I forgot my Windows 10 password and no reset disk

I upgrade my Dell laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10, so still login to Windows 10 with local account. I often work on my office, I nearly don’t use my home laptop. On Sunday, I opened my laptop and enter the password to get into. However, I got the message saying that ‘the user password is incorrect’. I tried with other several possible passwords that I could remember, but nothing happens, only blocked me out of Windows with the incorrect message.

I thought I forgot my Windows 10 password. I searched for the solutions from internet with my phone. The following methods ware searched from internet:

Sign in with another account

This method suggests me to sign into my Windows laptop with other administrator account, such as the built-in Administrator account, or sign into Windows 10 with the other sign-in options, and then reset my user account password. But, unfortunately, I only created one local account on my Dell laptop, so there is no other account or sign-in options to get into my computer.

Reset Windows 10 forgotten password with password reset disk

This method is also very easy. Go to the logon screen, and enter the incorrect password to login again, when get the password incorrect message, click on OK, and click on Reset password, insert the password reset disk and follow the instructions to reset forgotten password. But what frustrated me is that I don’t have the password reset disk. I am so regret that I didn’t create a password reset disk on my laptop before. I forgot my Windows 10 password and have no reset disk, how to unlock my laptop?

Unlock with a USB disk

I got the suggest to create a Windows 10 installation disk or a password recovery disk with a USB from another computer. The Dell laptop is the only one computer at home, so, I took my laptop to my office on the next day. Unlock Windows 10 password with the installation disk is so complex, so I choose to create a password recovery disk.
To create a password recovery disk with USB, I needed to download a password recovery tool. There are many password recovery tools to choose. I got the Cocosenor Windows Password Tuner Standard to have a try.

1. Download the Cocosenor Windows Password Tuner Standard tool and install it on my office’s computer.
2. Insert a USB drive. (I needed to remove the data from my USB drive and restore it on the computer, or the data on it will be formatted.)
3. I select the USB device, and Begin burning it to a password recovery disk. (It is very easy.)
   
   
   
4. After burning successfully, I take it insert into my locked Dell laptop.
5. Start my Dell laptop, and press the F12 key on keyboard repeatedly for several seconds. (On different brands of PC devices, the Boot Menu keys are varied.)
6. When the Boot Menu screen opens, I choose the USB flash drive, and press Enter to boot my laptop from the USB Flash drive.
   
   
   
7. After a while the Cocosenor Windows Password Tuner Standard program starts, I select the Windows 10 system, and my user account. Click on Reset Password, click on Yes to accept it. Click on Reboot, take out the USB drive, click on Yes to go on.
8. At this time, my laptop boot to the start screen, and my laptop get into Windows without entering password. I was so excited that my laptop was unlock successfully!

How to Manage iCloud Storage on iPhone 7 and 7 Plus?

iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus starts with storage 32GB, which is larger than previous iPhone that starts with storage 16GB. iCloud is an important tool for backing up and securely stored the valuable and precious data in iPhone 7 as well as shared them everywhere. Apple offers you 5GB space for free, if the iCloud storage is run out, your new pictures and videos on your iPhone 7 won't upload and back up to iCloud. iCloud drive and other iCloud apps won't update across your iPhone 7. When you send or receive email, system will remind you there isn't enough space. Hereon, you can learn how to manage iCloud storage on iPhone 7.

You are able to manage iCloud storage in two ways:

• Upgrade your iCould storage plan, you can upgrade to 50GB, 200GB, 1TB or 2TB on monthly subscription.

• Make more space by deleting backups, documents, photos, and emails that you don’t need any longer.


You can check how much iCloud storage you have by navigate to Settings > iCloud > Storage
Please bear in mind: before you delete any data and documents, please make sure you've already backed up the data and documents in your iCloud.

How to Build A Password Dictionary Txt For Password Recovery

A powerful dictionary could be a useful tool for us to recover a password when we use dictionary attack to recover the forgotten password. So it's important for us to build a password dictionary txt for password recovery.

1. What Should Be Contained In The Dictionary

The characters you should write on the dictionary is the most important content, here are some suggestion:

1. The most common password,
    such as 123, 1234, 12345, 123456, 123456789, abc, abcd, ABC, ABCD, abc123, ABC123, 111111, QWERTY, password, password123...

You can search " Top 100 Most Common Passwords " or " Most Common Passwords " on  Google to get more common passwords and put them in the dictionary.

