How to Remove Windows® Vista Password?

Passwords are very important for security purpose and everyone keeps a strong password for their computers. If you want to delete the user password in Windows Vista, you can easily do it. Windows Vista is not very different from Windows XP and you can do the same process you are doing for Windows XP. Sometime there are other reasons like you are restoring back an old computer that has not been used since a long time and you have forgotten the password. It is very easy to reset it if it is a standard user password. You can log in as an administrator and change the password. But in the case of an administrator password, it is very tough to reset and you will be required to have more technical knowledge. In Windows Vista, you will be able to reset the passwords to regain control over the computer. In this article we will discuss how to remove Windows Vista password.

Follow the instructions given below.

Step 1:

The first step is to click on the ‘Start’ button and go to the ‘Control Panel.’

Step 2:

In the ‘Control Panel’ option, click on the ‘User’s account’ and then select the family safety link. Try to make sure that the ‘Control Panel’ view should not be in the classic view. If it is then you will not be able to see this link.

Step 3:

Now simply double click the ‘User Accounts’ link and go to the ‘Make changes to your user account’ area of the user account window. After that click the ‘Remove your password’ link.

Step 4:

After performing this step you will get the next screen and in the text box just enter your current password.

Step 5:

Now you just have to click the ‘Remove password’ button to confirm that you had like to remove your current account password.

Step 6:

Now you can close the user account window. After doing all these steps you have deleted your Windows Vista account password. Now whenever you log on to Windows Vista you can start the computer without entering the password. Windows will automatically load and start.

Using the steps given above you will be able to remove the user password from Windows Vista. These steps are useful for Windows XP and Windows 7 also. Password deletion and setting a password in Windows is really a very easy task. You can just do that by some clicks. It is also a very easy task to recover the password if you forgot it. We also recommend you to configure Windows Vista to automatically login if you do not want to completely remove the passwords. To recover a password you can also use password recovery programs easily available on the Internet.