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.

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 :6 does bios have a password also?

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.

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

format the HD, reinstall xp. it takes like 20 mins.

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

lol the point is to get to files that are still on the computer rs :S

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

there are lots of free programs to retrive files on NTFS file systems after they've been deleted.

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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

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

well there are even more FAT32 fs recovery tools ;)

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

then let's just hope that he saved it on a different partition! :P If not, :X

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.

Re: How to gain access to a password protected XP computer
 

that is a good idea.