2. Special characters and combination.
   Name, nick name, birthday, phone number, home call number, license plate number and room number of you, and/or your family. Take care of the uppercase and lowercase. You'd better take the combination of them as possible password. Example as follow:

John, john, JOHN, John1980, john1980, JOHN1980, 19800821, 83183668, john 83183668 , DXT2766, DXT-2766, dxt2766, dxt-2766, johndxt2766, john809.

3. The special thing or name you love mostly, such as your pet, person, movie, actor, stars etc.

4.  Get the dictionary from password recovery software. Basically, a password recovery software will contain one or more dictionary. You can download the password recovery software, install it, and then search ".txt" ,"dictionary" or ".dict" on installation directory to find them.

2. How to use the dictionary on password recovery software

Now we take using a dictionary on Cocosenor iTunes Password Tuner as an example to explain how to use a dictionary.

Step 1: Download Cocosenor iTunes password Tuner and install it on your computer.

Step 2: Click "Open" and choose an encrypted iTunes backup.

Step 3: Set Type of attack to "Dictionary".

Step 4: Click "Dictionary" tab, and Click "Select Dictionary", and then choose the dictionary file you have created.

Step 5: Click "Start", the software will begin to work on password recovery. 

How to Backup Android Phone

Backing up the data in Android Smart Phone is important for us, in case of the data get lost. Now Android also has the function similar to iOS devices, or even better. In iPhone, user can back up the data with iCloud, in Android smart phone, like Huawei, Xiaomi, there is also a cloud service, the data like Contacts, Messaging, Photos, Videos, Screenshots, Call log, Notes, Audio, Calendar and other information will be automatically uploaded or updated. You can see the data when you log in the cloud service with account and password. 

Aside from backing up with cloud service, you also can back up the data in phone or the inserted SD card. Now we take a Huawei smart phone as an example, you will know how to back up the data. 

Step 1.  Tap Settings app, navigate to Advanced settings, find Backup & reset, tap Data backup. Or you can a desktop icon named "Backup", you will see the following window:

Step 2. Tap "Backup", you will have five options to back up the data. You can store the backup in SD card, internal storage, USB storage, Huawei Cloud Service or Computer.

Step 3. We choose backing up the data to internal storage as an example. When you tap Internal storage, then tap next, you will be able to back up the data.

If you want to store the backup in your computer, you can choose Computer, then download HiSuite--the Android Smart Device Manager from www.huawei.com/hisuite and install it in your computer, connect your smart phone to computer with included USB cable line. You can manage the data of your phone with HiSuite. 

How to Locate iTunes Backup on Your PC or Mac?

Backing up the data of our iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is of vital importance to us. After backing up, your computer saves backup in iTunes in your user folder. The location of the backup varies by operating system. In case of the data damaged and lost, please do not copy, edit, relocate or extract the contents from the backup. For some people, perhaps they are not quite familiar with locating the backup in their computer. Here you will know how to locate iTunes backup. 

1. Locate iTunes backup on Mac

i. Open iTunes. Navigate to iTunes > Preferences…

ii. The window of “Devices Preferences” will pop up, click “Devices” on the menu.

iii. Control-click the backup that you want, select “Show in Finder”, you will be able to see the backup.

Or you can have a second solution to find the backups:

Click the search icon   in the menu bar, enter ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, you also can find the backups you have made.

2. Locate iTunes backup on Windows 7,8 or 10

i. Open iTunes. Navigate to Edit > Preferences…

ii. The window of “Devices Preferences” will pop up, click “Devices” on the menu. When your mouse hovers on the backup, then you can see the backup information, which includes Model name, model identifier, software version, etc.

iii, Now you can go to C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup, there is a list of backups.

If you can’t find some file folders in your Windows, maybe the folder are hidden, you can navigate to Organize > Folder and search options.

A Window of “Folder Options” will pop on, tap “View”, find Hidden files and folders, select “Show hidden files, folders, and drivers”, you are able to see the hidden files.

Or you can follow these steps to find the backups:

• Find the Search bar:
• In Windows 7, click Start. 
• In Windows 8, click the magnifying glass in the upper-right corner.
• In Windows 10, click the Search bar next to the Start button.
• In the Search bar, enter %appdata%.
• Press Return.
• Double-click these folders: Apple Computer > MobileSync > Backup.