Can I Unlock My Laptop with Another Computer

Can I Unlock My Laptop with Another Computer

Q: I forgot Windows 8 password and locked out of my Asus laptop. Can I unlock my laptop with another computer?

R: Of course you can. It’s easy to unlock a laptop with the help of anyone computer with internet access and administrator privilege. Following let’s see how to do it.

What you need: A USB flash drive or CD/DVD drive

One computer with administrator privilege and internet access

Your locked laptop

Key steps to unlock laptop:

1. Create a password reset disk on another computer

2. Boot locked laptop from disk3. Reset Windows password on locked

laptop

Detailed steps to unlock a laptop with another computer

OK, let’s begin!

Step 1:Create a password reset disk on another computer

1. On anyone computer with administrator and internet access, download, install, and run iSumsoft Windows Password Refixer.

Download link:

2. Choose one media type. Here I will choose USB device.

3. Insert a USB flash drive into the computer. Then select the drive from the drop down, and click on the Begin burning button.

4. Click on Yes to format the USB drive.

5. Quickly it will prompt the Burning Successfully dialog, which tells it burns Windows Password Refixer tool into this flash drive and you’ve got a password reset disk.

Step 2: Boot locked laptop from password reset disk

1. Take out the password reset USB disk from that computer and connect the disk to the locked laptop.

2. Start or restart locked laptop and set laptop to boot from USB drive.

Tips: Learn how to boot a computer/ laptop from USB drive from the page:

Step 3: Reset password and Unlock laptop

It’s time to unlock your laptop!

1. Once locked laptop boots up from this disk, iSumsoft Windows Password Refixer will be running. It displays Windows running on laptop and all users on Windows.

2. Select the locked Windows running on your laptop and the password forgotten user, then click on the Reset Password button. It will ask if you want to reset this user password to blank, just click on Yes to confirm.

3. The user password will be immediately reset to blank. Then click on the Reboot button and eject the password reset disk.

At this point, your laptop gets unlocked. And you can get into laptop without password.

That’s it! You unlock your laptop with another computer.