Recovering a Lost User Account Password in Windows Vista

Despite attracting a few criticisms, Windows Vista continues to be a fairly sought after OS of the times, thanks to its highly impressive GUI. The ‘desktop gadgets’ and ‘exploding icons’ were indeed turning points as far as appealing GUIs are concerned, and have been followed suit in Windows 7 as well.

In this post, the Windows Vista help team gives you a comprehensive account on how to recover your lost user account password in Windows Vista.

Windows Password Recovery

User Accounts and Passwords in Windows Vista

Just like other Windows platforms, Vista allows you to create and use multiple user accounts under a unique ID or password. And as you might know well, only one user can be given the privileges of an administrator, and others are provided the facility to create and maintain their respective accounts by means of a password.

Forgetting or losing passwords is not a rare affair. Most of us would’ve had such annoying experiences at some point or the other. However, losing your Windows Vista user account password is not something that is easily manageable. And if you’re one of those unfortunate folks faced with such an issue, there’s no reason to worry; as you’ve knocked at the right door for assistance. The below given procedure would let you recover your lost Vista password.

How to Recover a Lost Password?

According to the Windows Vista help team, the following steps are in order for resolving the issue in question:

1. Commence the procedure by clicking on the “Start” menu and selecting the option “Control Panel”.
2. As you enter the Control Panel window, click on the option that reads “User Accounts and Family Safety“.
3. Click on the link “User Accounts”. In the subsequent window, click on the option “Create a Password Reset Disk” under the “Task” section, whereby the “Forgotten Password Wizard” shall be launched.
4. In the Forgotten Password Wizard window, click on “Next”.
5. As the Windows Vista help team says, you may now insert the media device you wish to use as your password key disk. Click on the drop down menu to select the same.
6. Type your password in the “Current User Account Password” field and choose “Next”.
7. Label the disc and click on “Finish”.

Well, that’s it! You’ve successfully recovered your Windows Vista user account password.

Setting Windows Vista to Remember your Password for Outlook

Windows Vista continues to be a fairly sought after OS of the times, thanks to its mind blowing GUI. As Vista was Microsoft’s first attempt to explore the possibilities of impressive GUIs, there are quite a few issues that we’ve encountered with it.

And in this post, the Windows Vista help team gives you a comprehensive account on how to set your Windows Vista OS to remember the password for your Microsoft Outlook program.

The Need to Remember Passwords

Across dozens of programs and online apps, you would’ve set an ‘n’ number of passwords; and memorising all of them is not at all an easy task. And this is the

Recover Lost Outlook Password on Vista

very reason why you’ve been provided with the option to ‘remember password’ in your apps.

Microsoft Outlook is one such program, for which you would’ve to enter your password frequently. As the Windows Vista help team says, the program is designed such that, you’ve to provide your password every time it sends or receives email messages. Frequent password prompts are by no means a comfortable affair. Even though you could set the program to remember your password; while switching on to a new OS, it’s quite likely that you may not be able to avail of this option.

How to make Vista Remember your Outlook Password?

According to the Windows Vista help team, the following steps are in order for addressing the issue in question:

1. Commence the procedure by ensuring that the “Remember Password” option is enabled in your Microsoft Outlook program.
2. Launch your Outlook program and click on “Tools”, followed by “Accounts Settings”.
3. You may now double click on the email account that is causing you the issue at hand.
4. In the “Change Email Account” dialog box that appears, check mark the option that reads “Remember password”.
5. Choose “Next”, followed by “Finish”.
6. In case the above steps don’t help you fix the problem, navigate via the following directory:

C:\users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect

1. Once you enter the Protect folder, select and delete the contained “Protect” file.
2. Reopen your Microsoft Outlook program to verify whether the issue has been resolved.

Well, that’s it! You’ve successfully set your Windows Vista OS to remember your Microsoft Outlook password.

For any further assistance, do get in touch with Windows Vista help.

For any further assistance, do get in touch with Windows Vista help.