any administrator account at the logon screen.

[shiv333]

Do you have another Administrative account on that computer? If you do, you
can login to that account and go into User Management and reset the password from there.

That's not going to help, from what you have described a password has been
set for Windows, removing the battery for a few minutes will reset a BIOS
password, but not the Windows password.

I have not tried this on Vista yet but in XP Home you could boot to safe
mode using F8 at startup. Once in safe mode there was an Administrator
account that microsoft left with out a password log in and change the
password of your account.

Possible spam. Why direct the OP - in an answered, closed thread btw - to a
program hosted on a questionable website when the goal can be accomplished
natively in Windows?

Open CMD, if you can boot if of the LIVE CD, and CLick REPAIR WINDOWS
(If Using VISTA) then type - net user Administrator /active:yes

then reboot,
and if the command says its worked and it worked, then your in :)

Ok, ummm, open cmd and type someting along the lines of ( going by XP)

Net user Username /add

eg. Net user sparks /add

No my son is 3 yr old and dont know what he set. Well I do not have
administrative acct also. But someone suggested me that my laptop is Toshiba
make and it has a problem of getting locked automatically. So we need
unscrew at the back remove the small cell and then connect it back and try.
This also resets the pwd. I shall try this today evening.

Why do you try to use the Windows Password Reset? No need to call a technician, no need to re-install anything, and you certainly don't need to reformat. The program will enable you to reset the password to "Blank" with no -reformatting or installation. Do all the job for you automatically. It's worth a try.

You will probable downloasd and burn
PW reset or Pw guess CD somewhere else.

Vista password guessing CD could help.
Note thhat is not brute force, but can guess
only ( AFAIK ) subset of possible passwords,
i.e no special characters, only alphanumerical.

But I can be wrong.

A few days ago, I had met the headache things that I had forgotten Windows login password. The login screen rejected my passwords. I was frustrated because there was very important data on my disk and I couldn't reinstall the OS. ............. However, I fortunately got to know the Windows Password Unlocker, which is a professional windows password recovery tool for us to reset windows vista password instantly yet no data loss.

This is very easy to do, but rather than explain it all here, I've found two articles that show you exactly how to do it.
This is the easiest method, but for this you need to have the Windows Setup DVD that came with you computer, if not go to the second link.

If you dont have the setup DVDs, then follow this link to fix it. These methods requires a bit more work though, but is just as effective.

Vista Password?
Below is the most famous recovery tool I found:
Windows Password Recovery 6.0 – it is an easy-to-use tool designed for resetting local administrator and user passwords on any Windows system. If you have forgotten your password, or are locked out, or you do not have access to the password of the system.

Password Recovery Bundle –This is a utility to reset the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your windows system. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. It’ll detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts. It is also an almost fully functional registry editor.

[sampatrik1]

Hi Asha,

If you are not a technical person and you don't have password reset disk then it it better to use third party password recovery software like stellar phoenix password recovery to reset windows password. This is the easiest way to reset password.