Hacking Windows Administrator Password

This article introduce very simple way to hack Administrator Password on Win XP System.This tutorial tells you how to break administrator password and gain access to admin account.Also if you need to crack/reveal the password you find the steps here to accomplish that also.

First of all let us have a close look at the Security flaws/Loopholes in Win XP

Microsoft stores all Security Information in many files but the main file is the SAM file (Security Accounts Manager)! this file contain security information about users(mainly Password).You can explore the SAM file here in this folder

$windows\system32\config

SAM is the file which contains the passwords in the form of a HASH.A HASH is a mathematically irreversible form of encryption,so that theres no way of decrypting the password back .Also there’s a file called SECURITY that contains a list of all users in the system & their related information



We will Not be able To copy them Under XP since it doesn’t support any attempt to copy this file.

The Idea Behind Cracking the password

The Idea is simple I will explain it manually and it can also be programmed.Here’s the idea..

The SAM contain’s a Security Information(password/s), so I have created a Free Windows XP SP2 Logon account (Administrator Account without password) that means when windows Launch it Will enter directly to the system without asking about any password.So, this SAM file contain’s an open password(no password).This SAM file is available for download for your further use in breaking the password of the system.

So, the idea here is to replace the SAM file of victim’s computer(which contain’s password) with the SAM file which contains no password.When this is done the password of the victim’s account is erased and it let’s anyone to login to the computer as if there is no password set by admin.

But this SAM file cannot be manipulated(copy/rename/replace/delete) when the operating system is running.So here are some of the ideas to replace this SAM file.

1.If there are two OS installed on the computer we can boot from other OS and replace the SAM file located at

$:\windows\system32\config

2.If there is only a single OS then use the tool NTFS4DOS to access the location of the SAM and SECURITY files from the boot command prompt.

NTFS4DOS creates a bootable floppy disk.You can use this floppy to access the NTFS drives by booting the system and mounting it to DOS.

Here are the steps to be followed to break the password.

1- Download My SAM file which I have Included in Downloads

2- Go to the target Machine , and try to Access it by Booting from the floppy created by NTFS4DOS or by other OS(incase you have two OS installed)

3- After Getting Access to the Boot Command prompt c:> Go to the config folder

$windir$\system32\config

And Copy the SAM File and SYSTEM File(we will need it later) To other any folder, Then replace the original SAM file(In $windows$\system32\config) with the SAM file i have provided

5- Reboot and Make windows enter Normally

6- Yeah, Now you can directly enter the system without any password. ie:The PW is broken!.



Now you have broken the system administrator password and you can directly enter system.Now one phase of the password hack is over.If you need to know/crack the admin password then you can use the two files SAM & SECURITY that you have copied in the above STEP-3(This step is optional).It is done as follows.

Download any of the following Password crackers



1.LC4 (Lophtcrack).New version is LC5

OR

2.SAMINSIDE

LC5 is better according to me

You can also contact me using the Contact Form for those two tools if you don’t find it.

Once you have either of the two password cracking tools,you can load the SAM & SECURITY files and start the cracking process.This process may take a long time since it is Bruteforce method depending on the size of the password.



NOTE: THE ABOVE METHOD IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR WINDOWS VISTA

IF THE ABOVE TRICK FAILS AND IF YOU GET AN ERROR-REFER THIS POST FOR A SOLUTION

“Security Accounts Manager Initialization Failed” How To Recover?

WARNING: THE ABOVE INFORMATION IF FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

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Blu-ray Takes Lead in Hardware Sales of January

According to data from NPD, Warner Brothers’ pre-CES announcement that it would back Blu-ray exclusively seems to have bolstered Blu-ray Disc player sales, and dramatically lowered HD DVD player sales. The data (disclosed by The Digital Bits), notes that in the week ending 1/5/08, Blu-ray Disc player sales were at 15,257 units, and HD DVD player sales were at 14,558 units.

Fast forward to after the Warner announcement. The week ending January 12 showed Blu-ray Disc had increased its lead by 42 percent, to 21,770 units sold. HD DVD sales plummeted by 88 percent, to just 1,758 units. This data would seem to support the fact that Warner’s announcement was indeed the tipping point that would ultimately determine the winner of the format war.

