Lost my Windows 7 admin password, need to change or reset it [duplicate]

Lost my Windows 7 admin password, need to change or reset it [duplicate] I forgot the Windows 7 password on my new computer and I can't log into it at all. I was the administrator for the computer with that account.
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"My favorite tool for resetting Windows passwords is the Trinity Rescue Kit Linux live CD. All you have to do is burn the ISO, boot from the disc and use the included scripts to change the Administrator password.

Once TRK has booted, run the mountallfs filesystem mounting script to mount local drives:

# mountallfs -g

The -g tells the script to mount NTFS drives in read-write mode. Once mounted, run the winpass password reset script:

# winpass

...and follow the prompts. Reboot (shutdown -r now; don't forget to take out the CD) and login with your new password.

As mentioned by @fluxtendu, you will lose access to any EFS encrypted files. Additionally, you're pretty much hosed if your Windows installation is on a BitLocker-protected drive.

TRK is also useful for a host of other recovery scenarios; it's saved the data of myself and friends from unbootable computers several times."