a journey from thought to destiny

a journey from thought to destiny

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

create password reset disk in windows 7

In order to create the password reset disk in windows 7 you can follow the steps described below.
this will help us when we forget the password to enter the system. you can attach the removable media to your pc and click the link of "reset password". enjoy it


  1. Click on Start and then Control Panel in Windows 7.
  2. Click on the User Accounts link.
  3. In the task pane on the left, click the Create a password reset disk link.
  4. When the Forgotten Password Wizard window appears, click Next
  5. In the I want to create a password key disk in the following drive: drop down box, choose the portable media drive to create a Windows 7 password reset disk on.
    Click Next to continue.
  6. With the disk or other media still in the drive, enter your current account password in the text box and click Next.
  7. Windows 7 will now create the password reset disk on your chosen media.
    When the progress indicator shows 100% complete, click Next and then click Finish in the next window.
  8. You can now remove the flash drive or floppy disk from your computer.

How to Write-Protect USB Flash Drive

     Follow the following steps to write enable your usb flash drive.
1. Open the Registry Editor (Open the “Run” dialog box, type regedit and hit “Enter”).
2. Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
 3. Create a New Key named as StorageDevicePolicies. To do this right-click on Control, and click on New->Key and name it as StorageDevicePolicies.
4. Now right-click on  StorageDevicePolicies and create a New->DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it as WriteProtect.
5. Double-click on WriteProtect and set the Value data to 1.
To revert and remove the write-protection, all you need to do is just change the Value data for WriteProtect (Step-5) from 1 back to 0.