A nice way to get around this is to use the Winternals Admin Pak 4.0 (or 3.01) boot CD, which contains ERD Commander that basically boots into a "Windows-like" OS and gives full access to the system. Once inside the system you can change registry settings, recover the SAM, change the password to whatever you want, and do numerous other things if you wish. The disc also contains an NTFS read/write access driver to allow full access to the system from the command line as well. Check it out here, kinda pricey:

http://winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/

Netsniper

cah you please if anyone can tell me the way to pypass the login and go straight into the account in each of the windows operation systems. my next door neighbour asked me if i could get passed by the login password and i couldnt and it is annoying me not knowing the way it is done.

the methods are different for 98 and XP.

you'll have to boot of a floppy disk.
and copy either the .pwl files or the .sam files to the disk
and then break them with john/cain/l0pht etc

ask again if you want more detail

If you have physical access to the NT machines, you can also just go here:

http://home.eunet.no/%7Epnordahl/ntpasswd/

And make a nice bootable floppy which you can use to reset the password to blank for any NT system It works great. (Note, it's better to reset to blank then to try and change the password, blank will always work)

-nico

If only u had searched the forum for an answer This topic has already been delt with
http://forums.governmentsecurity.org/index...opic=2156&st=0&
Please search the forum next time ...

98 and 2000 are easy, i delt with it in my topic

link : http://forums.governmentsecurity.org/index...?showtopic=3347

and windows xp is easy:

turn on pc hold down F8 boot in safe mode click on administrator
click start --> Run
type control userpasswords2
you can now change passwords without knowing them!!

nice

On 98/ME if you have local access, you can just hit cancel. Or another little hole I discovered, if you know you have an account that has a password that you want to get into, just try to log in, when it gives you the error message that you can't get in, log into one that has no password, and you'll log into the first one.

it's the same thing what they all use the SYSKEY to disable it..

Is there any crack for the wininternals program?
Don't want to pay, lol

that wininternals is a nice one , but i cant afford it .. so i will have to use the small bootable programs

thanks

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