Forgot your Windows Vista password? Don’t feel too bad, because you’re not alone. We should make our passwords hard to guess, but sometimes we make them so hard that no one, not even us, can remember them.

There are several ways to find your forgotten Vista password:

If you’ve ever created a Windows Vista password reset disk in the past, congratulations on being proactive! Now’s the time to use it.

Your password reset disk will still work even if you changed your Windows Vista password after creating it.