Windows 8 password recovery disc...

[spyder]

Does anyone here have the windows 8 password recovery disc that I can borrow? Our only computer did some freaky glitch and doesn't remember the log on password now andnthere is no way around having thenpassword to bypass anything on windows 8.

[jslo]

Had basically the same issue this past weekend. My new computer geek at office depot brought mine back to life.

[crays]

I think that's one you have to create specific to your machine after setup. I had the misfortune of dealing with this about a month ago on my dad's pc. Of course he didn't create one, but fortunately I understand his thought process, and was able to figure his p/w out from the info he gave me ( and of course he was ADAMANT that the pw he gave me was correct).
Hope you can get it figured out. I spent a good while researching, and couldn't find any viable workaround.

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[Hummer]

Isn't windows 8 wonderful?

[Delfuego]

You can use Ophcrack to get your password, it can be created on a CD or Bootable USB drive.

Isn't windows 8 wonderful?

Super helpful...

[strm_trpr]

I don't have a copy on me but this is the tool to use !!

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

The NT iso needs to be downloaded and burned to a cd, then boot from CD, there are some youtube tutorials on the the subject.

Should work but no promises .

[Jer]

Isn't windows 8 wonderful?

It has lots of nice improvements over Windows 7 which had nice improvements over Vista which had nice improvements over XP and so on despite the rabid anti-Windows marketing campaign that Apple has been wasting millions on over the years. In fact, the last horrid Windows OS was ME and you have to go back quite a ways to get to that turd. For the average user Windows 8 is a wonderful platform and I highly recommend a touch screen paired with it for optimal input capabilities. Remember this is the first OS actually designed with touchscreen in mind so using it w/o touchscreen is about like using an early OS w/o a mouse once they started developing them around them. Sure you can issue keyboard commands and what not but for the average user a mouse is easier for most inputs. Same here. Lots of complaints come from those who don't have a touchscreen and even more of those who haven't even used it and just want to complain about something or echo what they heard a 'buddy' say.

[Hummer]

Thanks, Jer. I know I wasn't helpful to the OP, didn't have anything useful to offer but was reaching for anybody's insight on Windows 8. In Aug. I moved from an older win xp computer to an HP p7-1517cb and have struggled with it ever since. The user instructions were almost non existent and the computer just didn't work in a logical and intuitive manner. Screens and menus would mysteriously appear and disappear and often when I'd mouse click on an icon nothing would happen. At one point HP support had me take the hd back to day one, scrubbing all the software I'd loaded, like MS office, photoshop, quicken, etc. I've been watching videos and reading about win 8 for 3 months, made a few preference tweaks and things were going better until I downloaded win 8.1 last weekend. Aargh! Now the new HP printer doesn't work, probably the driver isn't 8.1 compatible, and lost our internet connection links. Surely other issues I haven't found yet. More fun and games.

I think you're right about the OS working better with a touch screen. When I bought, my impression was that desktop touchscreens weren't very well developed and their capability was limited, so I went with the 27" non touch in the link above. Love the screen, btw. I want a more menu driven system and I think I can achieve that if I can get the icons and tiles to respond to the mouse. How is it that I click with the mouse and nothing happens??!!!

Not sure if it's just win 8.* being dysfunctional without a touch screen or if there are HP issues too. Maybe a separate touch pad would be helpful but I've never liked the touch pad on my laptop (which I'm using now). Anyway, Microsoft isn't on my best friends list right now.....

[Gman]

I abhor Windows 8/8.1. In the enterprise environment, it just doesn't work. It's not a productivity platform. It's a consumption platform.

If all you do is browse the Interwebz, some email, and check your Faceyspaces, you'll probably do fine with it.