lost windows password

[System_Error]

I have a friend who lost is windows password and can't logon or do anything... What can he do to fix this? Is there a way to do it without using a cracker?

[Hack]

Reload the operating system from disk.

[Static]

XP? XP PRO? Win2000?

[System_Error]

I think it's XP, or XP Pro.. I really can't tell you which. I thought about reloading from disk, but that takes a while.

[System_Error]

would a repair installation work?

[Static]

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...ogon_trick.htm

More links here: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...assword.htm#20

these are password cracker/recovery tools... its only illegal if u are using them to hack a pc which is not yours.

[Static]

no a repair wont... the only method without using a "cracker" would be a full re-install.

that first link that I post has some alternat method.. never tried it.. but give it a read.

[RobDog888]

There are legitimate programs out there to recover the Admin password for windows. What they do is replace a file during the setup installation to fool Windows into thinking its a fresh/new install and use a blank password for the Admin account. google NTAccess 1.5 Its what I have used. Its good and not too expensive. It is secure as you need to have physical access to the system in order to place a floppy or boot cd in.

[litlewiki]

u can do this
boot up your system with dos from a floppy
navigate to c:\windows\system32\config
delete the file sam (with no extension)
restart normally
u should be able to login

p.s: i do this all the time with my college systems and it works, provided the file system is fat32
else u could use ntfs dos from sysinternals.com to access if its in ntfs

[litlewiki]

the above trick works for windows 2000 only...

u can try lc3 or

this

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

[VBdynamic]

Are you trying to access the Administrator account or a user created account? If you are trying to access the Administrator account, you are SOL but if its a user created account, you can login as Adminstrator and just reset the password.

[dark_shadow]

try using this

[rhomel]

Boot your pc to safe mode, then use administrator account. Reset your password.