Earlier we written about how to recover Admin Password using ERD Commander, Now here we writing about few more ways to do the same. There are several utilities and methods to recover Windows Password, among those we picked few best ones, so that now onwards you need not to worry as We have brought together several utilities which can recover Admin password for your Windows Vista/XP box. They are discussed in details as given below -
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (Now comes with Vista Support)
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
This utility can be used to reset or set the password for any user for a local account on your Windows NT (or Windows XP/ Vista) based system. This utility will set password without using old password, and it can recover administrator users password as well. It does not work while you running your Windows so basically you have to boot from removable media (floppy Cd etc..) in order to run it, thus you will need to have access to Machine and to bios to change the boot order if required.
It can also unlock, disabled or locked user account along with resetting password and it can also work as Registry editor in Offline mode. So it comes real handy for manual removal of Trojan and Viruses, which are not being removed by your Anti virus, or which does not allow you to open Registry editor while windows is running.
Windows passwords are stored in system in encrypted form located in system32config directory. This file is also part of windows registry. But using Offline NT Password & Registry Editor we can edit this file as well as registry which is normally in Binary format.
To recover password, just download the iso file from above site, burn it to a cd and boot from it after which it will allow you to delete or reset password from the menu, and you are done. It is very easy and simple to use menu driven program.
Òphcrâck 2.4.1
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ophcrack
Ophcrack is based on rainbow table method and can actually crack your windows password and show them on screen, This can be used for hacking the system, but again like others you need to download ISO image of their bootable CD, burn it and boot your PC using this CD. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux. More details about it are given below -
Ophcrack Live CD
The ophcrack Live CD contains a small Linux system (SLAX6), ophcrack for Linux and rainbow tables which can recover most of alphanumeric passwords in few seconds. It actually decrypts the password and show them on screen instead of resetting or deleting them. It also works on Windows Vista with latest version. To use it Visit their site (mentioned above), choose correct Live CD version you need, download ISO File. Burn the ISO file to a CD and boot from CD. Choose correct option from the menu and in few seconds it will show you the passwords.
The Only disadvantage of this program is you have to download a relatively large ISO file (about 400MB), and some of Anti virus flags it as malware because of it’s ability to actually show passwords.
Windows Password Recovery from LoginRecovery
http://www.loginrecovery.com
Login Recovery is a paid service to recover user names and their password for Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. if you can physically access your computer, this service can recover your password. Most of the security agencies and other professional use there service as they do not change anything on hard disk and only shows the password by reading it.
This also requires you to download an image file from their website and then use it for booting your computer. this program is available in Floppy as well as CD format. Only disadvantage of this is you have to pay to actually reveal the passwords.
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Very nice article,thanks
It worked for me
Keep up tyhe good work.Cheers.
If you forget the administrator’s password but still can log on Windows with other user names that have administrative privileges, you may follow the instructions below:
Right click the computer icon on your desktop, select Manage, find Local Users and Groups, unfold Users folder, right click Administrator, click Set password… in the menu comes up. Click Proceed in the dialog, in the pop-up, enter a New Password and confirm it. Your administrator’s password is successfully reset.
Guest account may help to log onto Windows, but it has no privilege for you to do the above to reset the administrator’s password.
If you forgot all user passwords and failed to log onto Windows, there is no other way but to format the OS and reinstall Windows, or resort to sort of software tools to remove the password and log onto Windows. These programs cost some bucks, but are worthy and better than to reinstall the OS causing consequences. The most popular programs are Windows Password Reset 6.0 etc. Generally, these programs are easy to use though turn out to be a scary command prompt to newbie. But do relax and you can fully manipulate. Let’s take Windows Password Reset 6.0 for example. You prepare a blank CD, burn the program onto the CD, boot the locked computer from the CD, come to initiate the program, locate the user name, and proceed to remove its password – all are at ease.
http://www.resetwindowspassword.com/
I have downloaded windows password key 8.0. It is a very quick and useful utility for resetting passwords. It not only supports XP, 2000, and NT, I have personally tested it with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. It works perfectly to reset any local user account to a blank password.
Just an easy to use bootable CD/DVD . It can also be used on a USB Flash Drive.
this actually helps, now i encounter the troubles and i donot know how to resolve,
i research bing and found your blog,
thanks once againone thing, may i post this entry on my site? i will add the source and credit to your site.regards!
A few days ago, I had met the headache things that I had forgotten Windows login password. The login screen rejected my passwords. I was frustrated because there was very important data on my disk and I couldn’t reinstall the OS. …………. However, I fortunately got to know the Windows Password Unlocker, which is a professional windows password recovery tool for us to reset windows 7 passwordinstantly yet no data loss.
Pls send me ERD Software for Opening Administrator Password break.
Thanks regards
Sandeep Pharasi