Don’t let the name scare you: John the Ripper is a reputable password recovery tool available for Unix, macOS, Windows, and others. The free version is only available in source code, which isn’t well ...

If you’ve forgotten your Windows password, there are several utilities to reset it. One of them is Windows’ own System Recovery Disk. As a side note, this password reset trick, which takes just ten ...

We’ve all been there before. You put a brand-spanking-new password on your Windows computer, then promptly continue to use it without rebooting for several weeks ...

The Windows 10 login password went amiss for Albert Pye and about a dozen others who wrote to me saying they couldn’t log into their PCs. In every instance they had not touched their computer nor ...

A: The way to restore lost Windows passwords depends on several factors, including the version of Windows you’re running, the type of user accounts you have chosen to create, and whether you’ve taken ...

In this world now, everything is password protected, your phone, computer, e-mails, and whatnot. And remembering so many passwords can be difficult sometimes. What’s more, you cannot have a simple ...

These articles are brought to you in association with Pocket-lint and our partners. In the early days of the internet, creating and remembering passwords didn’t ...

In order to take full advantage of all the features of Windows 11, you need a Microsoft account. (It’s possible to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account, but the company doesn’t want that and is ...