Lost Password

I set up Windows 2008 R2 last week, and it has new password complexity requirements. So I changed my normal "home" password for my machines, added a new one, and haven't been back since. I got busy, and was waiting for a slow day to get things going.

So yesterday I moved the machine upstairs, turned it on, got busy, and this morning when I went to log in, I couldn't remember the password. I tried a few, went downstairs to see if I'd written it down, checked the password app on my laptop, couldn't find it.

Grrr.

After mentally slapping myself a few times I gave up, and reinstalled W2K8. It was easy and painless, so not a big deal.

I did write the password down this time :)