Hacking Windows XP Passwords
Please note - this technique requires physical access to the machine in question. If you have this, hacking into any Operating System becomes fairly trivial.
TheTechMen has
this method using a Linux CD-ROM and a cool tool:
Have you ever forgotten the password for one of your computers? Chances are, everyone reading this article has lost their password once, if not many times. It's very frustrating isn't it? I couldn't agree more. Well thankfully, if you've lost the password to one of your computers that's running Windows XP, 2000, or NT, it won't be too hard to retrieve it.
Actually, it's so simply to hack the Windows XP password it's sometimes scary. In short, all the hacker needs to do is slip a Linux CD into your computer, load and run a program called SamInside, and wait as SamInside decodes one system file that can easily be found in the windows folder - leaving absolutely no tracks for you to find.
Another option is to give
these fine people $60 for the non-commercial license and get their utility that does this without having to run Linux. They also have a 30-day Demo available for download. Here is the link to
some of their other password recovery tools.
Posted by DaveH at April 23, 2005 11:18 PM