107 - Newbie Password Reset Disk Windows 7 Starter Netbook

107 - A Newbie (Noob) makes a Password Reset Disk on a Windows 7 Starter Netbook
==== written Sept.25.2011 by JCPMA

When Windows XP was young, I stumbled upon the feature "create a Password Reset Disk". I had all but forgotten about this until recently when I looked at my Windows 7 Starter netbook God-mode folder. One of the shortcuts "create a Password Reset Disk", in this folder is categorized under User Accounts. What this does is, for 1% of netbook owners is to make a floppy disk with a file unique unique to your netbook. The file is "userkey.psw" and it is 2 KB in size.This floppy disk is used so you can gain easy access to your netbook and account in the unlikely scenario where you forget your logon password. For the remaining 99% of netbook users who don't own an external floppy disk drive, this feature will create the userkey.psw file onto a USB flash drive.

Access this feature by going to: Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts > click on the left link "Create a password reset disk".

Note: You can only make 1 Reset USB disk (or Floppy disk) at a time. If you choose to make another one, Windows informs you that it will invalidate the first one that was created.

Future posts
(On previous posts I wrote "A Newbie (Noob) Uses Ten Tweaks on a Windows 7 Starter Netbook" & "Changing the color of the desktop of a Windows 7 Starter netbook")