We often face situations where we forget Windows password or somebody had changed the password of our system. In such a situation either we have to install windows again or find a solution to reset the password so that we can use the system easily. In this post, I will show you how you can reset the password of Windows Vista easily with the help of your Flash Drive. The password reset file is of only 2Kb size so you can use flash drive with small storage capacity too. In this post I will use a Flash Drive of 1 GB.
How to Create Password Reset USB Flash Drive
First of all you have to create a password Reset disk, to create a password reset disk you must have an administrator account on Vista. Log in to your account and Follow these steps: –
Insert your USB Flash Drive in to the System
Once the Drive is ready to use, Click User Accounts and Family Safety link and then go to user Accounts.
On the left hand side you will see an option to create a Password Reset Disk as shown in Following Figure. Click on that link.
On Clicking that, you will see a Forgotten Password Wizard window appears, click Next . After that You need to select a portable media which in our case is our USB Flash drive as shown in Figure.
After that Click Next, and then it will ask for your current account password as shown in following figure.
After that Click Next, And Vista will start creating Password reset Disk, Once the status bar show 100% progress click Next and then Finish. Now you have your own Password Reset USB Drive which you can use to reset Password.
How to Use Password Reset USB Flash Drive
Now, you have your Password rest Flash Drive, You can use it in case when you forget your password.
On the Login screen, Insert Your USB Flash Drive and Click on password reset Link as shown in Following Figure.
The Password Reset Wizard Will open and then You have to select your Password Reset USB Flash Drive as shown in following figure and then click Next.
After that Vista, will ask you for a new Password as Shown in following Figure.
Type in Your New Password and Then Click Next and then Finish. Now the Password to Windows Vista has Been Changed and you can log in to the System With the help of your new Password.
This is a guest post by Gagandeep Singh. Gagandeep Singh, is Working as Internet Marketing Executive for Fortepromo, which Supplies Custom Flash Drives. These Imprinted Flash Drives which contains your logo are the best giveaway for your clients and to promote your brand in the market.
UPDATE: When you’re done reading this article, check out the second FarmVille tips and tricks article.
12 days ago, I happened to look over someone’s shoulder when they had FarmVille open. Before then, I had brushed it off as another lame community game I didn’t have time for. It was at that time that I actually saw the game being played and decided to give it a shot. Over the last 12 days, I’ve been so successful at the game that I felt I just had to share some of what helped me rocket past many of my Facebook friends in the game. Grab a notepad or fire up the printer, because I have some great tips and tricks to help you do as well as I am in FarmVille. Just to prove my point, here’s a screen shot of my farm from just minutes ago. Not bad for 12 days.
Get some friends
Yeah yeah. You have a lot of friends. But are they playing FarmVille? Some things (like acquiring more land) require certain amounts of friends. Make sure you engage some of your friends to be your FarmVille neighbors. If, like me, you don’t want to spam people who hate all the online games, just watch your friends feed for those participating and add them. You can also go to the My Neighbors tab in the game to see all your friends who are playing and invite them to be your neighbor.
Be a helpful neighbor
While you may be competing with your friends to some extent, you can also help them out and help yourself in the process. Visit the My Neighbors tab often and watch for it to say someone could use some help. Click the link and help your neighbor. Then visit the My Neighbors tab again after each time to see if another neighbor needs help. Often you can help several in a row. Not only can you earn ribbons (see below), but you can also rack up some quick coins and XP (experience points). This is a great way to grow quickly in the beginning levels. It’s also a nice way to get those last five XP and level up while waiting for your crops to grow.
Earn some ribbons
Remember all those ribbons you earned as a kid for athletic events and science fairs? It’s time to strive for those colorful marks of achievement once again. FarmVille gives you ribbons for everything from farming a certain number of trees to taking in enough stray animals. When you earn a ribbon, you get coins, XP, and even gifts. This is another way to help yourself level up.
Celebrate achievements of friends Every achievement comes with the opportunity to brag about it as a Facebook update. Sometimes, you can click a friend’s FarmVille update to celebrate with them. When you do, you get coins just for being a pal!
