MANUAL

Introduction
The increasing use of the Internet and IT (Information Technology) in people's
lives has led computer users to acquire a huge number of accounts to give
access to web sites and systems which provide services ranging from pure
recreational to financial. The 2002 NTA Monitor Password Survey found that the
typical IT user has 21 accounts, and the trend is that this number increases as
the number of available services also increases.
The access to those services is usually provided via a user name and password
pair, and Microsoft also adopted this authentication scheme to protect each of
the system's users' private data.
With a huge number of accounts to remember, it's not uncommon that users
forget the password required to access a given service. While it's easy to
recover lost passwords on most web sites, in Windows only Administrators have
the necessary privilege to change other users' passwords and help them regain
access to their accounts. If the Administrator herself forgets her own password,
not only she will loose access to her private data, but also important system
maintenance procedures, such as system backup, virus removal and users'
password recovery, including her own, cannot be executed.
Because of the above, forgetting the Administrator's password usually leads to a
full system reinstall. This procedure is time-consuming, requiring the installation
of all previously installed software and the recover of backups.
Fortunately, Password-Reset can easily help Administrators to reset their
passwords and regain access to their accounts without the need of system
reinstalls.
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