Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista offline password editor:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswdThis is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista system, by modifying the encrypted password in the registry's SAM file.
You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppy disk or CD. The boot-disk includes stuff to access NTFS partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
Works with syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)
Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled user accounts!
Caution: If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or later service packs on W2K, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password again!
Download links:
cd070409.zip (~3MB) - Bootable CD image with newer drivers
bd050303.zip (~1.1MB) - Bootdisk image, date 050303.
sc050303.zip(~1.4MB) - SCSI-drivers (050303) (only use newest drivers with newest bootdisk, this one works with bd050303)
To write these images to a floppy disk you'll need RawWrite2 which is included in the Bootdisk image download. To create the CD you just need to use your favorite CD burning program and burn the .ISO file to CD.
For Windows XP check out the attachment Below the comments!! It WORKS .AS IT CHANGES THE XP ADMIN PSWD WITHOUT U KNOWIN THE PREVIOUS ONE
however the "net user" and
"control userpasswords2" trick still works
You can change Administrator password from guest account without using any programs. It's easy:
1. Start-> Run, type lusrmgr.msc and hit Enter.
2. You will see window with two folders:Users and Groups. Go in the Users folder, find the Administrator, right click-> Set Password and now you can change the password without knowing the old one.
