On the first day after your vacation, you sit down at your PC, type in the password — and fail. Windows says: “The password is incorrect. Please repeat the process” and expects you to click “OK.” ...

Lately, it seems the more Windows computers I work on, the more users have forgotten their password, or they didn’t tell me the password, and when I can’t reach them, I am stuck with no option to get ...

Even though it can be difficult to retrieve a lost password, it can be done. PC World guides you through a number of approaches to solve your problem. PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to ...