How do you get logged on to Microsoft Windows if you forgot it?

Its for Microsoft XP to actually log on and be able to go to Word, Internet Explorer, etc.

How do you get logged on to Microsoft Windows if you forgot it?
download ophcrack live cd (just google). . . . burn it as an cd image. after that just turn on your com/laptop %26amp; press whichever button opens your boot menu (something like f2 or f12). then insert your dvd %26amp; select "cd/dvd boot drive" or something along those lines %26amp; press enter . . . . the dvd will do all of the work %26amp; presto. you have the name %26amp; password.





gl %26amp; peace!
Reply:Try this:





1. Log out and reboot your machine.


2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.


3. Select Safe Mode from the resulting menu.


4. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different. You won't be able to see the Internet, for instance. Log in as Administrator. Administrator often has no password.


5. Click on the Start-%26gt;Control Panel menu item.


6. Click on User Accounts.


7. Click on your regular account.


8. Click on Remove the Password.


9. Finish up and reboot normally.





Good luck.
Reply:boot in safe mode and reset your password.
Reply:reset your computer then turn it off while its starting up. turn it on again and it will give you the option of going into safe mode. from there you can change or remove the password as well as change or remove accounts.
Reply:Did you want to wipe out the password file and start fresh?


Usually using notepad or wordpad you can open the file, edit it something like --





administrator=the name you want





Or you can just delete it. Often when you reboot, after deleting the password file, it comes up clean and asks whether you want to set a password.





Depending on your OS you can do different things.


This is a really good helpful page:





By: Daniel Petri


How can I gain access to a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computer if I forgot the administrator's password? How can I reset the administrator's password if I forgot it?





Ok, so you say you forgot your Windows administrator's password, huh? Oh well, it doesn't really matter if you did or you just say you did. The fact is that you need to gain access to a computer and you cannot "remember" the administrator's password.





How can you get out of this situation without formatting and re-installing the operating system?





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One method of gaining access to the system is by trying hard to remember the forgotten password, or a password of another user which has the same level of administrative rights. However I don't think this approach will help you, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here reading article, would you?)





Another method is by trying to restore a backed up System State (in Windows 2000/XP/2003) or a ERD (in NT 4.0) in which you do remember the password. The problem with doing so is that you'll probably lose all of the recently add users and groups, and all the changed passwords for all of your users since the last backup was made.





A third method might be to install a parallel operating system on a different partition on the same computer, then use a simple trick to gain access to the old system. Read more about it on my Forgot the Administrator's Password? - Alternate Logon Trick article.





Note: If you are looking for password cracking tools that can be used for miscellaneous objectives such as password-protected PDF documents, zipped archives, Office documents, BIOS protection and so on then this pages is NOT for you. See some links at the bottom of this page for hints on where to find such tools, but I can tell you right away that Google might be a better choice for you.





The fourth option is by using 3rd party tools that will enable you to reset the lost password and logon with a blank password.





Update: You can also discuss these topics on the dedicated Petri.co.il Forgot Admin Password Forum.


Translations of this article





There are some translations made of this article. Here are the ones I am aware of (do tell me if you know of another, or if you want to create one in your language):





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Portuguese - HERE is an excellent translation of this article into Portuguese (by Bruno Koga - Thanks!)


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Serbian - HERE (by Aleksandar Stojilkovic - thanks!)


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Spanish - HERE (by Victor Pereyra - thanks!)





Freeware Password Recovery Tools





Here are some of these tools:





Free Windows password-cracking tools are usually Linux boot disks that have NT file system (NTFS) drivers and software that will read the registry and rewrite the password hashes for any account including the Administrators. This process requires physical access to the console and an available floppy drive but it works like a charm! I've done it myself several times with no glitch or problem whatsoever.





Beware!!! Resetting a user's or administrator's password on some systems (like Windows XP) might cause data loss, especially EFS-encrypted files and saved passwords from within Internet Explorer. To protect yourself against EFS-encrypted files loss you should always export your Private and Public key, along with the keys for the Recovery Agent user. Please read more about EFS on my What's EFS? page. Out of the following list, the only tool that will no cause any harm to EFS-encrypted files on your hard disk is the Windows Password recovery system.





Here are 5 of these free tools:





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Windows Password recovery - Can retrieve forgotten admin and users' passwords in minutes. Safest possible option, does not write anything to hard drive.


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Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password %26amp; Registry Editor - A great boot CD/Floppy that can reset the local administrator's password.


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Openwall's John the Ripper - Good boot floppy with cracking capabilities.


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EBCD – Emergency Boot CD - Bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults.





If you happen to know about other free tools please let me know .





Important note for Windows Vista users: At this time there is only one solution for Window Vista and that is Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password %26amp; Registry Editor





Note: These password resetting tools are usually good for local users on a stand alone computer. For Domain Admin password resetting procedures please see the Related Articles section at the bottom of this page.





Note: I'd like to put together all the info you have about these issues. If you have any tips, recommended links or any ideas about how to figure out a lost password - please e-mail me and I'll get back to you .


Windows Password recovery





http://www.loginrecovery.com





This site provides a tool to recover lost Windows XP passwords. It works for administrator and user accounts, it doesn't change the password just tells you the old one. It works with encrypted files (EFS) and password hashes. It even works if no passwords at all are known for the machine (as long as you have another computer with internet access to view this website with).





Author claims it also works with Windows NT and Windows Server 2003 and Windows Longhorn, but the BEST thing about it is the fact that it won't reset your passwords, but simply reveal them for you to remember and then use.





Give it a try. The author would like to receive feedback. There is a free service as well as a priority service that will retrieve your passwords within minutes. The fee for the priority service is very cheap, and is really just to cover server costs.





Note: You'll need a blank floppy to run the process.





Update: Author now offers the same tool as a CD image for those of you who do not have a floppy in their computer.





Usage, instructions and additional information can be found at





http://www.loginrecovery.com


Offline NT Password %26amp; Registry Editor (v060213 - February 2006)





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





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





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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.


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You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.


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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.


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Works with syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)


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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!





Download links:





* cd070927.zip (~3MB) - Bootable CD image


* bd070927.zip (~1.4M) - Bootdisk image


* drivers1-070927.zip (~310K) - Disk drivers (mostly PATA/SATA)


* drivers2-070927.zip (~1.2M) - Disk drivers (mostly SCSI)





To write these images to a floppy disk you'll need RawWrite2 which is included in the Bootdisk image download. To create the CD you just need to use your favorite CD burning program and burn the .ISO file to CD.





Support and Problems? Don't call me! Talk to the creator of this great tool. He also has a good FAQ set up covering most of the day-to-day questions. Read it right HERE
Reply:I'm not sure what you're trying to log on to. Are you trying to get the Microsoft Office programs?
Reply:If you forgot the logon password to your windows account you need to restart and boot up in safe mode. Normally once you restart and you push f8 it will bring you to a menu, choose boot up in safe mode. Then it should give you a main administrator account that you can get onto. Get on it, go to control panel and accounts and take off the password for your account. then restart.


READ THIS!!!!!


Hey, if it's the boot up password that you forgot, not the windows one um, if it's a desktop best thing to do is shutdown, open it up, (unplug it of course), and inside you will see a small circular battery around 1 inch. Take that out, plug in the computer, turn it on wait 30 seconds, turn it back off and put the battery back in and start up the computer and your set!