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How To Hack or Crack A Windows XP Administrator Password

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How to Hack or Crack a Windows XP Administrator Password

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Forgot Windows XP administrator password? Can’t log in to your system and lose access to your important files? If that’s your only problem, then you probably have nothing to worry about. As long as you have your Windows XP installation CD, you can hack Windows XP password using a simple but effective method made possible by a little known access hole in Windows XP.

This method is easy enough for newbies to follow – it doesn’t require using the Recovery Console or any complicated commands. And it’s free – I mention that because you can pay $20 for an emergency download of Reset Windows Password utility which can help you reset/blank forgotten administrator password on all versions of Windows.

Let’s get started to learn how to hack Windows XP password for free during a Windows XP Repair. Here’s a step-by-step instructions to hack Windows XP password with a installation disc:

1. Place your Windows XP CD in your CD-ROM and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable – as it should be – and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)

2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your CD Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from CD”

3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.

4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now

5. The Licensing Agreement comes next – Press F8 to accept it.

6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair. It should read something like “If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it”. Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.

7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.

8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically – you will see a progress bar stating “Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds”

9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of “pressing any key” to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.

10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.

11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.

12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you’ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair.

13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

Home » Security » How to Hack Into a Windows XP Computer Without Changing the Password

We have previously talked about how to Recover the Windows Login password within minutes which allows you to recover your Windows password online. Another method to login to a password protected Windows even if you do not have the password is by making Windows accept any password, and this is a far better way to get into Windows XP. It is easy and it does not reset the password which will definitely alert the administrator of the computer. Kon-Boot is another fantastic tool for doing this and there are free and paid versions available that will allow access to Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and even Linux without knowing the password. Kon-Boot is also present on the great Hiren’s Boot CD rescue disc.

There are also other useful methods getting into a password protected Windows such as cracking the password so you can find out what the real password is. Hacking into a computer running Windows XP without changing or resetting the password will allow you to find out all and any passwords on the machine (including admin accounts). You do not need access to any accounts to do this, but of course, do not perform this method on anyone else’s computer without proper authorization. The hacking method described below works only on Windows XP.

Steps to Hack into a Windows XP Computer without changing password:

1. Get physical access to the machine. Remember that it must have a CD or DVD drive.

2. Download DreamPackPL.

3. Unzip the downloaded dpl.zip with the password raymond and you’ll get a dpl.ISO image.

4. Burn the ISO using a burning program that is capable of burning ISO images.

5. After you have the disc, boot it from the CD or DVD drive. You will see Windows 2000 Setup and it will load some files.

6. Press “R” to install DreamPackPL. If you get a “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer” error, refer to this post on the subject.

7. Press “C” to install DreamPackPL by using the recovery console.

8. Select the Windows installation that is currently on the computer (Normally is “1” if you only have one Windows installed).

9. Backup your original sfcfiles.dll by typing:

ren C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll sfcfiles.lld

10. Copy the hacked file from CD to System32 folder. Type the following (assuming your CD drive is D:):

copy D:\i386\pinball.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll

11. Type “exit“, take out disk and reboot to Windows normally.

12. In the user password field, type “dreamon” (without quotes) and the DreamPack menu will appear.

13. Click the top gray graphic in the DreamPack window and you will get a menu popup. Go to Commands -> Commands Settings.

14. In the Commands Settings window, enable the God-Password by putting a tick in its box. Click OK.

15. Now type “god” into the user password field to get in Windows.

You can also go to the DreamPackPL Passwords menu and select “Logon with wrong password and hash”. This option allows you to login with ANY password instead of using god everytime.

Note: We were unable to bring up the DreamPackPL for the first time because Kaspersky Anti-Virus was already running in background. Most antivirus software today has already labeled this tool as a Hack-Tool. A Hack-Tool is NOT a virus. DreamPackPL merely helps you bypass the Windows Login screen and it is not destructive. For your information, files that are not detected aren’t necessarily 100% safe because there are private crypter tools being sold in underground forums that can make a detected file fully undetected by any antivirus.

Power Tip: If you are on Windows 7, we discovered that there is a working backdoor method where you can run an elevated command prompt with system privileges. This will allow you to reset any user account password or even creating a new administrator account without even logging in.

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