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Top 4 Options Prevent Windows 8 Password Forgot on Toshiba

Good news: Toshiba announces new Windows 8 laptops



With Windows 8 out of the closet, Toshiba has kicked off 2013 with two new Windows 8 laptops, the Satellite U845t and the Qosmio X875.

The Satellite U845t is a budget UltraBook, which has a 14-inch capacitive touch panel with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. Under the hood it comes in Intel i3 and i5 flavors and users can configure with up to 6GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive, tied in with a 32GB SSD for fast boot time. The laptop is also very light and is 0.8-inches thin and weighs 1.8 kg.

The Qosmio X875 is Toshiba’s desktop replacement laptop and it’s one real behemoth. The new model includes a 1TB hard drive running at 7,200 RPM that works in tandem with a 8GB flash chip for fast boot time. Additionally, it can be configured with up to 32GB of RAM and will have an Nvidia GTX 670M GPU with 3GB of memory. Toshiba will offer an optional 3D display powered by Nvidia 3D Vision 2. No details regarding processor and display have been revealed but it’s safe to expect an Intel Ivy Bridge chipset.

Windows 8, work as a powerful operating system, take much convenience to our job and life. In order to make our pc much securer, we would like to set a strong win 8 password. However, forgetting windows 8 password is a common thing. Internet helps us a lot especially when we come across some computer problem. However, When comes to prevent Windows 8 password forgot or reset toshiba password, maybe we have nothing to do with it. Here I would like to share some helpful information with you.

How to Prevent Windows 8 password forgot on Toshiba Laptop?

Option 1: Set up a Windows Password Hint

On one hand, you had better create a helpful password hint which will be visible on Windows 8 logon if you enter an incorrect password. On the other hand, the hint should be related to your password so that you may remember your password if you get that hint.

Note: Password hints are only available for local account users.

Option 2: Create Windows 8 Password Reset Disk

A password reset disk could actually occur in handy if you actually overlook Windows 8 password. The difficulty with this technique is that you have to produce the Toshiba password reset disk prior to the password is lost. Assuming that you have produced it in progress, then you can use this technique to reset Windows 8 password simply.

Option 3: Create a Picture Password

Picture passwords are easier to remember as they are visuals. If you are using a touch enabled device, it is easy to create a picture password. To create a picture password, open the charms bar and go to Search. Search for “users” and select Users from the search results.

Select “Create a picture password” under Sign-in options.

OPtion 4: Use Default Windows 8 Administrator Account

Every version of windows has a default windows administrator account which permits you to login in windows with a blank password. But this account is disabled in ordinary mode, so you will require to primary boot windows 8 in secure a lot more. Otherwise, if you forgot windows 8 administrator password, it is troublesome.

What if you have not done one of this for prevent or forgot it? Does it mean you couldn’t recover your forgotten Windows 8 password any longer. Of course not, there are lots of password recovery program also works with Windows 8 and help you crack laptop password. You can boot the password recovery tool from CD/DVD and bypass Windows 8 logon and then reset the password once you’re in Windows 8. Here I would like to list top 4 password recovery software for you.

Top 1: Ophcrack

Ophcrack is the most popular Windows password reset software as it is free and open source. Passwords can be recovered automatically without installing anything on the computer. You only need to download and burn the OPHCRACK Live CD and boot the PC using the Live CD. If you are a newbie, it’s not recommended as it requires some computer skills and the password recovery rate is not guaranteed.

Top 2: Windows Password Recovery Tool

Windows Password Recovery Tool is an easy-to-use tool designed for resetting Windows local account or domain passwords on any Windows system. Passwords can be reset in 3 minutes, no matter how long and complicated your Windows 8 password is. Besides password recovery function, it even can change any local admin/user/domain admin password, and create a new Administrator account via CD/DVD or USB drive.

Strengths: Easy (3 steps: Download – Burn – Reset); Fast (Only 3 minutes even less); Safe (Read-only and non-destructive design, no any data loss or damage).

Top 3: Windows Password Key

Windows Password Key is a professional Windows 8 password recovery program to reset lost Windows 8 password with ease. This Software creates a password reset CD/DVD or USB Flash Drive that works at the time of booting process.

Top 4: SmartKey Windows Password Recovery

SmartKey Windows Password Recovery can help you instantly reset Windows password. It can help you remove forgotten windows 8 password efficiently and let you login Windows without any password. No technical knowledge required. And you have no need to format or re-install Windows!

Source: http://www.powerpointpasswordrecovery.net/reset-toshiba-password-windows-8.html

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Windows 8 and Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Laptap

 Windows 8 and Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Laptap

In order to get Linux installed to begin with, I first had to create some space on the laptop. I searched in Settings for "Disk Management". Start the Disk Management tool with the descripton "Create and format hard disk partitions".

Select the largest partition and right click to choose to shrink it.

At minimum, you will want to shrink it by at least 10Gb, but with a 640Gb hard drive, I was able to shrink mine by about 400Gb.

