Comments on: CyberNotes: Reset a Windows Admin Password (XP or Vista)

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:48:12 +0000

Trinity Rescue Kit is not easy to use, I usually use the Windows Password Reset Kit 1.5 instead.

By: user

user — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:44:50 +0000

yah but it won’t tell u the password for complicated ones like oes with letters AND numbers

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:33:06 +0000

It is difficult to retrieve a forgotten windows administrator password. I will reinstall my OS if i forget it. But if you don’t want to reinstall you windows OS ,you can remove the password with a windows password recovery disk.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:18:56 +0000

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By: Toly

Toly — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:32:33 +0000

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By: Ulea

Ulea — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:02:35 +0000

IT REALLY WORKS

By: Michael Armstrong

Michael Armstrong — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:07:36 +0000

here is the methods I know.

The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget Your user account password then try this:
Start system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.
Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.
Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten Password by using “Reset Disk”. If you created a Password Reset Disk in Past, you can use that disk to reset the password.

By: hoppi

hoppi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:09:18 +0000

i forgot my vista admin password and tried to crack it by remembering it. i tried about 30 different passwords and my account got locked. so i started searching online.
1) ophcrack couldnt crack it becoz it can only crack alphanumeric passwords with the tables it has, unless u download more rainbow tables.
2) windows key enterprise also didnt do the job
3)Active@Password Changer turned out not to work for vista inspite of claims to the contrary
4) and now im trying trinity and i hope it works.

By: Asgard

Asgard — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:03:28 +0000

A simpler solution is to use PCLoginNow – you download the image, make a bootable disk, boot from it – but instead of command line, it’s a windows style graphical interface – super easy to use, fast, no thinking needed

By: blaszta

blaszta — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:49:29 +0000

@Schwinn

You can download the rainbow table at the SF project page (not in the program page)in [sourceforge.net]

And AFAIK it can only crack password using alpha numeric.

But it still useful if you inherit a system from a sysadmin that “forgot” to tell you his password for the entire system.