We have all found ourselves unable to log into the Joomla!® Administration facility.  This guide will demonstrate how to recover (or change) your Joomla® Administrator Password:Joomla!®

• Passwords are MD5 hash encrypted.  Therefore, in order to specify a new Administrator Password, we first need to convert our new password to the MD5 hash.
  Go to www.md5encrypter.com (or do a Google search to find any MD5 Encrypter) and enter a new password.

• Open phpMyAdmin (or your database administration tool) and browse the jos_users table (your prefix may be different to the defauly ‘jos’).

• Once you have opened the jos_users table, click the edit icon for the Administrator value.

• Now enter your MD5 hash value converted earlier into the password field value and save.

That is all there is to it.  Now you should be able to log into the Administration Facility.