Ok so interesting situation ive got myself into... I change my Win 7 Admin password on a whim so others would stop using my laptop... (Bad idea i know...) I forgot what I changed my password to BUT I am able to log in with my fingerprint (50% of the time, scanner is finicky)... only problem is that i CAN NOT change my admin password without my current password and it does not accept a fingerprint as current password sadly... So does anyone have a program (read: windows executable) that i can use to change and/or nuke my current admin password...? Sidenote: My C: partition is across 2 HDD's in RAID 0 so ANY AND ALL LINUX BOOTABLE IMAGES DO NOT RECOGNIZE MY WINDOWS PARTITION so please save me the time by NOT POSTING A BOOTABLE IMAGE link... Also yes i have tried to use System Restore however i do not have any restore points close enough to keep files and stuff i wanted, also trying to avoid copying everything to an external HDD and re-installing windows... Thanks!

Little Update: Was able to make a PwDump file with my PW Hash, unfortunately it is 16 characters long... So unless someone has a nuke program that i can run while logged in... =(

Silly me... Created a new Admin account and changed the password on the original... Anyways... Moral of the story: I'm an idiot...

In message <0e97b4ed-2014-451a-afae-3747f1a31a10@communitybridge.codeplex.com> ATwig was claimed to have wrote: Ok so interesting situation ive got myself into... I change my Win 7 Admin password on a whim so others would stop using my laptop... (Bad idea i know...) I forgot what I changed my password to BUT I am able to log in with my fingerprint (50% of the time, scanner is finicky)... only problem is that i CAN NOT change my admin password without my current password and it does not accept a fingerprint as current password sadly... So does anyone have a program (read: windows executable) that i can use to change and/or nuke my current admin password...? "net user" can change your password, or you can use the "Advanced user management" Control Panel applet to do the trick. Go to Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Manage User Accounts --> Advanced --> Advanced user management --> Advanced --> Double click on "Users" and finally right click on your account and change the password. Note that you will lose access to all EFS encrypted files and saved passwords.

As far as I know, there is a blog focus on exploring various methods to reset lost Windows passwords: http://www.windows7password.com