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Forgot Windows Vista Password

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I recently set a password for Windows Vista, but after a while I seem to have forgotten it. Now I'm locked out of my computer. :(

How can I recover/remove my password?
 
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Call Microsoft.
 

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my disk has a password reset in it.
 
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