ODBXXX Posted April 11, 2006 CID Share Posted April 11, 2006 A buddy of mine got drunk the other night..he was fighting with his ole lady and change his administrator password..I have already reformatted his hard drive 3 times. Hes using my copy of XP.. I was just wondering if there is any way of bypassing the password? Or getting his password? any help would be great..Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 11, 2006 CID Share Posted April 11, 2006 To get on to the admin account? There are ways of doing this.. if this is what you want to do PM me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jared Posted April 11, 2006 CID Share Posted April 11, 2006 Safe mode usually does the trick for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted April 11, 2006 CID Share Posted April 11, 2006 Mods delete this post if its a no no. Hirens boot cd is a good choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 A buddy of mine got drunk the other night..he was fighting with his ole lady and change his administrator password..I have already reformatted his hard drive 3 times. Hes using my copy of XP.. I was just wondering if there is any way of bypassing the password? Or getting his password? any help would be great..Thanks looks like to me you need a password reset disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 yeah.. winternals to the rescue.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 A buddy of mine got drunk the other night..he was fighting with his ole lady and change his administrator password..I have already reformatted his hard drive 3 times. Hes using my copy of XP.. I was just wondering if there is any way of bypassing the password? Or getting his password? any help would be great..Thanks If you buddy changed his administrator password within Windows, it should now be non-existent as you've reformatted the hard drive. Installing from a Windows XP cd should be a clean install, and it will prompt you for an Administrator password (which is optional) during the installation. Could you be referring to the password option within the bios? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 if it is bios.. i think pulling the cmos battery will take care of that.. If I remember correctly you might have to supply the admin password to reinstall? I think NT has that as an option.. not 100% sure about xp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 Yep Swimmer, on XP, it's optional. During the install, you will get to a screen which asks for you to enter an Administrator password. Leaving it blank will continue the install and not hurt anything as you can set one up later through Control Panel/User Accounts. It's not a requirement to finish the install. ODBXXX, if you didn't enter a password during install, when the password prompt comes up for you to get into Windows, just leave it blank and click Continue/OK. You should get right in. If you did enter a password during install and now you want to stop the password prompt from popping up period, here is a little guide/tutorial: 1.) Go to Start/Run and type control userpasswords2 exactly as I've typed it here. 2.) Inside of the User Accounts window, select the User Name which you want to stop from getting passworded. 3.) Remove the check from the box at the very top (Users must enter a username...). Everything will become greyed out. Click Apply. 4.) An Automatically Log On window will appear. The selected user name will be filled in already. You just need to enter a password for it and click OK. 5.) You are now back to the User Accounts window. Click OK. 6.) The system will now start without the password prompt. Note: Before following the steps listed, be sure to to enter "Start/Control Panel/User Accounts/Change an account/*User Name*/Create a password" first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mikeg19_82 Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 There's also a program you can download called "ERD Commander" that will give you the windows XP password as well. You basically make a boot CD, put it in the cd-rom, restart the computer, and you then click on password manager (or something along those lines). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 if he's reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled win it don't sound like a bios password. otherwise how would he get past it to format reinstall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 You dont have to do any of that. Download the latest greatest version of hirens boot cd. It has all the tools you need in a simple to understand format. Some may consider it a "hacker" tool. Really its not. Ever download net framework from microsoft and then the puter locks you out. This is the tool you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 thats weird i just got the new hirens 8.0 too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 12, 2006 CID Share Posted April 12, 2006 hirens is pretty good.. yeah.. a lot of that stuff is considered "hacker" but if it saves you from having to reformat or fix a computer faster.. then it is a good tool.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j3grizz Posted April 13, 2006 CID Share Posted April 13, 2006 Hirens is a very good tool and will definately do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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