How to Reset Your User Account Password with the Password Reset Disk in Windows 8

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If you have previously created a password reset disk on a USB flash drive for your user account in Windows 8, then this will show you how to use it to reset your password with a new password to be able to sign in with instead afterwards.

A password reset disk will only reset your normal password created during the installation of Windows 8, and will not reset your pin number or picture password.

Here's How:

1. Once you had already typed in the wrong password for the current user account, and pressed Enter or clicked on OK, you will get The password is incorrect. Try again. message. Click on OK. (see screenshot below)





2. Connect the USB flash drive that was used to create a password reset disk on for this specific user account to your computer.


3. Click on the Reset password link. (see screenshot below)





4. Click on Next. (see screenshot below)





5. Select the USB flash drive that was used to create a password reset disk on for this specific user account to your computer from step 2, and click on Next. (see screenshot below)





6. Type in a new password for the user account, type it in again to confirm it, type in a password hint, and click on Next. (see screenshot below)





7. When it's finished resetting the password of the current user account to the new password, click on Finish. (see screenshot below)





8. You will now be able to sign in to this user account with the new password.




That's it,
Shawn

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