Access another user Account with Admin rights

Lost your Windows password? Here’s what you can do to get around

Due to the security features built into Windows XP, it is virtually impossible to get back into the system without the password.

You have several options to try and get around this problem.

If you have access to another user account with administrator rights, you can use that account to change the password of the account that is locked out. You can also use the default Administrator account that is built into Windows XP.

First you need to boot the system into Safe Mode.

1. Restart your system.
2. When you see the blue screen, press the ( F8 ) key about 3 times a second.
3. You should get the Windows startup menu. Use the (Up or Down) arrow keys to highlight (SafeMode).
4. Press (Enter) on (Safe Mode), then press (Enter) on (Windows XP).
5. The system should boot to Safe Mode.

Once you are at the Account Log on Screen, click on the icon for the user account with administrator rights, or click on the icon for the administrators account.

Note: For Home the Administrator account isn’t normally shown & in Safe Mode you have to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys twice to show. For PRO you can do this in normal mode

When the system has booted to the desktop, use the following steps to change the accounts password.

1. Click Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools.
2. Click Computer Management.
3. Double click Local Users and Groups, double click the folder Users.
4. Right click on the account name that is locked out, and click on Set Password.
5. You may get a warning message about changing the password, simply click proceed.
6. Leave the New Password box blank, also leave the Confirm Password box blank.
7. Click OK, and OK again.
8. Then close all Windows, reboot the system and try to log in.

There are also applications that can recover the password for you.

If the above information does not help in recovering the password, the only option left is to format the hard drive then reinstall Windows and the system software.

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Logon to any password protected Windows machine without knowing the password

Today we will show you proof of concept on how you can log on to any password protected Windows machine, without knowing the password at all. I am sure you have heard of utilities which will "reset" or "recover the Windows login password for you, but this is way cooler than that, this utility will not write or reset anything to the hard drive. After you are done, on the next reboot the machine will retain its original password. There is no "reset" or lengthy recovery involved. The 5 step process is so easy that after you have seen this, you will be shaking your head

We are going to demonstrate this process on a Windows XP service pack 3 machine, but the process is essentially exactly the same for other versions of Windows such as Windows 7, Vista, Windows Server 2003 or even Windows 2000 workstation and server. Most of the magic will be done by a nifty utility from Kryptos logic called Kon-Boot, which you can download from its web page located athttp://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/. This same utility can also be used to log on to Linux systems, but that is outside the scope of this article, we will concentrate only on Windows. You will need to download the .iso file from the Kon-Boot website and burn it to a CD. If you need instructions on how to burn a CD from an iso image using a free tool, you can read up on it on our article here. Next, make sure that the BIOS is set to boot from the CD drive. With the CD in the drive, boot the machine

Step1: - After the machine boots from the CD, you will see the splash screen as shown on the left hand side. Simply hit enter to continue

Step 2: - After hitting enter in the previous step, you will find this second splash screen. This is important as as soon as you hit enter on this screen, you will be taken to the next step, which is booting Windows, there are no other steps to configure here. In a few minutes, the normal Windows boot menu will appear, just proceed as you normally do in your normal logon sequence to Windows

Step 3: - On Windows Logon screen, fill in the name of the user whom you want to log on as, leave the password blank and hit enter

Step 4: - Olla! you are logged in! and what's the coolest thing, you have not reset the password for the account at all. It simply let you in because it interacted with the kernel directly using Linux. No alteration was done to any hard drive content at all during the process of logging in.

Step 5: - Remove the CD from the drive, and reboot. Your machine will now present you the normal ctrl+alt+del screen like it always use to, try logging on with the username we tried before with the blank password! The blank password will not work, you can only get in if you knew what the right password was..this demonstrates that the user password was never reset, it still is what it use to be.

As you can see that this nifty little cd can be of many uses, you do not need to reinstall or repair Windows if you have forgotten your password. If you are locked out, you can use this to log in as well. It also brings raises a question on Windows security. Once again, this method is exceptionally fast and does not actually reset the password. If you have for some reason the need to "recover" and "reveal" a user's password, you can use the tutorial I wrote earlier here and it will actually show you what the password is.

