How to Reset / Recover Forgotten Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003 Administrator Password

 Many times we face this problem when we or our friends forget Windows XP password and can't log into Windows. So here we are posting a few methods / utilities which can be used to recover Windows password:

    1st Method: The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account ""Administrator"" and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:

    Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type ""Administrator"" (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.

    Now you can reset your account password from ""Control Panel -> User Accounts"".

    Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

    2nd Method: Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten password by using ""Reset Disk"". If you created a Password Reset Disk in past, you can use that disk to reset the password.

    3rd Method:In fact, there are some convenience ways to help us to be far from that nightmare, as long as you paste "windows password", "xp password", "administrator password", "vista password", "windows xp password", "forgot windows password", "windows administrator password", "windows password recovery", "windows password reset", "windows password Recovery", ect to google, there would be many related results. One of the most reliable way is to take use of windows password Recovery which is a current windows tool for empty or reset windows password for PC users even computer freshman. With windows password Recovery, just a few steps, you can re-login your PC without any data loss.

    Step1. Download Spower Windows Password Reset and save it to your hard disk. Take note of what folder you saved the file in.

    Step2. Burn the downloaded ISO file onto a CD. * To burn your CD, you'll need a blank CD-R . * If you are familiar with burning .iso image files you may use any software you already have such as Nero, Sonic, Roxio etc.

    Step 3. Put in your newly created CD and remove your Windows password.

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Repairing Database and Tables

MyISAM was the default storage engine for the MySQL. It is based on the older ISAM code but has many useful extensions. The major deficiency of MyISAM is the absence of transactions support. Versions of MySQL 5.5 and greater have switched to the InnoDB engine to ensure referential integrity constraints, and higher concurrency.

Each MyISAM table is stored on disk in three files. The files have names that begin with the table name and have an extension to indicate the file type. MySQL uses a .frm file to store the definition of the table, but this file is not a part of the MyISAM engine; instead it is a part of the server. The data file has a .MYD (MYData) extension. The index file has a .MYI (MYIndex) extension.

I will now show how to repair the corrupted databases and tables. Usually the mysql files are stored in /var/lib/mysql. Hence navigate your way to the this location.


$ cd /var/lib/mysql
You can find all the databases in the server as folders in this location and enter the folder of the corrupted database.
$ cd db_name
To check and automatically repair all tables
$  myisamchk --silent --force --fast --update-state *.MYI.

If you only want to repair a specific table give the command below:
$ myisamchk -r table_name.MYI

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Alarm function in Fedora

If you ever wondered how to set alarm or reminder in your fedora or any other red hat flavor Linux machine, here is your solution. You will need to install a package of kde which can be also used in gnome. kalarm is the name of the program.

Take terminal.
Login to root:
$ su -

Install the package kdepim.
$ yum install kdepim-4.4.6-2.fc14

Now you can access kalarm from Applications --> Accessories --> kalarm

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