Password recovery

• UnidentifiedX

  3 Apr 08, 11:17

  I cant remember the password to my laptop. It is using the windows vista. Is there any way that i can recover the password without losing my files?

   

  Need help urgently.

   

  Thanks!

• ndmmxiaomayi

  3 Apr 08, 14:54

  Unlike XP where we could hack, I'm afraid for Vista, no hacks work.

• kenn3th

  3 Apr 08, 18:32

  Wala! Try this.

   

  Petter Nordahl-Hagen has written a Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista offline password editor:

  http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

  • This 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 out 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!