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Make a Pogostick bootable USB key and use this to reset the password to a new one.<br />
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<a href="https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html" rel="ugc">https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html</a>
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Make a Pogostick bootable USB key and use this to reset the password to a new one.

https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html [https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html]

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Yes, I understand. I don't want her to lose anything on the machine, especially the pictures. Having said that, your answer is the best solution and I agree with your assessment.
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Yes, I understand. I don't want her to lose anything on the machine, especially the pictures. Having said that, your answer is the best solution and I agree with your assessment.

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What are my options when I need to recover a forgotten password from a Windows 8 machine. I suspect that it is linked to a live account, but I'm not sure. I ran <b>Ophcrack</b> with <b>Vista proba free</b> tables, but no luck. I know that the site says it doesn't support Windows 8, but in separate threads I have read that there are people out there that have had success using Ophcrack on Windows 8. <br />
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I'm trying to help out a lady that forgot her password. All she wants from the machine are the photos of her baby daughter. Everything else is expendable.
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What are my options when I need to recover a forgotten password from a Windows 8 machine. I suspect that it is linked to a live account, but I'm not sure. I ran Ophcrack with Vista proba free tables, but no luck. I know that the site says it doesn't support Windows 8, but in separate threads I have read that there are people out there that have had success using Ophcrack on Windows 8. 

I'm trying to help out a lady that forgot her password. All she wants from the machine are the photos of her baby daughter. Everything else is expendable.

Recover Windows 8 Logon Password

Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, with an emphasis on improving its user experience on tablets. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, the Start screen, a new platform for developing apps with an emphasis on touchscreen input, integration with online services, support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing. Additional security features were introduced, such as built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering service and support for UEFI Secure Boot on supported devices with UEFI firmware.

Windows 8

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.