How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
10-26-2005, 12:03 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
There's a program called Cain and Able that I used to retrieve a password at school when some jackass changed the passwords on all the lab computers. It also does about a million other neat things too.
10-26-2005, 12:19 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
well if the windows admin password is alredy set install windows again over the current version then do the thing with apache that i said dont reformat the disk when you reinstall though 
does bios have a password also?
does bios have a password also?
10-26-2005, 02:17 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
you can't use that program cain; it was a pwl brute force attacker; 2k based os's use a different way to store passwords than 9x did.
As someone said before there is a bootable linux ou tthere that you can use to OVERWRITE user accounts passwords then set your own. I've used that ---- tons of times.
i'm not even going to begin on how to get it because its hard to use and you can frag a whole xp install if you do something wrong.
As someone said before there is a bootable linux ou tthere that you can use to OVERWRITE user accounts passwords then set your own. I've used that ---- tons of times.
i'm not even going to begin on how to get it because its hard to use and you can frag a whole xp install if you do something wrong.
10-26-2005, 03:57 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Originally Posted by random-strike
format the HD, reinstall xp. it takes like 20 mins.
10-26-2005, 04:18 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Reinstalling Windows XP should get rid of the whole password problem...
but who's to say it was NTFS? I know our school's computers were still FAT32 with XP :1
but who's to say it was NTFS? I know our school's computers were still FAT32 with XP :1
10-26-2005, 04:19 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Originally Posted by random-strike
format the HD, reinstall xp. it takes like 20 mins.
Yeah it's too late now, but you could try running it as a second HD and try to access the files. I know when my HD wouldn't boot, literally, I couldn't do anything, just a blue screen. I bought another HD and just ran the original one as a secondary and was able to access the files no problem.
10-26-2005, 04:23 PM
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Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
Originally Posted by AgentMurdoc
Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Originally Posted by random-strike
format the HD, reinstall xp. it takes like 20 mins.
Yeah it's too late now, but you could try running it as a second HD and try to access the files. I know when my HD wouldn't boot, literally, I couldn't do anything, just a blue screen. I bought another HD and just ran the original one as a secondary and was able to access the files no problem.
