How can I log into a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computer without knowing the administrators password?
You can not log into the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computer without knowing the admin password. If you don’t know the password means you have lost it then the best way is to recover your lost windows password with window password recovery tool. It provides very simple interface so you can easily use it.
Windows NT passwords, including the administrator’s password are stored as hash (see q. 2.1)in the special file SAM in %WINDIR%/system32/config directory. It follows that there are to simple cracking methods: firstly, you may try to get this hash-value out of there and recover the administrator’s password using brute-force, secondly, you can just change this value so that it would correspond with some simple password, eg. “aaa”. You cannot read nor change this file directly, as it is protected by Windows. But we can reach it using one of the following methods: • move the HDD to another computer and then get physical access to the file. It’s not so easy. • move the HDD to another computer with the same Windows OS and get access to the file. • load another OS on this computer (eg. Linux) and get access to the file. Attention: if you change the administrator’s password, you will not be able to get access to files encrypted with EFS. If you need them, you can only try to recover the correc
