Here are some tips if ever you fall into an “I forgot my windows password” situation. The first thing to do is to refer to the clues first, before anything else. It it essential that before you risk your computer with different procedures, you have to try the traditional way first. For example, if your clue is your hometown name, maybe you just added some relevant numbers like your street or birthday. Try as much as you can.
If time is of the essence, and there are a lot of pending work to do, you can opt to reboot from a disc or a flash drive. There are many internet instructions that run it step by step.
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