[RESOLVED] Lost Windows Password

[Ragnoth]

Okay, I finally have a working solution...this won't use any of my scripts...but rather a liveCD...well more of huge collection of tools CD...HirenBootCD


I tested this on the virtual machine I created and it works like a charm.


This is actually going to bypass the Windows Password Authentication.

First, you will need to download and then burn Hiren to a CD or you can go through their process to put it on a flash drive...which the CD would be faster.

Link to Hiren: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

Pictures of this process are attached to this post...I did not re-size the images to ensure people can read them.



Once burned and you started the computer up with the CD, select Mini Windows Xp

After it loads up, click the HBCD Menu icon

open the program list, go to "Passwords / Keys" then "Windows Login" then WindowsGate (Disables logon password validation)

once that loads...select the drive that has the Windows installation...should only be 1 drive the shows anyways...but if there is more than one...it is usually the bigger one.


This will take a minute to gather the information it needs, but once it does just check the checkbox for Msv1_0.dll patch...wait for it to do its thing (it will prompt you when it is complete)


Then simply restart without the CD and go to log into the account, and type whatever you want for the password...and blam you are in


I would recommend that after you get in and change the password to the account, you re-enable the password verification...