Windows password recovery tools are the tools that you can use to recover lost user and administrator passwords used to log on to your Windows operating systems.

Here is the list top 5 free Windows password recovery programs available in my opinion.

1.Ophcrack

It is simply the best password recovery tool available.It is very fast and is safe to use. Most important thing is you can download it for free.
Visit the ophcrack site, then download the free ISO image from the site , burn it to a CD and boot from the CD. The Ophcrack program will begin and search the Windows user accounts and will give you their passwords.
It can recover your password in less than 10 seconds and it supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

2.Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

It works just like the PC Login Now as both of them delete your Windows password instead of recovering it.
Here also you will have to boot to a burned CD created with the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor ISO file.
If you like this "password deleting" strategy then I highly recommend this program.
It supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, and Windows NT.

3.Cain & Abel

Cain and Abel is another very fast password recovery tool currently available.
Unlike Ophcrack and other popular password hacking programs, Cain & Abel requires access to Windows under an administrator account to crack passwords. Thus Cain & Abel is a helpful to recover passwords to other user accounts .
It supports windows 7.

4.LCP

LCP is another good free password recovery software tool for Windows.
It also performs very fast password recovery.

5.John The Ripper

John the Ripper is an excellent free password recovery tool that can be used to crack Windows account passwords.The password recovery application itself is free,but you will have to pay for the wordlists used by John the Ripper to discover passwords.John the Ripper operates at the command line .Thus only advanced users can only use it,

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Top 5 free Windows Password Recovery tools