If the method I described above, is being used to gain unauthorized access to then there are really only two ways of protecting against such an intrusion:

1. Block Physical access to the machine or prevent users from hooking in USB devices or booting from CD ROMs and floppies

2. Encrypt your sensitive data. We will cover a step by step article on how to use encryption to protect your data in a forthcoming article

Hopefully this has been informative for you. If you have any further questions, please do leave us a comment or contact us through the Contact Us link on this web site.

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• First open Notepad and copy below codes

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• Now save the notepad file as talk.vbs
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• What is Registry ?

        Windows registry is hierarchical database that stores configuration setting and option on microsoft windows operating system.It contains settings for low level operating system component as well as applications running on windows.
        Registry is also called as Brain of Windows which store all information in form ofregistry keys Technically known as DWORD or STRING or BINARY or MULTI_STRING values which stores data.

• How to enable Registry Editor disabled by Admin ?

         1. Open Notepad and copy below codes.

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         3. Double click the save file.
         4. Done !!

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When you login to your Windows 7 computer (assuming you haven’t used something like this tutorial to turn on automatic login), you’ll generally see a login window with a background looking something like this.
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It’s fine; there’s nothing wrong with it. But sometimes a change is good so in this article we’ll show you how to change the background image behind the login screen to anything you want.


The first step is to open up the Start Menu by clicking the orb in the lower left corner of the screen.


Now, in the Start Menu search box, type regedit, to open up the Registry Editor.


When the Registry Editor appears in the Start Menu, click the Enter key to launch it. You should see a window like this.

Now, right-click on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, and choose the Find option.
The search window will appear so perform a search for OEMBackground.
It will eventually be found under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background (you could navigate there directly, but the search function is probably quicker than typing all that into the path bar.


Note: it’s possible that OEMBackground doesn’t exist on your system; if this is the case, adding a new DWORD value with the name of OEMBackground will fix things.


Once you can see the OEMBackground entry, double click to reveal its properties, and change the value from 0 (the default) to 1 (which will allow us – or the computer’s OEM as intended – to change the login screen background).


Once this is finished you can close the Registry Editor and open up Windows Explorer. We want to go to %windir%\system32\oobe, so enter that into the path bar.


You’ll now need to create an info folder (all lowercase), and then a new folder, named backgrounds (also lowercase), inside the info folder. Depending on your computer’s OEM, you may find these folders already exist and may already have images in them, placed there by Dell or HP or IBM, etc.


Now simply select a favorite wallpaper. It should be in JPG format and less than 245 KB in size (and ideally the exact dimensions of your display to avoid stretching). Name this image backgroundDefault.jpg and place it in the backgrounds folder.


You can now restart, lock your screen or logout to see your new login screen.

Congratulations! This isn’t the simplest process, and isn’t as simple as using a program like Windows 7 Logon Background Changer, but if you want to get into the particulars regarding what programs like that are doing, this is a good way to go, if a bit more complex.

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So you think it is time to format? Well try this method first, it will save you a great amount of time and work. Let's assume your current Windows folder is named C:\Windows. While in DOS, rename the Windows folder to something like Winold, and then install Windows to a new folder named Windows. Now you have a clean installation of Windows, and the new Windows will have installed many of your setting from you old Windows Registry. Because the setup program will see and read the old registry.

To accomplish this you will need to get to a DOS prompt. If your Windows is no a NTFS drive, you will not be able to rename your existing Windows folder, you will need to install Windows to a new folder with a different name. And none of your setting will be imported to the new installation.

If you have FAT or FAT32, go to the drive letter you have Windows installed to. Then type the following, changing the drive letter in the example to the drive letter that you have Windows installed to. At the  C:\> prompt type "REN Windows Winold" without the quotes. Now you ready to install Windows to a new folder named Windows.

The next thing you are going to need is to copy or move your old Start Menu to the new Windows folder. You will also want to move your Winold\SendTo folder to Windows\SendTo. If you do not find these folders under the Winold folder they will be in the Documents and Setting folder and will not need to be moved. You'll only need to create the same user name you had before. You can also move your Cookies and other folders that you want.

Now start each of your programs one by one, and if any program complains about a file missing copy it from the Winold folder to the new Windows folder. Easy Recovery now has a utility included in it that will do this for you. Simple show Easy Recovery once where your old Windows folder is and Easy Recovery will remember. Then tell Easy Recovery the file you want, Easy Recovery will find the file and move it to the new Windows folder. If the folder the file was found in does not exist in the new Windows folder, Easy Recovery will create the new folder for you.

