Step One
Start (or restart) your computer. You can do this by clicking the reset
button in the Windows 7 Login Prompt or pressing the On/Off button on your computer.
Step Two
Make Windows 7 have a hard shutdown. Complete this step by pressing the
On/Off button on your computer while the “Starting Windows” screen is active.
Step Three
Start your computer again. Same, complete this task by pressing the On/Off
button on your computer.
Step Four
Select the “Launch Start up Repair” option. If you completed steps 1, 2 and
3 correctly, you will be given to options on how to start your computer:
normally or using the Start up Repair. You should select the Start up Repair
option.
Step Five
Cancel the “Do you want to use System Restore?” prompt. After you’ve
launched Start up Repair, a prompt will pop up on your screen. You will want to
select “Cancel”.
Step Six
Wait until Windows has finished repairing your computer. After completing
Step 5, you will have to wait. The repairing process will not harm any of your
personal files.
Step Seven
Click the arrow in the bottom-left corner of the window. After waiting, a
window saying “Start up Repair could not repair your computer.” You will see an
arrow pointing downwards in the bottom left corner (Problem Details).
Step Eight
Scroll down and click the last link. After Step 7, a window will pop up
displaying the Problem Details. Scroll down until you see links. Ignore the
first one, click the second one.
Step Nine
File > Open > Computer > Local Disk > Windows > System32. After completing Step 8, Notepad will open up. You will want to follow the route displayed in bold.
Step Ten
Switch from Text Documents (*.txt) to All Files. You can do this by simply
clicking the drop-down menu, displayed as Text Documents (*.txt) and select All
Files.
Step Eleven
Find the application named sethc and rename it to sethc-bak. Sethc is the
application for the Sticky Keys program. You have to rename it to sethc-bak as
a backup file. This won’t do any harm to your computer or personal files.
Step Twelve
Find the application named cmd and copy & paste it into the folder
System32 (the one you’re in right now). Cmd is the application known as Command
Prompt. After this, you will have a file named cmd – Copy in the System32
folder.
Step Thirteen
Rename cmd – Copy to sethc. To be able to access cmd without permission from
Windows, you will need to trick Windows thinking it is Sticky Keys.
Step Fourteen
Close all opened windows and select “Finish”. You’re done! Now you just need
to close out of all the opened windows and restart your computer.
Step Fifteen
Hit Shift 5 times. After successfully restarting your computer, hit Shift on
your keyboard 5 times. Command Prompt with administrator privileges opens up!
Step Sixteen
net user [username] *. Enter this code into the command prompt to change the
[username]’s password. You will not be able to see the new entered password, so
enter it wisely.
Step Seventeen
Close Command Prompt. After you’ve successfully changed the user’s password,
you can now close cmd
Step Eighteen
Enter the password you’ve just set for the user. After you’ve entered the password – you’re in! This is all you need to do!
Enjoy!