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How to Recover Lost Office 2013 Product Key (CD Key)

May 29th, 2013 by Admin

Have you lost or misplaced your product key for your Office 2013 installation? Well, the product key is usually on a sticker attached to your CD case or the computer that came with Office 2013 installed. If you downloaded Microsoft Office 2013, your product key was probably included in an email from Microsoft.

If you are still unable to find your Office product key, there is an easy way that can help you recover lost Office 2013 product key (CD key) from your current Office installation. Just get an Office product key finder and you can find Office 2013 product key in just a few steps!

How to Recover Lost Office 2013 Product Key (CD Key)?

Product Key Finder is one of the best Office key finder programs which can help you retrieve lost Office CD key from your current Office installation. Easily get back your lost product key and save your time and money!

  1. Download and install Product Key Finder program on your computer.
  2. Launch Product Key Finder program and then click on “Start Recovery” button.
  3. Choose the “From current system” option to let the program to search the product keys in the Windows registry on your local computer.
  4. After a while, the program will display your Office 2013 product key, Windows CD key and other serial keys for many supported software installed on your computer.

After recovering your Office 2013 product key, write your product key down exactly as the key finder program shows it to you for use when reinstalling Microsoft Office 2013. If you need to reinstall Microsoft Office 2013 but you’ve tried everything and still can’t find your Office 2013 product key, you may have to purchase the software all over again.

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How to Retrieve Outlook Password from Registry

May 28th, 2013 by Admin

I forgot my email password in Outlook 2007, I know what my username is. I just do not remember my password. Is there any way that I would be able to find out what my password is?

If you’ve lost or forgotten your Outlook password, you will be unable to access your email account online through a web browser or set up that email account on another computer. This could be a headache thing especially when you have to reinstall the system but can’t afford to lose the email account in your Outlook application.

Luckily, there is an easy way to retrieve your Outlook password from the Windows registry. If Outlook asks you to enter your email password and you’ve checked the “Remember password” option, it will save your password in the Windows registry but in a encrypted form. Using Outlook Password Recovery program you can decrypt and retrieve your forgotten Outlook password quickly and easily.

How to Retrieve Outlook Password from Registry?

  1. Download and install Outlook Password Recovery program on your local computer.
  2. After installing, start the program and click on the “Start Recovery” button.

  3. The program will begin to search your Windows registry for Outlook email accounts, then decrypt and retrieve your Outlook passwords immediately.
  4. After recovering the password, you can save the Outlook passwords along with other account settings into a text file for safe keeping.

The method above allows you to retrieve Outlook 2013/2010/2007/2003/2000 passwords from registry on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. This is not a hacking trick because it requires you to have physical access to your computer.

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How to Unlock ASUS Laptop if I Forgot the Administrator Password

May 28th, 2013 by Admin

I changed the administrator password and then when I tried to log in again, I forgot it. It’s an ASUS laptop and I do not have a password reset disc. How can I recover or reset the administrator password without wiping out the hard drive?

Forgot the administrator on your ASUS laptop? Need to reset lost password in an ASUS notebook running Windows 7, Vista or XP? Losing an administrator password can render Windows system useless and the situation arises frequently. Luckily there is an easy way to unlock your ASUS laptop by resetting your forgotten administrator password, so you can log back in to Windows without reinstalling.

How to Unlock ASUS Laptop if I Forgot the Administrator Password?

To unlock the administrator password on your ASUS laptop, we need to use a software called Reset Windows Password. It is password recovery program which needs to be burned to a CD or USB thumb drive. Boot your locked ASUS laptop from the CD/USB drive and you can reset the administrator password easily. Just follow these simple instructions:

  1. To get started, download the .zip archive of Windows Password Reset utility which contains a bootable ISO image. Unpack the .zip file and you’ll get the ResetWindowsPwd.iso file. Burn it to a CD (or USB thumb drive) using ISO2Disc, BurnCDCC or other CD burning program.
  2. After the boot CD is created, take it out from the CD drive and then insert it into your locked ASUS laptop. Turn on or restart the laptop and press ESC when the Asus logo is on screen to access the Boot Menu. Choose the CD-ROM from the bootable device list and press Enter.
  3. The system will boot from the CD and open up the Reset Windows Password program after a while. The program automatically analyzes your Windows SAM registry hive and shows you a list of local user accounts.
  4. Choose the administrator account and click on “Reset Password” button, the program will reset the password and unlock the administrator account if it was disabled, locked out or expired.

