Lost Passwords

If you lost your windows log on password, you can try these methods:

Method 1: Log on as admin to reset the password. When installing Windows, it automatically creates an account Administrator and the default password is blank. If you have previously created a password reset disk, you can use it to reset the password also.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305 for more info.

Method 2: You can try free software such as Ophcrack,Offline NT Password & Registry Editor,PC Login Now and Kon-Boot. More details here: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/passrecovery.htm

Method 3: Use 3rd party password recovery tool (eg. Windows Password Rescuer and Windows password tools) to reset your windows password. See help page at
http://www.daossoft.com/documents/how-to-reset-window-2000xp-vista-win7-password.html

You don't need to do this, and you don't need to fork out the $250 for sysinternals NTFS Professional utility. Just check out http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/index.html. This guy made a utility that works perfectly, takes 25 seconds, works with any account, and is open source and free to download and use. Check it out, it saved me quite a headache and is going into my library of emergency tools.

I was with Terry (waskowich) when he tested this on a P133 with just 120MB drive and I watched him do this at least two different ways. I suggest you give the original author the credit here.

well, I must agree its one of the best solutions.



I published this solution (known as solution #2) online in March of 1999.



I published my first solution online in June of 1997.



my url: www.compusmart.ab.ca/theclub/terrywas/winnt/winntpwd.htm

In the time it takes to complete this method I would have the sam copied to a floppy after booting with a win98 disk that has a copy of ntfsdos. L0pht would most likely be just finished cracking the password long before logon.scr ever kicked in.