Your Windows login acts as a barrier to hackers and a defense against accidental intrusion, data manipulation, and accidental keyboard swipes by family members and coworkers who might be using your computer. Your Windows login works with other security features of the Windows operating system and any third-party software you might be using.

What happens if you forget your password? How do you get into your computer? If you reinstall Windows, you will also erase all of your customized settings and data. So you don’t want to do that. However, there are other ways to reset your password.

Hopefully you have another computer with administrator rights to perform the initial steps of resetting your password, as you do not have access to that machine.

The first thing you need to do is download Ubuntu Desktop if you don’t have it already. You can download it for free from the official Ubuntu website.