Most of us have experienced a
situation where in we need to gain access to a computer which is
password protected or at times we may forget the administrator password
without which it becomes impossible to login to the computer. So here
is an excellent hack using which you can reset the password or make the
password empty (remove the password) so that you can
gain administrator access to the computer. You can do this with a small
tool called Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. This
utility works offline, that means you need to shut down your computer
and boot off your using a floppy disk, CD or USB device (such as pen
drive). The tool has the following features.
- You do not need to know the old password to set a new one
- Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
- There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.
How it works?
Most Windows operating systems stores the
login passwords and other encrypted passwords in a file called sam
(Security Accounts Manager). This file can be usually found
in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of Windows registry and
remains inaccessible as long as the OS is active. Hence it is
necessary that you need to boot off your computer and access this sam
file via boot. This tool intelligently gains access to this file and
will reset/remove the password associated with administrator or any
other account.
Offline NT Password & Reg Editor Download
It is recommended that you download
the CD version of the tool since floppy drive is outdated and doesn’t
exist in today’s computer. Once you download you’ll get a bootable
image which you need to burn it onto your CD. Now boot your computer
from this CD and follow the screen instructions to reset the password.
Another simple way to reset non-administrator account passwords
Here is another simple way through which
you can reset the password of any non-administrator accounts. The only
requirement for this is that you need to have administrator privileges.
Here is a step-by-step instruction to accomplish this task.
2. Now type net user and hit Enter
3. Now the system will show you a list of user accounts on the computer. Say for example you need to reset the password of the account by name John, then do as follows
4. Type net user John * and hit Enter. Now the system will ask you to enter the new password for the account. That’s it. Now you’ve successfully reset the password for John without knowing his old password.
So in this way you can reset the password of any Windows account at times when you forget it so that you need not re-install your OS for any reason. I hope this helps.
