Logical chain: why is mnemonics so important?
So, if you have forgotten your password, then your first action is to calm down. He did not disappear irrevocably (at least, a system that completely erases a person’s memory has not yet been invented). That is why you can always restore all the information that you forgot, simply by giving a certain key to your brain. Usually this is an association or logical chain based on which you made the combination. That’s why the first thing you need to do if you can’t remember the required sequence is to search for a key phrase.
Usually, when creating a secret combination, users try to draw some kind of analogy between it and something important to themselves. Often this is personal information: date of birth or wedding, first name, last name, patronymic or patronymic of parents, husband, children. By the way, it is not recommended to do this, since a good hacker will figure out such a password in no time.
Thus, in order to remember the old secret code, write down all your personal data, as well as significant dates, on a piece of paper and try to make combinations from them. However, this method has one significant drawback - even if you manage to remember an approximate set of letters and numbers, your torment will not end there. To restore the required code, this will not be enough - you will also need to guess the layout and figure out which letters are capital and which are urgent.
All these tips will not help at all when solving the question: “How can you remember a graphic code?” This is a kind of key with which the owner can protect his phone or tablet. If you forgot it, then you will have 5 attempts, after which the gadget will be blocked. However, there are two reasonable ways out of this situation: remember your account information or return to factory settings. In the first case, you must enter the email address that you used via your smartphone and the secret alphanumeric combination from the mailbox. This will mean that you have fully confirmed your identity and can change the treasured key. The second method should be saved for last, since an emergency reboot of the system will completely delete all data from the phone (including the fact that it was blocked with a pattern key). However, you may permanently lose phone numbers, personal photos and videos that were stored in the device’s memory. To prevent this from happening, always make backup copies of your data.
Password recovery via support service
If all else fails, there is another recovery method.
First, we need another mailbox on mail.ru. You can register a new one or ask someone you trust. Having a mailbox on Mail, we do the following:
- We go into it and click the “Write a letter” button.
- In the subject line write “Password recovery”, in the addressee line
In the body of the letter you should write about when access was lost, inform that the mail was hacked and ask for a package of documents that is necessary to restore it. Don't forget to include the full mailbox address.
You will receive a response shortly, telling you what information you need to provide.
If you registered the box using your real data, then you can report this, and perhaps you can get by with just a photo of your passport or birth certificate.
If the data is not real, then you will need to provide as much information about the mailbox as possible, namely:
- Personal settings (filters, etc.).
- Personally created folders.
- Latest incoming and outgoing emails.
- Data specified during registration (first name, last name, date of birth, etc.).
- Answer to the secret question (if changed, then all secret questions and answers to them).
- Your previous passwords (all the ones you remember).
Advice . When communicating with Maila support, write very detailed emails, providing as much information as possible. Be extremely polite: do not accuse or be rude of anything!
If you manage to prove that this is your mailbox, you will soon receive a notification about this, and then a link to change your password (it will work for 72 hours).
How to remember the password for your Instagram account?
Social media account passwords are among the TOP most forgotten passwords. The thing is that many users open their favorite social network on the same gadget. To make the process go as quickly as possible, they simply enter the code into the device’s memory. This, of course, cannot be done, because it is unknown in whose hands your device may end up. In addition, after spending several months in this mode, you may not be able to access your favorite social network from another device. This time is enough for the combination of numbers and letters to be completely forgotten.
You can solve this problem using email, Facebook or phone number. If you can’t remember the password for Instagram, VK or Odnoklassniki, then select the password change function and a message with a new password will be sent to your Gmail (or other mailbox). This step will also help if you have forgotten the secret combination for your Microsoft account. This is practically the only way to restore it without visiting a service center.
But to recover the password for a Sberbank card, these actions will not be enough - to do this, you should call the bank, go to the bank branch, and worry about the safety of the data. Also, to save funds on your card, you should not write down your password anywhere - it could become available to a fraudster. That is why the birth dates of loved ones are most often used for passwords. If you have forgotten your password and do not want to go to the nearest branch, try entering the data that is most important to you. However, remember that you will only have 5 attempts to check all versions. After this, the ATM will simply confiscate your card.
How to remember the password for VK, mail and other Internet accounts?
Each active Internet user sometimes has more than a dozen different accounts on social networks, several email addresses registered on different domains, and a certain number of personal accounts in online stores, banking and government agencies. Registration in any of them requires a login and password. If the first one is most often used by email address or phone number, then the secret code should be purely individual. If you have one combination for all occasions, get ready for the fact that your personal data will become easy prey for any more or less savvy hacker. An abundance of electronic passwords plus a phone code - and a continuous mess of numbers and letters forms in your head. This has already led to the fact that every second user forgets most of all this information within a year. The most logical and correct solution to this problem would be a note made in a diary or a folder with passwords on the desktop (which are securely hidden among other information). But this bright thought usually comes to mind already when the desired combination does not want to be remembered, and the information is needed here and now.
How can I now recover my password and access to the page?
There are three options. Read carefully:
Recover via SMS and email
If you have additional login confirmation enabled, then instead of quick password recovery via SMS, password recovery via SMS and e-mail is used. You will need both. Is your page linked to email? If so, you can request a link to reset your password (opens in a new window).
It may turn out that the page is linked to the mail, but you cannot enter the mail (you don’t have access or you simply don’t remember it) - in this case, it is better to try to first restore access to the mail. If the mail is not linked, there are only the following two methods.
Restore with the help of five friends
This method is possible when all conditions are met:
- The page has 5 friends whom you agree to choose as trusted ones.
- You have a valid SIM card with a number linked to the page.
- You know the last name listed on the page.
- The page is not blocked (that is, it does not say on it that it is blocked or frozen).
