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    Retrieving or resetting the Administrator's password

    Hey,

    A friend of mine has forgotten his password. He is the only user and therefore the Administrator. Is there any way to retrieve or reset his password? It's a Windows XP machine.

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    Leon
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    Re: Retrieving or resetting the Administrator's password

    Try this

    password reset


    Then this

    Tutorial

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    Re: Retrieving or resetting the Administrator's password

    There's a tool called Ophcrack that can crack most windows passwords reasonably quickly. I'm not sure if it does Win 7, but as you said it's an XP machine then it should be fine.

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    Re: Retrieving or resetting the Administrator's password

    I've used Ophcrack fairly recently on a XP machine and can confirm it does the job fine in a fair amount of time

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    Re: Retrieving or resetting the Administrator's password

    the other way it to just reset the password rather than crack it

    give this a try:
    http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

    Edit: Oops should read other peoples posts fully...


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