Remove the CD and restart your ASUS laptop. Now you should be able to log in to the administrator account without being asked for a password. Quickly unlock your ASUS laptop without losing any files on your computer. You can use this method to reset lost or forgotten administrator password on any ASUS laptop running Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP.

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2 Options to Recover Windows Product Key from Dead or Unbootable PC

May 27th, 2013 by Admin

How to recover Windows product key in the event your computer won’t boot? In one of my previous post I wrote how to recover Windows product key, but it requires that you are able to boot normally into Windows. What to do if your computer has already crashed? In this article we’ll show you two options to help you recover Windows product key from a dead or unbootable computer.

Option 1: Connect your Dead or Unbootable Drive to Another Working PC

Simply take the hard drive out of your dead or unbootable computer, then attach it to another working computer as a slave (or secondary) drive. Using KeyFinder Plus program you can easily recover lost Windows and software product keys from the Windows registry file on your dead or unbootable hard drive. Follow these steps:

  1. Launch KeyFinder Plus and then click on “Start Recovery” button.

  2. Choose the “From non-booting system” option from the drop-down menu, a new dialog box will appear.
  3. Click the “…” button to specify the SOFTWARE registry file of your dead or unbootable hard drive, which is present in the Windows\System32\Config folder. Click OK.

  4. The program will now show you all the product keys that it is able to find from your broken computer which makes it very handy when needing to re-install.

Option 2: Using a Key Finder Bootable CD

PCUnlocker is the ultimate rescue & recovery bootdisk which can not only be used to reset forgotten Windows admin/user password, but also recover lost Windows product key from crashed or dead computer.

  1. Boot your target computer from PCUnlocker Live CD, which can be created by following this tutorial.
  2. When the PCUnlocker program starts, click the Options button at the bottom left corner and then select “Find Product Key“.

  3. In the popup window, you’ll see a list of product keys which are recovered from your Windows installation. Click on Save.

  4. Browse to a location where you want to save the product keys. It could be your external USB flash drive.

Conclusion

There are many other ways to recover lost Windows product keys from a dead or unbootable computer, but these two method above should be the best and the easiest ones. The key finder programs mentioned above support the product key recovery for Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Microsoft Office and many other softwares.

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How to Reset Windows 2003 Domain Administrator Password After Forgotten

May 27th, 2013 by Admin

I am trying get an unused Windows 2003 server up and running, it booted fine but I was greeted with the login window and none of the known passwords seem to work. The server I am trying to get to work is a domain controller and has not been used in a long time. How to recover or reset the forgotten domain administrator password?

Have you forgotten your domain administrator password? Do you need to reset the password in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory? Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us and you are not alone. In this article we’ll explain how to easily reset Windows 2003 domain administrator password after forgotten. This requires you to gain physical access to the domain controller that you are locked out of.

How to Reset Windows 2003 Domain Administrator Password After Forgotten?

Step #1: Download the Reset Windows Password package and save it on any computer which you can log on as administrator. extract the ResetWindowsPwd.zip file and it contains an ISO image file. Burn the ISO file to a CD or USB flash drive using ISO2Disc utility.

Step #2: Now start the Windows 2003 system which you want to reset the domain admin password by putting the CD or the USB in the computer. While start up you have to make sure that it boots up from the correct device i.e. from the CD or the USB. In order to do this go to your BIOS settings and change the boot order as CD or USB drive as the first option. Or if you know the Boot menu key then press it and boot from the correct device.

Step #3: After booting from the CD or the USB, the Reset Windows Password program will launch after one or two minutes. Click on the “Reset Active Directory Password” option, it automatically searches your 2003 Active Directory database and shows you a list of domain user accounts.

Step #4: Choose the domain administrator account from the list, and then click on “Reset Password” button. It will unlock/reset your forgotten Windows 2003 domain administrator password in no time.

Step #5: Now restart the computer and remove the CD/USB drive. When you reach the Windows 2003 login screen, you can log in to the domain administrator account using the new password: Password123. It’s so easy!

