Comments on: CyberNotes: Reset a Windows Password http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/comment-page-1/#comment-114915 Ryan Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:09:42 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/06/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/#comment-114915 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-114867" rel="nofollow">Inferno_str1ke wrote:</a><blockquote>A more extreme method would be to whip out the hard disk and stick it in a machine running some form of Linux, which should give you free access to your files, and a more comfortable method of running a password cracking tool to get it working fully again.</blockquote></div> The words of a true geek. :) <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-114876" rel="nofollow">BinaryMuse wrote:</a><blockquote>If you happen to be on Windows XP and have an unlocked “Administrator” account you can boot into safe mode and log in under that account and remove passwords through the Control Panel. At the Geek Squad, before we developed our own tools for removing passwords, we used the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor–works very well, just tell it to blank out a password, and is much quicker than “cracking” the password. Once booted, the whole process takes about 60 seconds. <a href="http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/" rel="nofollow">http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/</A></blockquote></div> That sounds pretty cool...I'll be keeping that in my bookmarks! Inferno_str1ke wrote:
A more extreme method would be to whip out the hard disk and stick it in a machine running some form of Linux, which should give you free access to your files, and a more comfortable method of running a password cracking tool to get it working fully again.

The words of a true geek. :)

BinaryMuse wrote:
If you happen to be on Windows XP and have an unlocked “Administrator” account you can boot into safe mode and log in under that account and remove passwords through the Control Panel.

At the Geek Squad, before we developed our own tools for removing passwords, we used the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor–works very well, just tell it to blank out a password, and is much quicker than “cracking” the password. Once booted, the whole process takes about 60 seconds. [home.eunet.no]

That sounds pretty cool…I’ll be keeping that in my bookmarks!

]]> By: BinaryMuse http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/comment-page-1/#comment-114876 BinaryMuse Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:23:44 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/06/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/#comment-114876 If you happen to be on Windows XP and have an unlocked "Administrator" account you can boot into safe mode and log in under that account and remove passwords through the Control Panel. At the Geek Squad, before we developed our own tools for removing passwords, we used the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor--works very well, just tell it to blank out a password, and is much quicker than "cracking" the password. Once booted, the whole process takes about 60 seconds. http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ If you happen to be on Windows XP and have an unlocked “Administrator” account you can boot into safe mode and log in under that account and remove passwords through the Control Panel.

At the Geek Squad, before we developed our own tools for removing passwords, we used the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor–works very well, just tell it to blank out a password, and is much quicker than “cracking” the password. Once booted, the whole process takes about 60 seconds. [home.eunet.no]

]]> By: Inferno_str1ke http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/comment-page-1/#comment-114867 Inferno_str1ke Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:02:10 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/06/cybernotes-reset-a-windows-password/#comment-114867 A more extreme method would be to whip out the hard disk and stick it in a machine running some form of Linux, which should give you free access to your files, and a more comfortable method of running a password cracking tool to get it working fully again. A more extreme method would be to whip out the hard disk and stick it in a machine running some form of Linux, which should give you free access to your files, and a more comfortable method of running a password cracking tool to get it working fully again.

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