If all conditions are met, then when you submit an application to restore access via the link vk.com/restore, you will be asked to return access through friends. You need to agree and choose friends. They will receive 6-character codes, which they must enter into a special form (in any order). You will be able to see how many codes have already been entered and how many remain to be entered.
If you don’t have enough friends, but you were subscribed to someone, then you can try to contact this person, explain your problem and ask to accept your friend request (at least temporarily).
If this method is not successful, you can still restore access by requesting support:
Restore via support
When login confirmation is enabled, but you forgot your password and the page is NOT linked to an email (or you don’t have access to your email, or you don’t remember the address), the only way to recover the page is to submit a technical support request. Link: vk.com/restore?act=return_page. It will open an access restoration form that must be filled out. It's better to do this from a computer rather than from a phone. See detailed instructions here:
- Restoring access without a phone (second method) - opens in a new window
If it doesn’t work, do it through the full version on your computer.
You will have to prove that the page is yours. If your real photos are not there or your real name and surname are not indicated, then it is almost impossible (or very difficult) to restore the page. After all, you were warned about everything when you turned on the login protection. You can see why the application might be rejected. Of course, there is an opportunity to contact VK support and try to prove in some way that the page is yours. If they see that you are a normal person and that the page is really yours, they may meet you halfway. If even then nothing works out, you will have to register a new page in VK.
Why can’t I recover my password via SMS if login confirmation is enabled?
Because you yourself enabled TWO-Factor (TWO-Step) authentication, and now you want to reset your password with only ONE factor (phone). But it doesn't work that way. Imagine: if someone had access to your SIM card, they would steal your page without even knowing your password. This would no longer be two-factor authentication. I should have read the warning when I decided to enable this feature. We described all the ways to reset your password in this situation above.
I have backup codes, why can’t I recover my password with them?
Because the backup codes that you wrote out or printed are needed when you don’t have access to your phone - that is, when you can’t receive an SMS to log in. And you don’t have a password, you forgot it. In this case, the backup code will not help.
Is there no way to restore it?
There are no other ways to restore access. You just read all the possible ways.
I don’t have login confirmation enabled, but VK still requires me to restore it upon request
Happens to those who use multiple pages. There is no way around this. If there is no photo on the page yet, see here: How to restore a VK page if there is no photo on it.
How to remember the password for Apple products?
If you have forgotten your Apple user account password, you can recover it using two-step or two-phase verification.
If you forget your iPhone password, you just need to enter the recovery code and receive confirmation from a trusted device. But if you have forgotten your iCloud password and you do not have access to the gadget, then the situation becomes more complicated. However, it can be solved if you have a recovery code. But if the specified device is lost, as well as the necessary recovery combination, it is no longer possible to do anything with the password. You simply have no choice - you either remember the treasured numbers, or you are left without an account at all (which, in principle, is not very good). In this case, Android users benefit. With this operating system, passwords can always be reset by completely rebooting the system.
Remembering the right password is not at all easy and requires some effort. Many people in a hopeless situation (when the treasured code is desperately needed) spend hours trying to remember the combination, hire professional hackers or go to see a hypnotherapist. To prevent this from happening to you, always write down your passwords, remembering to hide them well from prying eyes.
Part 2. How to remove a forgotten password on a laptop using PassFab 4WinKey
All of the above methods require either running certain Linux or DOS commands, or passing various checks. If you are a novice user or simply want to find a more efficient and productive way, then PassFab 4WinKey will be the optimal solution for you. This is a simple program that can bypass and reset your Windows laptop password in record time.
Instructions for removing a forgotten laptop password using the PassFab 4WinKey program
Step 1: Download and install PassFab 4WinKey on an accessible computer.
Step 2. Launch the program. Insert the USB/CD/DVD and click the Burn button to create a bootable password reset disk.
Step 3. After successfully burning the disc, insert this disc or flash drive into a locked computer and press the F12 key (or another key suitable for your laptop model) to enter the BIOS menu. Select to boot your computer from this disk/flash drive. Then save your changes and exit the BIOS menu.
Step 4. After launching the program, select your Windows system and click “Next”, and then select the “Remove account password” option.
Step 5. The program will delete the selected laptop account and password. Restart your computer, after which you will be able to log in without a password or using the new password you set!
Here you can watch a video tutorial on how to use PassFab 4WinKey:
How to remember your Yandex email password?
Recovering a secret combination of numbers and letters on Yandex is quite simple - answer the key question. When registering, each new user leaves a secret message to the future in case he ever forgets the required code. When you enter an incorrect combination into the system several times, you will be prompted for a passphrase. The answer to it, at best, will be your password, at worst, it will tell you in which direction to look. For example, if you chose the name of your favorite teacher as a leading question, then it is quite natural that it will be encrypted in the password. But it’s not worth pointing out card data as a leading question. This way, hackers will also gain access to your bank account.
A similar system of secret questions is used to remember the password for a Google account. In case you still couldn’t remember the treasured combination, order a new password, which the system will automatically send to the phone number you have chosen.
How to remember your Wi-Fi password?
Wi-Fi password is a combination that your smartphone or tablet remembers automatically. We practically don’t remember about it until we get a new gadget that should be connected to the Internet. Remembering the wifi password can be very difficult, because every owner of an Internet signal distribution point tries to protect it as reliably as possible. And this is not surprising, because Wi-Fi with weak protection quickly becomes the prey of enterprising neighbors.
What to do when the router password is completely forgotten? If, after fruitless attempts, you were unable to find the desired combination, then try entering the factory login and password. If even after this you are unable to connect your device, reset the settings on the router. It will return to the factory settings and then the password specified on the device will definitely work.
