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USB flash driver another way to retrieve forgot or lost windows password

Have you ever met the thing forgotten or lost your windows password? If we get a Windows XP CD,or have created a windows password reset disk,this is simply nothing for us.But if we just dont get a CD driver for some reason,then what should we do to remove the windows password.

When you met one bad thing that you cant solve,believe this,everything will be better, because it can not be worse more.So it is.

Now learn the way to remove your lost or forgotten windows password in case of you get no CD driver,just use the USB flash driver. See the windows how to protect and store your windows password.

1. Password Hash:

When you type in password in Windows XP, NT, 2000 login windows, windows operating system converts (encrypts) these passwords in something like this:

7524248b4d2c9a9eadd3b435c51404ee

This is called password hash and this encryption is done using high level encryption schemes.

2. SAM Files:

In windows Operating system, these password hashes of every user account are stored in SAM Files. When user types in password on login screen, windows compares this SAM file contents with typed password and allows access (if matched). So, it is necessary to get these SAM files, if you want to recover your password.

3. Retrieve the password from the SAM file:

a). This SAM File is locked during active windows session and hence cannot be accessed without booting. Thus, you have to boot system from another Operating System (NTFSDOS or Linux usually) and then copy SAM File to floppy drive or convenient external device like USB flash drive.(Now we use USB flash drive)

b). Then insert the USB flash driver into another computer,and this tool LC4 is needed(Get from: http://www.net-security.org/software.php?id=17).Run LC4,and create a new task,then click “IMPORT->Import from sam file” open the SAM file which is need to be decrypted,you have copied it into the usb driver,then,LC4 will auto analysis the SAM file,and show the account.Then click “Session->Begin Audit”,starting to retrieve the password stored in the SAM file.If the password is not very complex, you will get the result your forgotten windows password in a shot time.

Just know such tools for windows password recovery.

1. Kon-Boot(http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/)

But I had some problems with it doing an infinity loop when I tried to use Kon-Boot from a USB flash drive (worked fine on the same box from a CD). Then I find an article guide you to use it correctly.Read on Using Kon-Boot from a USB Flash Drive: Bypass those pesky Windows and Linux login passwords completely

2.USB ophcrack

If you think this is the normal ophcrack. You must be wrong.

This is the ophcrack update by some computer-lover.

Download USB ophcrack.USB Ophcrack flash drive creation essentials:

Windows Computer (Windows XP or Vista)

1GB or larger flash drive (fat32 formatted)

USBOphcrack.exe

Next to show the steps to create a bootable Ophcrack flash drive:

1. Download and launch USBOphcrack.exe , extracting to your PC (contents are extracted to a directory called USBOphcrack)

2. Click USBOphcrack.bat from the USBOphcrack folder on your computer, and follow the onscreen instructions. Note that the ISO downloads, USB conversion and installation to your flash drive will take some time.

3. Reboot your PC and set your system to boot from the USB device

If all goes well, you should be booting from the USB stick into a mini Linux environment. Ophcrack is launched automatically after the system has booted. You should now be able to recover both Windows XP and Windows Vista login Passwords using this single USB tool.

The way is not so easy compared with protecting your password well.Jut do it.

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Create a windows password reset disk using a floppy disk for a new computer inadvance

Just get a new computer? Then you need to consider of the security for your computer,we could set a password for ours computer.but maybe we would have forgotten ours windows password one day,its a trouble thing ,and in order to clear the password could spend us some time and energy.Want to avoid that trouble,we can use a floppy disk to create a windows password reset disk before we forgot windows password.

This will guide you through the process of creating a windows password reset disk for local user accounts on your PC. Please note that to create a windows password reset disk on a domain, the process is different and out of scope for this tutorial.

To complete this tutorial, you will need some kind of removable media like a floppy drive or a USB flash/pen drive.

It is strongly recommend that you create a windows password reset disk because it allows you to reset the password to your user account if you forget your old password. To create a windows password recovery disk, you need to use the Forgotten Password Wizard. There are 2 methods you can use to open the Forgotten Password Wizard.

Method 1 – Starting the Forgotten Password Wizard using a Limited Account.

If your user account has limited privileges, you can create a windows password reset disk by using the following steps.

Step 1 – Open the Start Menu.

