Cracking passwords on Windows XP

You have just finished installing Windows XP on your computer and already there longer remember the password? Or the last time you were amended sovrappensiero and now I do not remember the most?

E 'useless star both faulted: the reasons and causes are not very important, the problem is that now you are faced with a computer that is practically inaccessible and the only way that you normally challenges is to make a new installation operating system, which besides being far involves the loss of all data on your computer ...

Fortunately, however, there is also another way to proceed: Because Windows XP/2000/2003 stores information about users and their passwords in encrypted form on a specific file named "sam", simply use a utility "special" able to identify, decrypt and edit that file. In fact, have control of the file "sam" means can completely control all users and passwords of an operating system without any limit.

The steps to follow to achieve this goal are:

Download and burn 's ISO image of the boot CD that you use to access the file on the computer "locked"
Start computer with CD boot: will be charged a minimal version of Linux that will provide full access to the file you through a wizard text in the rescue password. In particular, you must specify the partition where Windows is installed, then you'll be presented with the menus through which you can edit the data user or the password.

To get a better idea of how you can use this powerful system for cracking Windows you can watch the video below:

Via GoItExpert