Austrumi

[gotdamojo06]

Has anyone ever heard of this program to recover your lost Windows password?

 

I downloaded the .ISO of it a while ago, but never ended up using it, dont know if it even does what it is supposed to do.

[cold_snipe]

whats with you and forgetting passwords

no idea thought

[Fireonice]

Its called booting in safe mode.... or making a password recovery thingy on another windows xp computer.

[gotdamojo06]

I just like to be safe, so i create weird passwords, and sometimes forget them due to the work load up in college.

 

Plus like to be prepared for the worst case...ya know?

[wildfirre]

Hello,

 

You can use Active@ Password Changer utility to quickly reset forgotten or lost windows password

http://www.password-changer.com/

[sYstEmATiC]

Hello,

 

You can use Active@ Password Changer utility to quickly reset forgotten or lost windows password

http://www.password-changer.com/

that program works, ive used it before and it only takes 2 or 3 minutes to get working.

[Kamikaze_Badger]

There's a way you can get it if the Active PW Changer thing that our spammeh friend here posted doesn't work for you. Bit hard to explain, so I'll PM you.

[romeo55]

Austrumi includes a TOOL on the older linux distro, NOT the 10.xx version, but the .92 version. So DL the older version

 

The tool located on the disk is the SAME AS THIS You may just want to go with this instead, unless you want a bootable linux CD

 

So, if you do decide to use Austrumi, here are the steps

 

Boot off the CD

When it comes to the Boot screen, it will say BOOT: . Now Just type in "nt_pass" This will start and boot off the above tool.

Follow the onscreen directions until you get to your account screen. Then select the accoutn you want to change

CHANGE it to blank!!!! DO NOT change it to something else, IT WILL NOT work. (Blank is * )

now hit Q or ! to save, (I forget which) then hit q again, it will ask you if you want to save these changes and it will write them

Boot off of the OS as usual

then it will run a disk check LET IT RUN! Otherwise it will just go back to your previous PW

There ya go

 

NOTE!!!! In XP SP2, if you change the PW of a particular user like this without going to the user accounts tool in the control panel, you lose EVERYTHING under C://Documents and Settings/XXXXXUSER which includes, cookies, My Documents etc. These files are encrypted according to the PW, so once you change it, you lost it. It will come up with a "Access Denied"

 

And I hope you aren't using this for illegal purposes...

[Kamikaze_Badger]

He could also use Cain to do it, which allows the modification of windows passwords I think.