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In my HP Laptop, I use both password and fingerprint for login. Unfortunalely i did not use my laptop long while. now I forgot my password. still i can able to access my system using my fingureprint.

The issue is some times the fingureprint not working properly. Now I forced to reset my password or recover my old password. Even I prefere to recover my old password. Any one help me here please?

I use Windows7 64 bit.

Thanks in Advance.

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  • Do you have an admin account? – RogUE May 28 '15 at 14:48
  • If you have an admin account, I think you can change the password without knowing the current password. – RogUE May 28 '15 at 14:54
  • I was able to use my print to [view current stored passwords in HP Client Security](https://superuser.com/questions/952328/view-passwords-in-hp-client-security/959600#959600) but not the Windows one. Maybe useful if you unwisely share passwords. – Cees Timmerman Aug 20 '15 at 08:17

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This solution works if you have an admin account, or you can borrow the rights(not sure about the later):

  • Log in to your pc
  • Open a command prompt window with admin privileges (how to open cmd with admin rights)
  • Type net user
  • Look for your user account (or the account whose password you have to change)
  • Type net user {username}, replace username with the account user name. eg. net user john
  • Typenet user {username} *, for example net user john *
  • Type in the new password, press enter
  • Retype it and hit enter

Read it from Microsoft. A little bit more information.

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  • I am not getting any inormation. here is the `cmd output: ` C:\Windows\system32>net user User accounts for \\INCHCMLP01756 -------------------------------------------------------- admin Administrator Guest The command completed successfully. C:\Windows\system32>net user {mb112830} The user name could not be found. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2221.` – 3gwebtrain May 28 '15 at 15:29
  • The out put isn't clear, wht was the output when you tried the **net userusrname * ** – RogUE May 28 '15 at 15:39
  • @3gwebtrain Did you run it from an Admin cmd? – RogUE May 28 '15 at 15:43
  • yes, I am a administrator. I run cmd using admin rights. leave it all, is there a way to see the current password being used? – 3gwebtrain May 28 '15 at 16:17
  • I have heard you can,There is a Linux distro caled Kali Linux, specially created for penetration testing, it has tools to do this. But I do not think it is worth doing so. – RogUE May 28 '15 at 16:27
  • oh.. any other way to get my password here? – 3gwebtrain May 28 '15 at 16:28
  • [This](http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/) is one of the tools it uses. But I haven't tried it and you can only find the password if it's a common one because it uses rainbowtables, not brute force. – RogUE May 28 '15 at 16:29
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/24219/discussion-between-3gwebtrain-and-rogue). – 3gwebtrain May 28 '15 at 16:29
  • I you do not mind, execute the command **net user [usrname]**, and look for this line _User may change password_, what does it say? – RogUE May 28 '15 at 16:31
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One time when the Fingerprint works to log in navigate back to the user info and change password.

Once you are logged in you need not remember the pass to reset it (unless 8.1 / 10 changed that)

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  • I am trying to reset my password, but i am asking to fill my `current` password. where can i see the user info? – 3gwebtrain May 28 '15 at 14:58
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You can use lusrmgr.msc tool.

  1. Press Windows + R to open Run prompt.
  2. Type lusrmgr.msc in the box and click OK
  3. Select Users on the left panel.
  4. Right click on the user you want and click Change Password.
  5. Follow the instructions.
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