Oh Noes! window password

[M-26-7]

I cleared my windows password, but it doesn't seem to have worked.I'm locked out of my computer what should I do?
P.S. I tried my old passwordit didn't work

UPDATE: I found a program that will do it, but I'm rather confused (see rank) about what this means:
You only need to type in pairs of lines for users that you wish to recover passwords for. An example is given below.

Administrator:500:0,CC,5E,9A,CB,AD,1B,25,C9,AA,D3,B4,35,B5,14,04,EE:
_99,6E,67,60,CD,DD,88,15,A2,C2,4A,11,0C,F0,40,FB,087CA:::

There should be no spaces and there should be two lines (remove any spaces that may be present). The Username must be entered as well. Make sure you put all the colons in the right places.

http://www.loginrecovery.com/instructions.php#cd

[fredsambo]

If you google around, you'll find lots of password recovery software.

Here is an interesting hack though:  http://internetbusinessdaily.net/how-to-hack-a-window-xp-admins-password/

And here is a Linux Bootable CD image that will detect and reset the password for you:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

[M-26-7]

Is there anyway to access a command line without logging in? I've done it before but it was on another, older computer and by mistake.

[fredsambo]

Yeah, you can use the windows recovery console, but you'll need your windows disk to do that, I believe.

[M-26-7]

You mean the OS install disc? My computer came with windows loaded.

[fredsambo]

Do you have a recovery boot disk?  Maybe even a recovery partition?

[fredsambo]

Or you may be able to hit F8 at boot, bringing you to the boot menu.  Go to Advanced Options and choose Windows Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

[Raptor]

u need 2 hax teh samz My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself..

why dont you do the System elevation exploit I showed you? That will let you change it.

[gangals]

All you need is Hiren’s BootCD 8.6. It's a bootable ISO that contains around 100 utilities, one of them being Active Password Changer 3.0. It will go into your Windows SAM file and replace your current hashed password with a blank hashed password.

Here are some download links for it.

www.rapidshare.com/files/5636255/HBCD.8.6.rar.html

OR

www.megaupload.com/?d=GDGFLM3O

Burn the ISO onto a CD, restart, and make sure, in your BIOS, that your optical drive is set to boot before your HDD.

If you want a step by step process of how to use the utility, let me know and I'll write on out.

Also what Windows version are your using (98SE, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, MCE)?

[M-26-7]

Thank You!111!! Hiren's Boot CD 8.6! It worked like a charm. So I'm good.

[ryanfido]

Do you have a recovery boot disk?  Maybe even a recovery partition?

There's no way with a recovery disk. It's not technically the OS since it can only restore an image of the os.

[Raptor]

my friend made me a boot cd that actually cracks the password, not just resets it. It worked to figure out exactly what my password was in about 7 minutes.

[gangals]

*POOF*

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/