windows 8 password reset

A friend of mine has accidentally lost her windows 8 password. I tried booting a live USB Hiren's & Windows windows unlocker enterprise (windows xp based live disks). The problem is that the normal mode is UEFI based (in BIOS) and it does not allow to boot Legacy OS (like xp). But when I enable "legacy mode", it disables the UEFI mode so Rescue CD's dont show the internal hard disk of laptop.

Any help ?

Answer

What you could try, is boot into a Ubuntu Live OS and:

1. Rename C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe to C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe.bak


2. Rename C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe to C:\windows\system32\Utilman.exe


3. Load back into windows, and click the 'Ease of access' button on the logon screen, and command promt should now open.


4. Type: net user ###### * (replace hashes with the username)


5. Give them a new password