Im an IT technician and i deal with a fair amount of clients who have locked themselves out of their computers. This is normally a very quick and painless process no matter the windows operating system; other then with windows 8 live accounts. Local accounts are no problem as we(my company) use(s) MSDART or Passcape to remove or preferably recover the users password for our clients. So this brings me to my question. Does anyone know of any GOOD software to recover (preferably recover) or remove windows live account passwords? I dont mind paying a few hundred dollars for a quality product that will pay dividend in the future but dont want to wast my time and money trying a product that doesn't fulfill my needs.
Also on a somewhat unrelated topic, is there a windows 8 product key recovery tool that can recover the windows 8 key from the bios without having to be in a windows installation first? Such a tool would be very useful for recovering the product key from computers with completely failed HDDs for installation purposes. I know when you load windows 8 it should pull the product key from the bios but ive ran into a few where this is not the case. Running a business i cant give a clients computer back with an unactivated windows. Thats just extreamly unprofessional, although some shops in my area do so, and boot loaders/activators are out of the question for obvious reasons.
Thanks in advance for any input into the subject.
-Aj
Also on a somewhat unrelated topic, is there a windows 8 product key recovery tool that can recover the windows 8 key from the bios without having to be in a windows installation first? Such a tool would be very useful for recovering the product key from computers with completely failed HDDs for installation purposes. I know when you load windows 8 it should pull the product key from the bios but ive ran into a few where this is not the case. Running a business i cant give a clients computer back with an unactivated windows. Thats just extreamly unprofessional, although some shops in my area do so, and boot loaders/activators are out of the question for obvious reasons.
Thanks in advance for any input into the subject.
-Aj
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- FX9370
- Motherboard
- ASUS
- Memory
- 16GB GSkill
- Graphics Card(s)
- GTX560ti
- Hard Drives
- SSD 120GB
HDD 4T
- PSU
- Corsair 850w
- Case
- Scout II
- Cooling
- H80i