And no wonder. With Warner’s support, Blu-ray is now the format-of-choice of more than 70 percent of Hollywood’s content producers.

Of course, in looking at those numbers, Blu-ray’s commanding lead wasn’t the only thing that sprang to mind. I couldn’t help but notice that overall unit sales were actually down between those two weeks: 29,815 vs 23,528. Assuming, for a moment, that the first week sales weren’t just spiked by people using up holiday gift cards, that 21 percent drop in sales makes me think one of two things: Either a significant number of HD DVD buyers were so sensitive to the price of a player that they just won’t up the ante for the extra bucks that a Blu-ray player might require over HD DVD; or–the more likely scenario–a significant number of HD DVD buyers were purchasing the player primarily because it was an upconverting DVD player.

I’ll be interested to see what the January disc (software) sales data ends up showing once the month is out. My suspicion: We’ll see the Warner announcement had some impact there, as well (already, early 2008 Nielsen VideoScan sales, as reported by Home Media Magazine, show HD DVD represented just 15 percent of the high-def discs sold through January 13). I’ll also be interested in seeing whether the sales ratio for players maintains in the ensuing weeks, or if that 88 percent dropoff was an anomaly. The player sales numbers will be all the more interesting since Toshiba instituted aggressive price cuts on all three of its players as of January 13.

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A Closer Look at Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta

The Microsoft operating system is improved by the soon-to-arrive service pack, but Windows Vista still is missing some features we’d like to see.

With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can Microsoft right the OS’s wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack?

Microsoft made the latest beta of Vista SP1 available to the public earlier this month, and after informally testing it for a couple of days, I find my PC is working more reliably–and some tasks especially file copying, take less time. But I was hoping for more out of SP1, such as bigger system performance gains and fixes for Vista annoyances including the oft-criticized User Account Control feature.

And if you are waiting for major improvements to switch to Vista, you’d better hope that Microsoft’s SP1 development team goes into overdrive before the service pack’s official release and gives you more compelling reasons to make the jump to the OS. Vista undergoes no major overhaul with the SP1 release I looked at.

By the way, Microsoft has said SP1 will ship sometime in the first quarter; sources recently said SP1 would appear in the next few weeks.

Key features in Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh (the downloadable beta’s official name) include improved reliability, security, and performance. In its description of SP1, Microsoft notes many tweaks are buried deep in the shell of the OS and include hard-to-quantify improvements–for example, support for a couple of emerging standards–Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT)–and better compatibility with third-party software and PC peripherals.

 

SP1 Boosts Reliability, Security, and Performance

On the reliability front, Microsoft says SP1 reduces the time it takes to boot and power down a Vista PC as well as the time it takes a PC to wake from hibernation mode, or to snap back after a photo screen saver has been running. Also fixed is the occasional 10-second delay between pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL at boot up and the appearance of the password prompt.

Other fixes address the mysterious problem of how browsing network files eats up more network bandwidth than expected, compared to earlier version of Windows.

And lastly, Microsoft says it has devoted considerable effort to improving file and folder management. SP1 claims to cut the time it takes to extract files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder - but won’t say by how much.

However Microsoft does make some specific claims about performance gains. It says the service pack reduces by 45 percent the time it takes to copy files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system. A 50 percent gain is seen, Microsoft says, when copying files from a remote SP1 system over a LAN to a local SP1 system.

Microsoft’s TechNet has a full list of notable changes in Windows Vista SP1.

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Security Accounts Manager Initialization Failed" How to recover?

SYMPTOMS

When you start your Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional-based computer, you may receive the following error message:

Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. Error Status: 0xc0000001.

Please click OK to shut down this system and reboot into Safe Mode, check event log for more detailed information.

When you start the computer in Safe mode, you receive the same error message.

CAUSE

This issue may occur if the Security Accounts Manager file (SAM) is corrupted or missing.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, either restore or replace the SAM file.

Note: You cannot use the repair process or the recovery console to resolve this issue. These methods require authentication, which cannot occur if the SAM file is corrupted or missing.

