Windows 8 In Depth

Before You Forget Your Password

If you use a Microsoft (online) account, as discussed in the previous section, and you forget your password, you can go online to reset your password and regain access to your computer accounts—if you can get to your email. If you can’t, you may be out of luck.

And if you use a local account and forget your account’s password, you could be in serious trouble. On a corporate domain network, you can ask your network administrator to save you. However, on a home computer or in a small office, forgetting your password is serious. It can put your encrypted files at risk, and you could lose any passwords that you’ve stored for automatic use on websites. (Do you even remember them all?)

You can use another Computer Administrator ...