Visit daily
Even when you don’t have time to play or you know your crops won’t be ready yet, drop in the game for a second. Frequent visits earn random amounts of coins for logging into the game and who doesn’t want some free coins?
Choose your crops wisely
Different crops yield different amounts of coins, and typically, the further you advance in the game, the better the crops. However, you shouldn’t just plant the newest crop in your arsenal every time. Take a look at your schedule and your ability to time your growth around your schedule (see below). For example, on a holiday weekend with more free time to play, it’s better to plant blueberries 24 times in a 4 day period (4 hour growth x 96 coins and 1 XP) rather than watermelon once (4 day growth x 348 coins and 2 XP). At that rate, planting 10 squares of watermelon would get you 3,480 coins and 30 XP (20 for planting and 10 for plowing once) and planting 10 squares of blueberries would get you 23,040 coins and 480 XP (240 for planting and 240 for plowing). Of course, the blueberry planting will be a lot more work, but just look at the rewards for all that hard work. 23,040 coins and 480 XP is far better than 3,480 coins and 30 XP any day.
Time your crop growth
Where do I get all the free time to play? The truth is that I don’t really play all that much. I plan my copy growth around my free time. For example, I’ll have time to plant before bed and again right before work. For that reason, it’s ideal to plant something with 8 hours growth time tonight, so I’ll plant tomatoes for 173 coins per square. In the morning, I’ll plant rice because I won’t have time to play until tomorrow night and rice grows in 12 hours. And don’t forget the in between times. While I’m writing this, my Raspberries are growing. With a 2 hour growth time, I’m getting a whole crop growth extra before my tomatoes. This planning becomes easier as you progress in the game and have more crops available, but it can be started pretty early and has been pivotal in my farm’s growth.
Don’t let them wither!
Crops wither in the same period of time that they take to grow, so once your 4 hour strawberries are ready for harvest, they will begin to wither and will be useless in 4 more hours. This shouldn’t be a big problem if you time your crops as mentioned above, but it’s important to remember any time you plant something.
Give gifts to friends
In FarmVille, you can buy stuff for yourself, but you can also give out up to 20 gifts every day. So every day, I make sure to shower my FarmVille neighbors with nice things. The more you give, the more you get. Most of my trees and animals came as gifts and much of that was in response to gifts I had given. I also make sure to give to the top 20 neighbors. I do this not only because they can give better gifts back, but also because they’re more likely to be neighbors that are still actively playing.
Is easier really better
I’ve seen you eyeballing those tractors. They’ll making your plowing, harvesting, and planting four times faster, which is also four times easier, but is it better? One thing seldom realized until it’s too late is that those tools require fuel and that fuel requires money. No, not the fairly abundant coins, but the dollar bill money. The dollar bills take a lot longer to earn, and if you use a harvester or tractor, you’ll blow through dollar bills quickly.
We can’t have nice things
Oh you CAN have nice things in FarmVille. The game is full of neat stuff to buy. There’s two reasons I don’t buy much of it, though. First, it takes up precious crop space. The more space I have to plow and grow, the faster I can earn coins and XP to level up. Second, they eat up your money. I like to build my farm up first and I’ll throw in some fun stuff later when I have more space and coins than I can manage.
Won’t you be my neighbor You know you could us at least one more neighbor and you already know I give gifts and help clear weeds and scare away crows.. So why not add me. Just visit my profile on Facebook and add me. Then use the instructions above to add me as a FarmVille neighbor. I am no longer playing FarmVille after having reached the maximum level.
So how about the rest of you… Any hot tips or lessons you’ve learned to help you get ahead? Share them below and don’t forget to share this article on Facebook.
Updates:
It’s now been about a month of playing and I’ve made it to level 30. I’d probably be a couple more levels further if it weren’t for just being busy at home and at work. In any case, I wanted to celebrate (and thank everyone for making this article pretty popular) by adding a few photos and a few more tips:
Trap your farmer
This tip came from my buddy, Lowell, and has really helped to drop my farming time. When you harvest, plow, or plant seeds, your little farmer guy (or girl) will try to do each one by hand if you don’t have the equipment and fuel to do them four at a time. In this case, you want to trap your farmer in a fenced off area. He (or she) will be unable to move and the farming will happen without your farmer, much faster. Your farmer will be free again the moment you leave the page.