To resolve this issue, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Restore the SAM File from Backup

If you used the Backup utility in Windows XP to back up the system state, you can restore the SAM (and all other registry settings) from the disk or archived copy by using the Restore Wizard or the Automated System Recovery Wizard.

Note: ASR is not supported on Windows XP Home Edition.

Method 2: Copy the SAM File from the Repair Folder

If you cannot restore the SAM file by using the Windows Backup utility, copy the SAM file from the following location

C:\WINDOWS\repairand paste it to this location:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config

Note: When you do this, you will lose all accounts or groups that had been created. You will also need credentials that were valid at the time that the ASR was run. This will restore the SAM back to the last instance that Automated System Recovery (ASR) was run, or to when the system was first installed. To do this, follow these steps:

1.Do either of the following:

• Start the computer from another operating system (if you have a multiple-boot system). Note If Windows XP is installed on an NTFS file system drive, you must start the computer from an operating system that can access the NTFS drive (for example, Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows NT). If Windows is installed on a FAT32 drive, you can start the computer by using Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) or Microsoft Windows 98. -or

• Perform a parallel installation of Windows XP, and then start the computer from the parallel installation.

2. Click Start, click Run, type cmd (or command if you are using Windows Me or Windows 98), and then click OK.

3. At the command prompt, type each of the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command:

copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\samcopy c:\windows\repair\sam

copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam

Note: This procedure assumes that you have Windows XP installed in the following default location:

c:\windows

4.Restart the computer by using the original installation of Windows XP.

Method 3: Reinstall Windows XP

If you cannot restore the SAM file by using either Method 1 or Method 2, you must reinstall Windows XP to replace the SAM file.

Note You must use the New Installation option to replace the SAM file. If you perform use the In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) option for Windows XP, the SAM file is not replaced. This method may require that you reformat the partition that Windows XP is installed to. Before you continue with this method, make sure that you have a backup of your My Documents folder, or select an option to install Windows XP to a different partition than where Windows is currently installed.

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Forgot Windows XP Password ?

Yes it is possible to change Adminstrator password both in Win XP and Vista without knowing it.If you somehow manage to login as an Administrator then you can change the password without knowing it.

Heres the Step-By-Step instructions

1. Right-click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop OR in the Start Menu.

2. Select the option “Manage”.

3. On the left pane expand the “Computer Management (Local) tree (if it is not already expanded)

4. Double click “Local Users and Groups” option From “System Tools” tree.

5. Click the “Users” option.

6. Now you will see the list of users on the right side pane,such as Administrator,Guest etc.

7. Right click the “Administrator” and select the option “Set Password” option.

8. Now you will see a warning message,Click on proceed.

9. Now the system asks you for “New Password” and “Confirm Password” .

10. After entering the password click on “OK”.The password is changed.That’s It!

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What’s Next after Windows Vista?

It’s Windows Vienna

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is a future version of Microsoft Windows. It is expected to be the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft has confirmed that the planned development time frame is at least three years, putting the release date around 2010. On July 20, 2007, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 is “the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS”.

Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about Windows 7 publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista,though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged at developer conferences such as Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006.

On February 9, 2007, Microsoft’s Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some possibilities:

“We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it’s hypervisors. I don’t know what it is” [...] “Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers.

”

Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would “be more user-centric.” When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said: “ That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you’ve got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you’re interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else’s PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that’s kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in Vista, things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won’t need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We’ll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we’ve got a pretty good outline. ”

Other features

Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is “a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in.” The implications of this could be as simple as a “complete as you type” function as found in most modern search engines, (e.g. Google Suggest) or as complex as being able to give verbal commands to the PC without any concern for syntax.

Availability

The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.Server versions of Windows 7, however, will be exclusively 64-bit.

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C Program to display the No. of Digits in an Entered Number

This program displayes the number of digits present in the number that is entered through the input.

#include
#include

void main()
{
unsigned long int num;
int i=0;
clrscr();
printf(”Enter the digit\n”);
scanf(”%lu”,&num);
while(num!=0)
{
num=num/10;
++i;
}
printf(”Length=%d”,i);
getch();
}

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