Hey, I had an admin password, but when I created a new account with limited access, suddenly my admin account doesn't regognize my old password. I didn't change it. I just added a new account with a new password for that account Help!!!! I can only get into the ocmputer on the limited account now.

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Brett: jay's solution (post-6) 'should' work - providing the file is in a fat32 area - and thus can be accesed via a '98 boot-disk... Otherwise... http://is-it-true.org specifically: http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/index.shtml#GlossP and have a browse in both NT and W2K sections)... It's an NT/W2K resource site for many (published) useful tips etc. There are other ways too - again published in recognised 'tomes'; e.g. http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=24862 is another (similarly published) approach... Otherwise - a long trawl through posts, going back over the last year or so, will bring up various solutions including the above... And there are $$$/£££'s utils around too. Stephan: similarly - any one of the above may work for you?

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Hey, I've got a truck load of stolen PC's, (maybe one of em is yours?), anyway will you give me the crack too?

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BTW, you DON'T have to format the drive to re-install.

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I have a program that will change any of the passwords with out reformating or totally screwing up your computer. It's called ERD Commander 2002. The two things that you need are: 1- Be able to boot to a CD 2- and, able to burn the CD image I send Let me know if you have an FTP site where I can dump it or we can make other arrangements. The image is 150 MB.

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i cant get in my computer but so i cant delete anything but i can boot from a disk so philly please help and i can burn a disk

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how do you delete the sam file if you cant log on. Or is there way to start up in dos mode and command prompt it

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'98 bootdisk if SAM location is fat32.

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Now that this site is an official hacker/cracker site. How bout you post some boot macros to boot people out chat rooms, maybe some back door trojans I could use to steal these peoples passwords before they "lose" them? Come on folks lets see that code, ok?

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The info re' password recovery (freebie and money versions) is on many legit sites; is there for all to see; and some/many are public-domain sites/professional publications... It's also in many legit forum archives... 'Serious hackers' will spend the cash to get successful utils to make their cracking/hacking habits easier to satisfy - regardless of what others may think about it all? Some folks 'may' know of other (unpublished/lesser-known) solutions too - but that doesn't mean they'll 'openly' offer them here... Security is a personal responsibilty issue; be careless and you risk being cracked/hacked. This applies equally to both hardware, 'we' - each of us - not someone else - look after our kit...(?) and also software - 'we' ensure 'we' have proper/adequate safeguards/policies - and that 'company' security policies are fully (rigidly?) enforced. There are probably as many genuine cases asking for help as there are bogus; does one penalise the genuine because of the bogus? If so then it's a short 'hop 'n a jump' to banning all sorts of help in many situations - not at all IT related... using the excuse that not 'all' requests are genuine. If 'one' was to suffer (perhaps seriously - life 'n limb) because of that attitude (above), I doubt 'one' would be 'quite' so " kwik to jump up'n down...?" Who is to be the judge, who is to be the jury, and who to be the executioner; and who judges the judge/jury/exectutioner? As for malicious code (back-door macros etc.) - a joke (black-humour) no doubt - but be careful; someone may oblige and 'anyone' could be the first victim - though I truly hope not...

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So just cause the cracks are avaible everywhere, including MickySoft, we should be helpfull and make it easy for anybody who asks for a password crack? Lets see, following that analogy, since people rob banks everyday we should all pitch in and help with the get away, maybe they will share the loot.

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Been following this thread with interest and can't help wondering if there's some closeted hypocracy here? Will all those people who come on so holier than thou over the lost password issue guarantee they will never utilise any similar information they find here, should they be locked out of their pcs for whatever reason? Somehow I doubt it. And as for analogies as in post-17, the problem with them is that they can all fail in the end when put to the test.

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People with a ligit password problem who actually own their computers and the OS, do not have a problem. They can re-install over top of the existing OS, or call the place they bought the puter from. Lots of options, including MS. The only reason to come to a place like this for some crack or hack is to keep something hidden, like maybe a stolen computer, or priated sofware, or they want to hack into somebody's PC. It has nothing to do with a holier than thou attitude, it has everything to do with common sense. It's not colseted hypocracy, it's indignination at having had 7 pc's stolen that I've had to replace because the salesmen have "lost". I'm not about to help anyone crack one of em.

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