Layer trees, animals, and buildings
Have you gotten a bunch of trees close together and then found that you couldn’t see one behind another? If you have two rows of trees next to each other, put taller ones in the back. You’ll often still be unable to see when they’re ready to harvest, but at least you can see them to get to them with the mouse. Run your mouse cursor over trees slowly. When it changes to the harvest icon, that tree is ready.
The same goes for animals and buildings. Put the bigger buildings behind other stuff so they don’t obscure your other items. With animals, put them in rows with the bigger ones in the back. Recently, FarmVille allowed animals to roam around freely if you choose, but it creates a big mess. If you line them up neatly like I have mine above, they’re a lot easier to manage.
Seize unique opportunities
Have you seen the hot air balloon? There’s one in my images above. How about the very recently added spooky dead tree for Halloween? FarmVille marks special occasions by giving us these little treats. Generally, they’re cheap to buy and sell for little or no coins, but they’re also not available for long. When you see one, snatch it up because you may not get another chance.
There are also certain things that you can obtain only by watching your friend feed. So far, we’ve seen stray black sheep, ugly ducklings, and brown cows. If you see one in your friend feed, click on it to try and give it a home, but hurry up because they go fast. The ugly ducklings turn into swans! This is also where it helps to have lots of FarmVill neighbors. I have a ton after this article was first posted and because of it, I was given over 50 elephants in the 2 days they were available to gift. I’m now getting about 50 gifts a day. What I can’t use I sell.
Buy XP (and dollars)
You can’t really buy XP or dollar bills, but you can buy your way to them. For XP, buy large ticket items to get just enough XP to level up. If you need just 78 more XP to get to the next level but just finished all your plowing, you can just buy a tool shed to gain 80 XP and level up. If you do this before you plant, you can open up a new seeds option to plant for more money. It’s a little thing, but every little bit helps you move up faster.
As for the dollar bills, you get those when you level up. The technique above helps you level up faster and earn more of these scarce dollar bills. Hold on to them tightly and don’t waste them on junk at the start like I did. You’ll want to save up 25 to purchase the second level fuel refill. On a large farm, that should be enough to harvest, plow, and seed about half your farm.
A few weeks ago, I talked about what I would buy in a shopping spree on HP.com and announced a HP gift card contest which you could enter by simply sharing with us what notebook computer is your favorite at HP.com.
We had some good answers and the time finally came to announce a couple winners. And the winners are… (imagine a drum roll here):
Shel
and
Mark at Darn Good Reviews
Congrats to both of you! You should be contacted soon to receive your gift cards.
I have some more stuff over here that I would like to give out in contests, so watch for those to happen soon.
No more Bookmark Fridays? That’s right. I’ve come to realize that with my unpredictable schedule, it’s just not realistic to plan for a bookmarks post every Friday. I still want to provide bookmarks every week, however, so welcome to the first of many Weekly Bookmarks posts. Each week (usually on the weekend or Monday morning), I’ll post a list of some of my favorite links for the week just like I did with Bookmark Fridays.
I’ve also decided to stop linking to twitter accounts (at least for now). Only the same two or three people ever request the link and while they’re good people to follow, linking to them every week provides no real benefit to anyone.
With all that out of the way, let’s have some bookmarks:
AT&T MSS is early! – Well that’s what people are reporting, anyway, but not me. I just upgraded to 3.1 and no MMS still.
Get more web traffic – 21 untapped traffic sources is a pretty good list of ways to get more traffic to your wite, blog, youtube videos, etc.
Seeduino Mega – One of my employees, Jared, just bought one of these. It’s like the famed Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform, but “much better” according to the employee. He said he suggested Seeduino send me one to play with. I wonder if they will.
Liquidware – This was also pointed out to me by Jared. These boards can connect to each other and when one gets new software loaded onto it, any others connected to it will find and download the same software until the whole colony of them are updated. Watch the first video on the site.