You will find that many of your programs will start right up without a problem, and many others will require only one or two files to be moved. Your larger programs like Word of Word Perfect will need to be reinstalled. But you will have save yourself an enormous amount of time.

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Can I use a Recovery Disk on a Different Computer?

Lately I have been getting quit a few emails asking about installing Windows XP from a recovery disk to different computer than the CD is for. Sure you can but not if the disk is from a Dell and you want to use the disk on an HP; or the hardwar is different. Windows will not boot up after it is installed. Here is the email and my reply that prompted me to post this newsletter.

(Sharon): Hi, I am so glad I came upon you on the internet site.  I hope you will be able to help me. Specifically, I want to know if your software and/or written instructions will assist me to install an operating system (and/or other software) from a recovery disk?  Let's say that I have a Dell computer with Windows XP and recovery disks to reinstall XP should I have a need to do so.  Moreover, let's say that I also have an HP with Windows Vista.  I want to remove Vista from the HP and install XP using the XP on the Dell recovery disks.  Can you help me to do that?  What would I need to do so, how would I acquire it, and what would be the cost? Thank you so much for your time.

(Easy Desk): Sharon, You cannot use a recovery disk to install to a different computer. The recovery disk from Dell does not install Windows. Let me explain. The recovery disk merely copies files to the hard drive. The Registry is already created and is merely copied. It does not install drivers based on what hardware you have but rather what hardware came with the Dell. Hence if the Dell had a ViaTech S3G Unichrome IGP card and the HP has a Nvidia GForce 8600 GT card, the recovery disk will only place the files on the hard drive for the ViaTech card. The same goes for all the other hardware.

So after installing Windows from the recovery disk Windows will not boot. You would most likely get a stop error as Windows tries to load the wrong driver for the motherboard.

Your best bet is to see if you have an I386 folder on the XP machine with the file Winnt.exe in it. It will contain 1000 plus files. It should also contain Winnt32.exe.

If you have this I386 folder, I can tell you how to do this. There are several way to go about it. The one thing that will remain the same is that the I386 folder must be a top level folder (E:\I386) and you must have the CD Key. There should be a label on the machine with the CD Key. If not, and you have used the recovery disk at least once; you can get it by using our free CD Key Reader. You will also need to activate XP.

And I must tell you that having the same CD Key (license number) on more than one machine is a violation of Microsoft's License. However, if you have not reinstalled Window XP to the Dell machine since it was new that license number has never been activate. So, I would guess this is legal. I have also seen people install the same CD to a different computer many months apart and MS has activated both machines without a hitch.

You cannot install XP while Vista or any newer versions of Windows than XP are running. So you need to follow one of the 6 methods below.

There is one thing you need to know before you replace Vista, Windows 2008, or Windows 7 with XP is that these newer operating systems create files and folders that cannot be see in the Windows Explorer. These folders are created like a rootkit. So if at all possible you should format.

The first method and best way to go about this is to make a bootable CD and copy the I386 folder to it; if you know how to make a bootable CD. Then simply insert the CD into the HP machine and boot to the CD and install Windows.

The second method is to make a CD without making it bootable and have a Floppy drive.

1.   Copy the I386 folder to the CD.

2.   Make a MS-DOS Startup disk in XP. Insert a Floppy diskette > Open My Computer > right click the Floppy disk drive > select Format. Under Format options , click Create an MS - DOS startup disk.

3.   Download a copy of the Windows ME startup files - these files will load the CD-ROM. Copy them to the Floppy, overwriting the existing files.

4.   Then simply insert the Floppy into the HP machine and boot to the the Floppy drive.

5.   Select boot with CD-Rom support

6.   Once booted and at the a prompt type:SmartDrv and press the enter button

7.   Format the Vista drive to FAT32, type Format C: press enter

8.   Once booted and then type: E:\I386\Winnt.exe (replacing the E with your CD-ROM drive letter) and press the Enter button. You are now installing Windows

The 3rd method can be used if you do not have a CD writer but you have a Floppy drive.

