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MIGUEL DEC 19, 2016 16 COMMENTS

Today I’ll show you a procedure to reset the Windows 7 password by replacing the Sticky Keys application. The
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1. Restart the computer, when it restarts and you see the starting Windows with the logo, abruptly shut down the
computer and then started again.

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2. Once you start you’ll see lunch startup repair (recommended) select it and press enter. This will launch the
startup repair.

3. While in the Startup Repair a popup will come up asking if you would like to restore your computer using
System Restore, there select cancel.

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4. Continue with the Startup Repair. This window takes about 5 to 10 Minutes till the next window appear.

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5. If you are lucky you’ll get the Startup Repair popup window. Here click on the drop-down right beside
view problem details.

6. Scroll all the way down to the last link. Click on the last link to open a text file.

7. On the text file click on file on the top left corner to select open… from the drop-down menu.

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8. Click on Computer icon from the left pane and select local disk from the right pane. The drive letters have
changed around so make sure to locate local disk.

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9. Here Change the files of type select to All Files, then go to Windows folder.

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10. Now navigate to system 32 folder.

11. Look for sethc. Right-click and rename it to sethc0. Click away to save.

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12. Then look for CMD. right click copy CMD, scroll all the way down to paste it and create a copy.

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13. Once you created and copy renamed CMD to sethc click away to save.

14. Close all remaining windows and click on Finish. The computer will turn off. Re-Start the computer you still
can’t log-in but now we made some modification, we changed the sticky keys to command prompt.

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15. Press five times the shift key and the command prompt will appear, here type net user to show all users.

16. Here I only have one user Miguel, so now type ( net user username space * ) press enter

17. Here is going to ask you to type the password for that user, leave it blank for no password and press enter.

18. Once you press enter is going to ask you to confirm password since we left it blank just press enter again

19. Now the user has no password, close the command prompt and enter without password.

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Note: If you did everything, got to the command prompt and typed in net user and got a message about syntax..
no password then try Putting Names in double Quotes after net user should help.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MIGUEL

I started this tech blog back in 2011 as a place to write down processes I took to fix my client
systems and network. Now I write some tips and tricks to help others with the tech issues that one
might encounter.

16 COMMENTS

Asad Saleem June 19, 2015 at 5:46 pm

Thank you very much!

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Patrick June 24, 2015 at 5:06 pm

This process worked beautifully and took only about 25 minutes. Thank you for the help and keep it up.

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Darrell Hall August 9, 2016 at 3:29 pm

Worked great, but do I go back and change the files to thier original names?

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 Miguel August 9, 2016 at 5:02 pm

If you want to.

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john March 24, 2017 at 3:33 pm

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brilliant it worked!

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Sahil Akhtàr Choudhury May 15, 2017 at 10:19 pm

Awesome technique… It works

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Bonnie May 25, 2017 at 12:42 pm

Worked perfectly! Thanks so much!

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John Propst May 27, 2017 at 4:31 pm

I am trying to bypass the password logon on a Lenovo Laptop Windows 7 Enterprise. System 32 does
not have the ‘sethc’ nor ‘cmd’ files that are normally present.
Is it possible the Enterprise Win 7 version has a totally different system 32?
Do you have any suggestions to work around these issues.
They have removed the Win 7 Product Key from the case or I’d do a reinstall..
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
John

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 Miguel May 31, 2017 at 5:07 pm

this should work: http://www.avoiderrors.com/?p=20085

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Ram Eswar July 4, 2017 at 2:02 am

Thanks for giving the note: if that is not there I would broken my computer thank you very
much????????

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Mina August 4, 2017 at 4:20 pm

Does it work for windows 7 ultimate

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 Miguel August 4, 2017 at 5:18 pm

yes

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Skand September 12, 2017 at 5:00 pm

the start up repair option do not appear in later windows ! ! ! what to do ????????????????,

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 Miguel September 13, 2017 at 11:37 am

which version of Windows are you using?

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Jonnas February 7, 2018 at 12:12 pm

You r de best, thank you very much…

It worked perfectly..is there away I can see windows password…

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John March 17, 2018 at 1:42 am

WOW! You are amazing! Thank you so very much!

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