People of Walmart – I know. It’s bad, but sometimes you just have to laugh at silly people.
Your world of text – Just click and type. It’s a blank slate anyone can come in and add to or edit.
TowerGeeks – More stuff I want to buy and play with. I love the towers that you can just slide boards into.
Searchslate – What a great idea. I should have done that. In fact… (to be continued)
If you’re on Twitter, you may have heard about Twestival by now. if you haven’t here’s the low down. This past February, 200+ cities around the world hosted Twestivals on the same night to help raise money for Charity Water while having a lot of fun. It was a huge success around the world, and it was a lot of fun for me here in Phoenix. Over $250,000 was raised in one night just from those of us who live 140 characters at a time. Some time later, I was pleased to find in my email links to videos of wells being dug with the money raised. Given the large scale success, Twestival planning was again under way.
The event and sponsors
I’ve been wanting to get more involved with events locally and just getting out more and meeting people, so when the opportunity to volunteer was recognized, I jumped right in. Honestly, I didn’t really do all that much because there were so many other people just running with it and making things happen, but it was nice to pitch in where I could.
When I say people ran with it, I mean they really made this event great. The organizers and other volunteers brought in a ton of great raffle items and an almost unmanageable amount of silent auction items. They brought in some wonderful sponsors like the Phoenix Suns, CBS Outdoor, and Joe’s Real BBQ, just to name a few. When the sponsors gave, they really gave from the heart. Not only did some of them help cater the event, but they threw in some great give-aways on top of it. One of the big sponsors of the evening, Infusionsoft is no stranger to Twestival. After making a $1,000 donation to help with the event in February, they stepped up with another $1,000 again. And from what I understand, the aloft Hotel provided the space for free. The hotel was very nice, by the way.
The raffle and silent auction For the event, I bought a Gold Donation package, which included 5 raffle tickets and I bought another 5 tickets just to make a nice even 10. During the second raffle, I won twice. The first time, I won a gift package from Oregano’s Pizza. In a (clean) pizza box, I found a $25 gift card, lots of coupons, and two Oregano’s t-shirts. I can always use t-shirts, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with a free meal. Next, I won two gift cards to Joe’s Real BBQ totaling $30. I hadn’t head of them before Twestival, and I have no idea why. They helped cater and when I tried the BBQ it was great, but the beans were phenomenal. I’m excited to make use of these prizes. Lots of other people also looked very pleased with their prizes from the raffle. After all, how often do you get to mingle with all these cool people for a small donation and then walk away with prizes, including bags of coffee, lots of gift cards, hats, and other fun stuff.
For some of us, the silent auction was just as exciting. Items included web services, photography, artwork, landscaping (which someone got a steal on big time), box seats, an autographed Leandro Barbosa jersey, and so much more I can’t even mention it all here. Before I even left the office, I had my sights set on that Barbosa jersey. I was the second bidder with an easy $70 bid. Later in the evening, it was announced that there was only a couple minutes left on the silent auctions, so I headed back and saw a few more bids after mine. I got my bid in at the last possible second and am now the proud owner of the jersey. It’ll look great framed up in my office.
The people
Although it may not seem like it online, I can be pretty shy in person until someone approaches and strikes up a conversation. It was pretty fortunate, then, that I wound up meeting and having good conversations with @cinimod, @nickhammond, and others. It was good to see again and meet anew people like @chrislee, @aussieheather (and her brother), @MsHerr, @JennyCarnie, @PHXated, @Georgie_Phx and anyone I might have missed. I had a blast and everyone I encountered helped that happen in some small way.
The charity After a lot of thoughtful discussion and weighing all the factors, St Mary’s Food Bank was chosen as the charity we would all come together for tonight. They provide thousands of meals consistently throughout Phoenix and have been around for as long as I can remember. Can you imagine a single Twestival standard donation of $20 goes to provide 140 meals? I will never look at a $20 bill the same way again. It’s an amazing charity and I’m glad I could be there to help give.
So in summary, the night was awesome, the people were great, the charity is worthy and the event was a huge success. I’m excited to be a part of the next one early next year and hope to see some of you there.
