For privacy protection and data security purposes, it is very necessary to set a login password for the Windows user in use in many environments (especially the public places). But sometimes, we may forget our login password for those computers we don't use very often, or remember the wrong password, and fail to log in. This case, reinstalling the operating system is a inadvisable bad plan; and taking brute-force password cracking is extremely inefficient. Therefore, clearing the original user password has always been the first choice - also the easiest and most efficient way.

Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) means lightweight versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems that allow you to boot from DVD, USB or over network. This is a collection post for Windows PE assembly (Windows 7 PE, Windows 8 PE, Windows 8.1 PE, and Windows 10 PE) made by the famous reverse engineer Ratiborus from a very popular Russian computer forum Ru.Board. They will be updated as new utilities or drivers are added.

As one of the most important and effective OS maintaining tools, Windows PE had become necessary for a long time. And in many cases, it is the key to solve troublesome system boot failures. While as a matter of fact, it is hard to find a high-quality WinPE image file on the Internet (so as to burn it into a USB/DVD media for use). As a consequence, a lot of advanced computer users chose to build their own PEs.

Win32 Disk Imager (AKA: ImageWriter) is very simple image-to-disk writing tool, free, open-source, lightweight and easy-to-use. Compared with similar tools, its advantages are more stable and reliable. And when write a large size of image file into USB storage device, you will find it also has some superiority on writing speed. Besides, the whole process has no effect to the performance of your computer.

For guy who wants to be a master of network (WAN/LAN, no matter it's black, red or white), without help of various off-the-shelf classical network utilities for multipurpose uses, I'm afraid your level will stay in the DOS era of last century forever. I mean, in that case, even it was you invented the whole Internet, you could not do anything interesting or exciting.