Have you ever commented on Gawk media sites, including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, gawk, Jezebel, IO9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Dead Spin, and Fleshbot? If so, you should change your password now. It is reported Gawk Media servers have been hacked, with 1.25 million accounts submitted to The Pirate Bay. The company warned users to reset their passwords, including on other sites if they use the same password everywhere.
A great lesson to learn from the incident which Gawk not using the same password everywhere. Did you used to use a password or similar for several major accounts, including accounts in the same machine to Windows 7? If so, reset the password of Windows 7 immediately if safety hazard hidden. You can see the three ways below and find out how to reset the password of Windows 7 in different situations.
Mode 1: Ctrl + Alt + Delete
This is an easy and effective way to reset the password for Windows 7 with forgotten your old password in seconds.
1. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to enter the next screen, click Change Password
2. Type your old password, enter and confirm the new password and press Enter.
3. Click OK when the message that changed the password appears.
Channel 2: Netplwiz
This approach works well if you need to reset Windows password with the original password forgotten or unknown. But it requires to connect to Windows 7 with another administrator account.
1. Netplwiz entry into the Start Search box, then press Enter.
2. Choose a user account and click Reset Password to reset your password.
Third Enter and confirm a new password for the account selected and click OK to exit.
Channel 3: Windows Password Breaker
You can return to this method, when the computer is locked with unknown or forgotten passwords, and you can not reuse it.
Windows Password Breaker is a safe and reliable tool for the Windows password, which allows users to reset forgotten password of Windows 7, even when the computer is locked. With this tool, the first thing is to burn a CD / DVD or USB flash drive does not have access to a computer. Then you can burn a CD / DVD or USB flash drive to reset your password.
First Download and install Windows Password Breaker.
Second Burn a bootable CD / DVD or USB flash drive.
3. Start the computer locked in a CD / DVD or USB.
4. Restore Windows 7, the password is blank.
So if you have forgotten your password or want Windows 7 to change it to a new, follow the steps above, its an easy and effective way to reset the password of Windows 7.
