How to Crack Windows Administrator Passwords

Some times it necessary to know admin passwords in schools ,collages to log in with admin privileges to do various things

There are many way to crack passwords. But in this tutorial I will explain a very basic method using a single tool to crack windows password . This might come handy in places like schools ,collages where you cant use your live Linux cds , usb ..etc because your being watched

Things we need :

1. Pwdump or Fgdump to extract password hashes In this tutorial I will be using Pwdump

Extracting Password hashes :

1. Open My computer and go to

C:\Windows\system32 .

now place the Pwdump file which we download earlier

 

2. Now open command prompt and navigate to

C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump

Using cd command and click enter

Example :

Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump

 

3. Now you can see a list of Pwdump commands as shown

4. Now enter pwdump – localhost >>“ destination of output file “ (for 32 computers) and pwdump -x localhost >> “destination out put file “(for 64 bit computers )

Example :

Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump localhost >> C:\hashes.txt

Cd C:\Windows\system32 \Pwdump -x localhost >> C:\hashes.txt

5. Now open the Out put file you can see the names of the different users with password hashes Now copy the hashes corresponding to the admin account

Cracking The Hashes

Considering that we are in school/collage were we cant use tools to crack passwords so as an alternative we are using online password cracking sites

1. Go to online password cracking sites like www.cracker.offensive-security.com , www.onlinehashcrack.com and paste the hash select hash type as LM and click decode

2.By this way we are able to crack windows password using a single tool

Note:-

If your not able to crack password hashes online use tools like john the ripper to crack password hashes . You can even copy the hashes and decoded it in your house

About The Author

This article is writen by John Jeffery, He is the owner of Hackholic where he writes security related stuffs, If you are interested in writting a guest post on RHA, Kindly read the guidelines here

 

How to Enable or Disable Hibernation in Windows 7

Enabling or Disabling the “Hibernate” option in Windows 7 or Vista is not as simple as it used to be in Windows XP. For Windows 7 a different approach has to be followed to accomplish the same job. In this post you will find how to enable or disable the Hibernate option in Windows 7.

Hibernation is a power saving option which was designed primarily for laptops. Unlike “sleep mode” which puts the open documents and files into the memory, hibernation puts all the open files and documents on to the hard disk and shuts down the computer without drawing even a small amount of power. Thus hibernation becomes an excellent way to save power and resume Windows back to the state where it was left off. If you really want to use this feature on Windows 7 then you need to enable this option. This can be done as follows.

1. Open the Command Prompt with “Administrator rights”. To do so, type cmd in Start menu and then hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

2. Now type the following command in the command prompt and hit Enter.

powercfg /hibernate on

3. Type exit and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Now you should see the “Hibernate” option in the Start menu. If not then perform the following steps.

A. Type Power Options in the Start menu and hit Enter.

B. In the left pane, open the link labeled “Change when the computer sleeps” and then open the link “Change advanced power settings”.

Now a small window will pop-up as shown below:

C. Now expand the Sleep tree and turn off Allow Hybrid Sleep as shown in the above screenshot.

D. Now you should see the Hibernate option in the Start menu.

 

Hack administrator password through guest login

Learn to hack administrators password through guest login
Ever wanted to hack your college pc with guest account/student account so that you can download with full speed Hack Administrator !!!!there ? or just wanted to hack your friend’s PC to make him gawk when you tell your success story of hacking ? well,there is a great way of hacking an administrator account from a guest account by which you can reset the administrator password and getting all the privilages an administrator enjoys on windows..Interested ? read on…

Concept:

Press shift key 5 times and the sticky key dialog shows up.This works even at the logon screen. But If we replace the sethc.exe which is responsible for the sticky key dialog,with cmd.exe, and then call sethc.exe by pressing shift key 5 times at logon screen,we will get a command prompt with administrator privilages because no user has logged on. From there we can hack the administrator password,even from a guest account.

Prerequisites
Guest account with write access to system 32.

Method 1 (Change Admin Password)

Here is how to do that –

1.Go to C:/windows/system32

2.Copy cmd.exe and paste it on desktop

3.Rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe

4.Copy the new sethc.exe to system 32,when windows asks for overwriting the file,then click yes.

5.Now Log out from your guest account and at the user select window,press shift key 5 times.

6.nstead of Sticky Key confirmation dialog,command prompt with full administrator privileges will open.

7.Now type “ NET USER ADMINISTRATOR aaa” where “aaa” can be any password you like and press enter.

8.You will see “ The Command completed successfully” and then exit the command prompt and login into
administrator with your new password.

9.Congrats You have hacked admin through guest account.
Method 2 (Access admin without changing password)

Also, you can further create a new user at the command prompt by typing “NET USER How to hack /ADD” where “How to hack” is the username you would like to add with administrator privileges. Then hide your newly created admin account by –

Go to registry editor and navigate to this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Here create a new “DWORD value”, write its name as the “How to hack” (the username that you entered in the previous step),now you can live with your admin account forever 🙂

Note:For the ones that are having problems with step one: What I would do because you do not have write access to the directory you can use a live version of Linux. Copy the cmd.exe to a flash drive. Boot into Linux and copy the cmd.exe to the file that needs to be replaced. In Linux you can bypass those read/write permissions.

 

How To Hack Windows Administrator Password

This hack will show you how to reset Windows administrator password (for Win 2000, XP, Vista and Win 7) at times when you forget it or when you want to gain access to a computer for which you do not know the password.

Most of us have experienced a situation where in we need to gain access to a computer which is password protected or at times we may forget the administrator password without which it becomes impossible to login to the computer. So here is an excellent hack using which you can reset the password or make the password empty (remove the password) so that you can gain administrator access to the computer. You can do this with a small tool called  Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. This utility works offline, that means you need to shut down your computer and boot off your using a floppy disk, CD or USB device (such as pen drive). The tool has the following features.

• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.

 

How it works?

Most Windows operating systems stores the login passwords and other encrypted passwords in a file called sam (Security Accounts Manager). This file can be usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of Windows registry and remains inaccessible as long as the OS is active. Hence it is necessary that you need to boot off your computer and access this sam file via boot. This tool intelligently gains access to this file and will reset/remove the password associated with administrator or any other account.

The download link for both CD and floppy drives along with the complete instructions is given below

Offline NT Password & Reg Editor Download

It is recommended that you download the CD version of the tool since floppy drive is outdated and doesn’t exist in today’s computer. Once you download you’ll get a bootable image which you need to burn it onto your CD. Now boot your computer from this CD and follow the screen instructions to reset the password.

Another simple way to reset non-administrator account passwords

Here is another simple way through which you can reset the password of any non-administrator accounts. The only requirement for this is that you need to have administrator privileges. Here is a step-by-step instruction to accomplish this task.

1. Open the command prompt (Start->Run->type cmd->Enter)

2. Now type net user and hit Enter

3. Now the system will show you a list of user accounts on the computer. Say for example you need to reset the password of the account by name John, then do as follows

4. Type net user John * and hit Enter. Now the system will ask you to enter the new password for the account. That’s it. Now you’ve successfully reset the password for John without knowing his old password.

So in this way you can reset the password of any Windows account at times when you forget it so that you need not re-install your OS for any reason. I hope this helps.

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