Next, to be able to boot the DVD to perform an install, I used the following procedure to switch to BIOS, disable Secure Boot, enable CMS (compatiblity booting), and boot an install DVD.

At first I tried installing CentOS 6, and it succeeded nicely, but without ethernet support by default. I never got wireless working, although I think it may be possible using the compat-drivers discussed below.

When I quickly tired of the lack of available current packages from CentOS 6 (and other related repositories), I wanted to upgrade to Fedora. I tried the latest Fedora 18, but unfortunately, the brand new installer failed. So, next I tried the Fedora 17 DVD install and it succeeded. I was able to get ethernet, wireless, bluetooth, radeon, and other drivers working successfully.

Booting From Windows 8 to Linux

After booting, click the screen or log out of your account
Click the power icon in the lower right corner and choose Restart
Press F2 when Toshiba logo appears
Use arrow keys to navigate to Security menu
Go down until you arrive at Secure Boot
Press Enter to change the value, use arrows to change to Disabled, press Enter to go back
Up to the top, over to the Advanced menu
Down to System Configuration, and press Enter.
Down to Boot Mode
Press Enter to change to value to CMS Boot, and Enter to go back. (Press F10 and Enter)
Press Escape to go back to the top level menus.
Go up and over to the right to the Exit menu
Select Exit and save changes

When you want to come back, then follow this procedure:

Booting From Linux to Windows 8

Restart
Press F2 when Toshiba logo appears
Over to the Advanced menu
Down to System Configuration, and press Enter.
Down to Boot Mode, and press Enter
Use arrow keys to change to value to UEFI Boot, and press Enter
Press Escape to go back to the main menus
Go up and over to Security menu
Down arrow until you arrive at Secure Boot, and press Enter
Use the arrow keys to change the value to Enabled and press Enter  (Press F10 and Enter)
Go up and over to the right to the Exit menu
Select Exit and save changes
Boot into Windows 8

Ethernet networking

The Atheros ethernet device is shown on the PCI bus with lspci -nn as:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1090] (rev 10)
There is no driver for this device yet in the kernel,  although one is proposed according to http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx.

From this document I found the source that is used to make the alx.ko kernel module needed for wired networking. The procedure there will only enable the ethernet driver, but not the other compat-drivers. Once built, this alx kernel module worked well in Fedora.

If you only want ethernet support then the procedure to build the module with the compat-drivers download is:


./scripts/driver-select alx

make

sudo make install

Making (Almost) All the compat-drivers 

Since the radeon driver is already working in Fedora, and the one from the compat-drivers doesnt work  so well, I didnt want that driver to be built and installed. So, I commented out building the radeon driver in the   drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile.

I did want to have the wireless driver built, but there was a problem in the source I downloaded with building another wireless driver (wil6210), so building all the drivers wasnt working. Since I didnt need this driver, I commented out building the wil6210 driver in ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/Makefile, as explained below.

Getting Wireless and Wired Ethernet Working 

The Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5351 laptop that I using has a Realtek Wireless network interface which uses the rtl8723ae kernel module as a driver. This driver is also not included in the main stream kernel,, but is a part of the compat-drivers package.

In order to build everything except the radeon driver and the wil6210 wireless driver that refused to build, I made the following changes:
#obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT_DRM_RADEON)+= radeon/


Second, in the ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/Makefile, the following line originally appeared as:
obj-$(CONFIG_WIL6210) += wil6210/
To stop building this driver a # was added to the beginning of the line like:
#obj-$(CONFIG_WIL6210) += wil6210/


Once these changes are made to the two Makefiles, then you are ready to build and install the drivers with:
make
sudo make install

Centos/Redhat

Although I had no success getting the compat-drivers to be built under Centos or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I found a couple of potential solutions. There is a repository compatible with RHEL that exists at http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compat-wireless.repo.

Also, there is the "El Repo" repository for the ethernet driver, and instructions for configuring this repository at http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php. Using another Internet connected machine, I did successfully use this repository to download the kmod-alx driver and get it to work with Centos 6.

Fedora 17

Installation of Fedora 17 did present one challenge. The installer would not continue past custom partitioning (I wanted to preserve my /home partition). It complained about not having a BIOS Boot partition for Grub 2. The installer would automatically create this partition in automatic partitioning mode, but provided no way to do it manually in the custom partitioning mode.

With UEFI, systems dont use a "MS-DOS Partition Table" on the hard drive, instead they use "Guid Partition Table" or GPT type. The partitioning tool fdisk does not work with GPT partitions, so something like parted or gparted needs to be used instead. Since parted can be very challenging and unforgiving, I decided against using it, even though I could access it from the installation shell.

The solution I used instead to create a special partition with the boot_grub flag set was a Live CD version of Gparted from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php. Once the CD was booted, I  created a 10Mb partition, and right-clicked it to set the boot_grub flag on it. Once this partition existed, then Fedora 17 was able to use custom partitioning successfully during installation.

Windows 8 

Conclusion

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