Conclusion

So this is how can you reset lost Windows 2003 domain administrator password. You can also use the CD/USB drive you’ve created above to reset forgotten local administrator password on Windows 2003. Enjoy it!

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How to Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive

May 27th, 2013 by Admin

Windows XP is an old yet one of the most preferred operating systems. Recently I got an email from one of our customers who wanted some help in installing Windows XP from USB flash drive. If your computer doesn’t come with a CD drive or the CD drive is not in a working condition, the only alternative to install Windows XP is by using a USB flash drive. In this tutorial we’ll walk you through how to install Windows XP from USB flash drive.

How to Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive?

This procedure allows you to create a bootable USB flash drive which acts exactly same with the XP installation CD. After a bootable Windows XP installation USB drive is ready, you can plug it into any computer and start the installation of Windows XP immediately.

1. Firstly, download the software Win to Flash from here. Just double-click the setup file to install it. During installation, when asked for licence key, press ‘exit’ to use this tool for free.

2. After installing, run this tool and select ‘Windows Setup Transfer Wizard’, then click Next.

wintoflash

3. In this step, you have to select the source of Windows XP installation disk and the destination USB flash drive that you want to use for installing Windows XP. If you have only a Windows XP ISO image, you could uncompress the ISO image and then specify the output folder as the Windows files path. Click Next.

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4. The tool will then start formatting your USB drive and transfer your Windows XP installation files into the USB flash drive. After the process gets completed, your USB flash drive is ready to install Windows XP!

5. Now bring the USB flash drive to the computer that you want to do a clean install of Windows XP on. Turn on the computer and get it to boot from your USB flash drive. If you don’t know how to do this, please refer to this article: How to Set Your Computer to Boot from CD or USB Drive.

6. Once the system boots from the USB flash drive, you’ll see a list of boot options: one is Text mode setup, while another is GUI mode setup + 1st start of windows. Here, you must select the first option. During the installation process, the computer will restart itself and then, you have to select the second option as the booting medium.

7. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Install Windows XP from that USB flash drive same as you install from an optical CD drive.

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Forgot Windows 7 Password on Your HP Laptop

May 26th, 2013 by Admin

I bought A Windows 7 HP laptop about a year ago. It has a finger swipe to gain access to your account just the same as using a password. Using the finger swipe so much I have forgot my password, is there a way to reset it without knowing your current password?

Forgot Windows 7 password on your HP laptop? Is there any way to bypass or reset the login password when you are locked out of Windows 7? When you come here, you might have tried everything to get into your HP laptop but still to no avail. In this article we’ll explain how to reset forgotten Windows 7 password on any HP laptop. This also works with both HP desktop and netbook computers.

How to Reset Forgotten Windows 7 Password on Your HP Laptop?

Before resetting HP password, you need to make a password recovery boot disc on another computer that you can access to. Simply boot your locked HP laptop from the boot disc and it enables you to reset forgotten Windows 7 password in no time. The whole recovery procedure can be divided into two steps. Let’s proceed.

Part 1: Create a Password Recovery Boot Disc

  1. Download Password Recovery Bundle and save it to any computer with internet access. After installing, launch the program and click on Windows Password button, and you’ll get the interface as follow.

    Create a Windows Password Reset Disk

  2. Place a blank CD on the CD tray, and then click on Refresh button and select the device you just plug in. Click on Start Burn button to begin the burning process. A password recovery boot disc will be ready after a few minutes.

Part 2: Reset Forgotten Windows 7 Password on HP Laptop

  1. Insert the password recovery boot disc into your locked HP laptop.
  2. To access the Boot Device Options window, turn on the computer and immediately press the Esc key to display the Boot Menu. Use the arrow key to select CD-ROM drive and press Enter.

    Boot Menu

  3. The computer begins to boot from the CD, and after a few minutes you’ll reach the main window of Reset Windows Password program.

    Reset Windows Password

  4. Choose the user account you would like to reset the password for and then click on Reset button. The program will unlock/remove your forgotten HP login password immediately

Now you’ve successfully reset your forgotten Windows 7 password. Restart the computer and remove the password recovery boot disc. When you reach the Windows 7 login screen, you can then log in to your user account using a blank/empty password.

