re: XP Password
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Richard Harris
(239 messages posted)
Try OPHCRACK, free from http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
The "live CD" will boot a PC, outside of XP, then try to read the encrypted passwords
and then decode them using something called rainbow tables.
Note that this software with finite rainbow tables will not decode all passwords,
but can get many of them. Short passwords have a better chance than long ones.
It runs in about 2 minutes on a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 Gig or RAM.
Good luck.
On Friday, October 12, 2007 at 6:58 am, vkfreelancer wrote:
>I forgot my windows xp password for the logon welcome screen. Heres the steps i
>try and fail:
>1. Disable from safemode. It ask me for the pass word before i get to the desktop
>2. Revert to an earlier state that I can remember a password. I still do not remember
>the password
>3. Using linux software in an attempt to either remove the password or change it
>to something else. It didn't work.
>
>I am on a p4 1.3ghz with xp pro service pack 1.
>I use another type of program and I got a hash code like this
>
>Administrator:500:f5,25,DD,7A,9C,59,ED,27,52,DB,7F,97,5F,79,0F,7B,EF:
>_F1,34,B9,92,E4,ED,4F,A3,F5,0E,A0,AD,3D,4B,BD,2D,XX:::
- Written in response to:
- XP Password (vkfreelancer: Friday, October 12, 2007 at 6:58 am)
There are presently no replies to this message.
|
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: XP Password (Richard Harris: Fri, Oct 12, 2007, 3:30 pm) |
|