1.   Take the hard drive out of the HP machine.

2.   Install it to the Dell as a slave hard drive or in place of your CD. This will depend on where the drive is a SATA or IDE.

3.   Boot up your Dell

4.   Format the Vista drive to FAT32, type Format C: press enter

5.   Copy the I386 folder to the Vista drive

6.   Follow steps 2 - 6 in 2nd method replacing the E drive with you C drive

7.   Once booted and then type: E:\I386\Winnt.exe (replacing the E with your CD-ROM drive letter) and press the Enter button. You are now installing Windows

The 4th method, can be used if you do have Floppy drive, but you have a CD writer and do not known or cannot make bootable CD

1.   Download PE Bart (it's freeware) or equivalent type of software. I use NTFSPRO not freeware) which is all command line.

2.   Let PE Bart make a bootable CD of PE Bart on the XP machine.

3.   Copy the I386 folder to the same CD.

4.   Insert the CD into the Vista machine and boot to it.

5.   Once into the Bart environment, rename the Windows folder to something like WindowsOld do the same for all the other folders, on the drive. You can delete then later. Do not attempt to format the drive or delete folders with PE Bart. Bart is not stable enough to do the job.

6.   Locate the Winnt32.exe file, run it and install Windows. If you used NTFSPRO use the file Winnt.exe 
*As a side note, the subfolders in the I386 folder are not required to install Windows. Only the files directly in the I386 folder are. But copy them all if possible, you never known what you'll need.

The 5th method is if you have any Windows CD that can install a version of Windows, 98, ME or 2000, and No CD writer or Floppy.

1.   Follow the steps 2 - 5 in method 3, except to be sure to format the drive in FAT32

2.   insert your Windows CD or 98, ME or 2000 and boot to it

3.   Install Windows 98, ME or 2000.

4.   After you have finished, boot into Windows and run the file Winnt32.exe.

The 6th method is if you have a USB memory stick that is larger then 512 Megs any your BIOS supports loading it on bootup.

1.   Make sure the Vista machine supports boot to USB drive. And The USB flash drive must support booting from it (most will). If not you make sure the USB can be made bootable.

2.   From the XP machine; make the USB memory stick Bootable. You can use Bart's mkbt util or a zip version or Bart's. You can also try these 2 HP/Compaq USB Flash Drive Utilities. They work with many other brands of flash drives as well. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool or HP Drive Key Boot Utility. Or you can get on a 98 or ME machine and format the drive to FAT with the /S switch (Format E:/ /u /s)

3.   Download a copy of the Windows ME startup files - these files will load the CD-ROM. Copy the files to the USB.

4.   If you BIOS supports boot to USB then go to step 11. If not you will need to do steps 5 to 10.

5.   Copy the files from the root drive C:\ - Boot.ini, CMLDR, NtLdr, and NTdect.com to the USB Drive. Removing the Hidden and Read Only attributes.

6.   Copy the XP's I386 folder to the USB drive

7.   Insert the USB Drive into the Vista machine and boot up

8.   Locate the USB drive and notes it's drive letter.

9.   Open the Boot.ini on the USB and change Default=Multi(0)?????, to Default = E:\ (the USB Drive letter) add a line E:\="USB Drive"

10.                Now you need to tell Vista that you are now dual booting. In the Control Panel open the System Applet. Click on Advanced System Settings, In System Properties, select the Advanced tab and the Startup and Recovery, Select Earlier Version of Windows as the default. Make sure you have at least 5 seconds to display the list. If this option is not available you will need to use bcdedit to set it. To do this:

§  In the search window at the start button type CMD

§  In the command window that will appear type bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d “Windows XP” 
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device boot 
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr 
bcdedit /display order {ntldr} /addlast

§  If you did everything correct you can go back to step 7.

11.                Reboot and you should be booting to the "Earlier version of Windows" and then to the "USB drive". Now select Minimal boot.

12.                Format the Vista drive(C:\) to FAT32, type Format C: press enter

13.                Copy the folder I386 to the hard drive, and then type C: and press enter. (you do not want to use the USB to install from, too slow) . I have included the File Xcopy in the Windows ME startup files. Type Xcopy /? for help.

14.                Then type: I386\Winnt.exe and press the Enter button. You are now installing Windows