windows xp home edition, bypass admin password?

[telusguy]

can anyone help me bypass the admin password for "windows xp home edition"?

http://www.easywindows.com/messages/5431.html

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

[Ryanoffski]

does this work with professional as well? My dad forgot his admin password on his computer.

yes, and to other members this is not considered hacking as you physically need access to the computer to boot up to the floopy. this is to change the password, not recover


and if you use this to bypass the password that your parents set up, they will notice as soon as they try to log on and there password isnt right

[RicheemxX]

Originally posted by GroundZero3
yes, and to other members this is not considered hacking as you physically need access to the computer to boot up to the floopy. this is to change the password, not recover


and if you use this to bypass the password that your parents set up, they will notice as soon as they try to log on and there password isnt right

I know where this was meant my thoughts is this is going to be used for a laptop to me that might be considered questionable... just my thoughts

[Gettinbye]

Nothing questionable about it. Long gone are the days of a .pwl edit-and let's face it, people do, on occasion, forget their password(s).

[rpertusio]

Just a note of caution..
I've tried the utility GroundZero3 mentioned, and it has caused many problems on 2 of my systems.. so much that I had to format and start all over. Just be careful! (Note: It was a few months ago that I did this and things went screwy. When it went south on one machine, I was dumb enough to see if it would cause trouble on my 2nd machine.. and it did.)

Also note... there is a way to recover a password, but I wont go into details, for too many would abuse the power.

However, there is a 3rd easy way, with one caveat. IF you are logged on with an Administrator account (even if not named 'administrator') you can reset the passwords of other users. This would probably be the easiest solution, if your user is already in the administrative group.

- rp

[telusguy]

thanks guys....yea, i definatly forgot my password on my work computer....and i havent been able to do any work for the fast 2 days, thanks, u've been a great help

Originally posted by rpertusio
Just a note of caution..
I've tried the utility GroundZero3 mentioned, and it has caused many problems on 2 of my systems.. so much that I had to format and start all over. Just be careful! (Note: It was a few months ago that I did this and things went screwy. When it went south on one machine, I was dumb enough to see if it would cause trouble on my 2nd machine.. and it did.)

Also note... there is a way to recover a password, but I wont go into details, for too many would abuse the power.

However, there is a 3rd easy way, with one caveat. IF you are logged on with an Administrator account (even if not named 'administrator') you can reset the passwords of other users. This would probably be the easiest solution, if your user is already in the administrative group.

- rp

you are correct

as stated in the second webpage

What can go wrong? Lots of things can go wrong, but most faults won't damage your system. The most critical moment is when writing back the registry files to NTFS. Also, the file written back may be corrupt (from chntpw messing it up), preventing your NT system from booting properly. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! One indication of a corrupt SAM is that the Netlogon service will fail to start, which again means it's impossible to log in. Or it will simply just reboot forever. Also, see the FAQ for help with common problems. For linux-knowledged people, you may do things manually if the scripts fail, you have shells on tty1-tty4 (ALT F1 - ALT F4).