subject: Tips for Recovering Forgotten XP Passwords on Your PC : It's Not Hard to Forget Your XP Password [print this page] Tips for Recovering Forgotten XP Passwords on Your PC : It's Not Hard to Forget Your XP Password
Funny thing. In a recent article in PC Magazine, writer Tim Barjarin asks the philosophical question, "Is the PC dead?" Hard to believe a piece of hardware that sells over 330 million units a year would be considered dead. His reasoning is that as more people turn to their smart phones and tablets, the PC usefulness could diminish. Good point. But for most of us laboring on our PC's with the oldie but goodie Windows XP operating system, the PC is here to stay at least for the time being.
One of the more difficult challenges these days that PC users are faced with is keeping up with all the passwords they have to remember for the Windows accounts, online accounts and more. If you forgot your XP password, trying to work on your PC is going to be difficult.
A good product for PC users to have these days is a password recovery software -- perfect for anyone who has forgotten their XP password. The trick is to look for a product that is affordable and that will work on XP as well as other Windows products. Many of the premium products have a one-time cost and some even offer lifetime upgrades at no extra charge.
The software usually works this way:
Download the password recovery software
The software will then help you create a bootable CD or USB flash drive
Finally once the software has been loaded onto the CD or USB flash drive, you can use it to recover forgotten XP passwords as many times as you need.
While there are free services out there to recover forgotten XP passwords, you may want to take a closer look before downloading their software. First of all, some of the free services are difficult to use and secondly, many do not uncover passwords much longer than 10 characters. A few of the free products ask that you sign into Windows before it can uncover the forgotten XP password which sort of defeats the point. These products assume that maybe you have two or more Windows accounts. Most consumers or small business owners do not.
Either way, when considering what products out there for uncovering XP passwords you forgot, look for ease of use and the extras such as free lifetime upgrades and 24/7 technical support.