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How to Find Lost Office 2003 Product Key (CD Key)

May 26th, 2013 by Admin

I have a legal copy of Office 2003 on my desktop that was validated and all updates installed. I am getting ready to do a fresh OS install (XP Pro) and cannot find the original Office 2003 product key. Does the key reside anywhere in the system such that I can retrieve it before reformatting the hard drive and starting the system reload?

Lost your Office 2003 product key? If you decide to reinstall Microsoft Office 2003 and you’ve lost your product key (CD key), Product Key Finder can find out the CD key of your PC’s currently installed version of Windows and Microsoft Office. Office 2003 product key is encrypted inside the Windows registry so finding it manually is nearly impossible. With Product Key Finder you can extract and recover your lost Office 2003 product key easily.

How to Find Lost Office 2003 Product Key (CD Key)?

Download and install Product Key Finder, then launch it. From the main screen, click on the “Start Recovery” Button. It will offer you 3 options to retrieve your lost product key:

  • From current system
  • From non-booting system
  • From remote computer

The first option allows you to find the product keys for Windows, Office and other software installed on your local computer. The other two options enable you to retrieve product keys for external hard drive and network computers.

The software automatically searches all editions of Microsoft Office that are installed on your computer and locate your Microsoft Office product key for you. So this is how can you find lost Office 2003 product key. Remember that once you have retrieved your product key, be sure to keep it in a safe place for future use.

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Recover Lost Software Serial Numbers Using the Best Serial Key Finder

May 24th, 2013 by Admin

Have you ever lost a software serial number or key code? Misplacing a serial key is one of the common issues for computer users. Luckily, there is a simple solution to grab your license key from the Windows registry. Product Key Finder is the best serial key finder software which allows you to recover lost serial numbers for Windows, Microsoft Office and many other software.

How to Recover Lost Software Serial Numbers Using Serial Key Finder?

Product Key Finder is the perfect tool to recover Microsoft serial numbers or registration keys besides other Windows software. It’s a small utility, super fast, and easy to use. Just a few mouse clicks and it will find compatible software installed on your PC and decrypt the keys for you.

Simply download and install Product Key Finder on your computer. After installing, run the program. Click on “Start Recovery” button, it will display a list of recovery options:

  • From current system
  • From non-booting system
  • From remote computer

If you’ve chosen the first option, the program will automatically search the Windows registry on your local computer, and then decrypt and find your Windows serial keys and serial numbers of other software installed on your local computer.

The other two options allow you to recover software serial keys from external hard drive or remote network computers. This is a service not provided by other regular serial key finder software.

Conclusion

Should you find that you have lost the keys for some of your software, chances are you can recover the serial numbers or key codes. You could either search the Windows registry, which stores serial numbers, or follow this tutorial to look up your lost serial keys.

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How to Reset Lost Parental Controls Password in Windows 8/7/Vista

May 24th, 2013 by Admin

Using parental controls in Windows 8/7/Vista, you can control the times that your children can use your computer, the kinds of games they can play, and the programs they can access. If you realize that you have forgotten your parental controls password, then you are unable to log on the administrator account and change the parental controls settings. In this article we’ll explain how to reset lost parental controls password in Windows 8, 7 and Vista.

How to Reset Lost Parental Controls Password in Windows 8/7/Vista?

To disable or make some changes with your parental controls settings, you’ll need to log on the computer with administrator account. In case you lost or forgot your admin password, you can reset it easily by following these steps:

  1. Download the self-extracting Zip file of Reset Windows Password package.
  2. Unzip the download file, there is a bootable ISO image: ResetWindowsPwd.iso. Burn it onto a blank CD/DVD or USB stick using ISO2Disc or any CD/DVD burning software you like.
  3. Boot the computer with parental controls enabled from the Live CD/USB drive you’ve burned.
  4. Wait until the boot process is complete. When a window pops up with all your Windows accounts, select the administrator user account and then click the Reset Password button.

    Reset Windows Password

  5. The program will unlock and reset your lost administrator password immediately.
  6. Take out the Live CD/USB drive and restart the computer, you can then log in to the administrator account without entering a password.

So this is how can you reset lost parental controls password in Windows 8, 7 and Vista. If you are very tech savvy and need to recover the original administrator password without resetting it, you can try the free Windows password recovery software: Ophcrack.

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