Step 2 – Click on Control Panel.

Step 3 – Open the User Accounts Tool.

Step 4 – Click on the Prevent a forgotten password button in the left hand pane.

Method 2 – Starting the Forgotten Password Wizard using a computer Administrator Account.

If your user account has administrative privileges, you can create a windows password reset disk by using the following steps.

Step 1 – Open the Start Menu.

Step 2 – Click on Control Panel.

step 3 – Open the User Accounts Tool.

Step 4 – Click on your account name.

Step 5 – Click on the Prevent a forgotten password button in the left hand pane.

Creating your Windows Password Reset Disk.

Once you have opened the Forgotten Password Wizard using either of the 2 methods above, the wizard will guide you through the necessary steps to create the windows password reset disk. There are only 2 steps. The first is to enter your current password, and the second is to insert your removable media device. After that, the wizard will create your windows password reset disk for you.

After you create the windows password reset disk,then it wont be such difficult for you to reset it to another password and login windows when you forgot windows password.

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Four methods for you to recover windows adminnistrator password

Forgot or lost windows administrator password, and cant log into the system?Do we really have no ways to solve it by ourselves except for reinstalling or reformatting the windows OS? No,it’s the last way we should choose because of the data losing.You can manage it according to the following ways first:

1st method:

Follow the steps,then could help:

1. Reboot your machine.

2. Press F8 before the Windows boot screen appears.

Do not press F5 as used on the NT/9x series of Windows.

3. You will be be prompted with a boot options menu.

4. Select the Start Windows in Safe Mode option.

5. Click through several self-explanatory screens until your reach the familiar ‘Welcome’ screen.

6. Note that this welcome screen is limited to 256 colors and 640×480 resolution because the primary graphics will have been set to the Windows Safe Mode software VGA adapter. You will not be able to change this mode even in Display options, while Windows is running in Safe Mode.

7. Find the icon for the Administrator user. If the default settings of your system haven’t been changed, there should be no password for this account. The Safe Mode Welcome screen might display some of the other users on your system..

8. Login as the admin.

9. Press Yes at the prompt asking if you would like to continue using Safe Mode.

10. Continue on to the User Settings control panel. Here you can change any of the other passwords for user on the machine. Make any changes you want.

11. Reboot your computer. As long as you don’t press any keys (i.e. F8) during the boot-up the computer will startup normally.

12. Login as the user for which you set the password.

2nd method:

The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:

Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.

Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.

3rd method

Use windows password recovery tool.”any windows password recovery 3.0” is based on Windows graphical user interfa.Now follow the steps to reset windows password:

1. Download any windows password recovery 3.0.

2. Burn the ISO image file onto a blank CD/DVD disk.

3. Insert the CD/DVD disk into the locked computer and reboot,then select an account to reset.

After restart the computer again,the password of the account you select in step 3 has been reset to blank.( http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/how_to_use.html )If you created a disk in past, you can use that disk to reset windows password.

4th method:

The way with the risk of losing data.

Use Reset Disk to reinstall windows operating system.

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Forgot windows password?Use windows password recovery tool to reset password

Forgot windows password?A way to bypass windows password for you.

Considering of the security,we usually need to set a password for ours computer.If we dont often use,then its possible to be forgotten.That is a normal thing,dont be so anxious.So we should know some ways to solve the problem,except for re-installing windows,it feels trouble and could be lost some important data.We can utilize some windows password recovery tool,l suggest “any windows password recovery 3.0” ,its a tool with genuine Windows GUI.More,the windows password recovery tool ISO image file can be burnt onto CD/DVD easily with the built-in free burner software.If i forgot my windows password one day,i could use the reset disk to reset it again.

The windows password recovery tool “any windows password recovery 3.0” is a .iso image file,you can get it from the link:http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/download.html

Then burn it to a blank cd ,its all we need.Or you dont have a disk burnner yet,then this soft could help you,the address:http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/downloads/burncdcc.exe

Restart computer and insert it to the cd driver,we can operate it easily with the intuitive windows graphical user interface.

After restart again,the forgotten windows password has been reset to blank.So easy!

Whats more,this windows password recovery tool “any windows password recovery 3.0” can provide some windows versions,including the latest windows 7,windows xp,windows vista,windows 2000/2003/2008/NT.

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