Forgot Windows password

[Peter Tsang]

Hi

Disaster folks! I've justrecovered my disk from Ghost image. But I apparently forgotten my password. There are no other accounts. It's a standalone PC. There is thesword hint but how to use it?

How do I recoer without reinstall?

Thanks in advance!!
Peter

 

[Mp4]

Whats the current os?

 

[Peter Tsang]

Vista 32

 

[j.col]

use ophcrack http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
download the image and burn it to cd.
change boot order in bios to cd/dvd first.
then boot up.
ophcrack will run.
just select the gui interface and then its automatic.
give it 5-10mins and it reveals all the passwords on the pc

 

[Greenlizard0]

del

 

[Peter Tsang]

use ophcrack http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
download the image and burn it to cd.
change boot order in bios to cd/dvd first.
then boot up.
ophcrack will run.
just select the gui interface and then its automatic.
give it 5-10mins and it reveals all the passwords on the pc

It works admirably! Many thanks!!

Peter

 

[Beans on toast Dave]

whats the point in having passwords with software like that

impressive tho

 

[J.B]

whats the point in having passwords with software like that

impressive tho

There are a lot of these tools about, passwords have never been a great way of protecting anything in Windows, they are move of a visual deterent to stop just anyone jumping on your machine etc.

For true security I would suggest hard disk encryption!

 

[Peter Tsang]

You folks seem to know everything, I feel being lucky to be in this place actually

Would you folks happen to know of a video capture software by any chance? I thought about recording some of my finest moment in the PC video game called Civilization IV.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

 

[Locke]

Fraps.

 

[Peter Tsang]

I know Fraps but it requires me to pay for it. Anything which is free for a trial period of 15 or 30 days will do good for me.

 

[Philtor]

You could try Camstudio? http://camstudio.org/

Here's a tutorial as well... http://www.gameinnovator.com/game_videos_camstudio.php

 

[Peter Tsang]

Just came back from CamStudio 2. Easy to use but all I've got is blank screen once I switched to the game screen. Everything in black. Tried several encoding which come witht he software but no luck. Any clue?

 

[Beenom]

Also give Taksi a go.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/taksi/

 

[Peter Tsang]

I finally managed to record something but that's from Camtasia Studio 7. Still nothing was recorded when in Full Screen mode when I ran Strike Fighter Project 1 a flight simulation. As for Civilization 4, the frame rates were horrible!

Everything went back to normal and good when I ran each one of them in windowed mode?! The only trouble I'm getting is some games don't provide windowed mode...

 

[markweatherill]

As I recall, turning hardware acceleration off may help if the screen capture utility isn't 'seeing' what's on screen.

 

[NickM]

use ophcrack http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

Based on the graph on that site, does it mean that if you have a Vista 10+ character alphanumeric or mixed alphanumeric password then it wont be able to crack it?

 

[tntcoder]

Based on the graph on that site, does it mean that if you have a Vista 10+ character alphanumeric or mixed alphanumeric password then it wont be able to crack it?

Indeed, its highly improbable you will recover such a password, if it's mixed case that is.

It would require epically large rainbow tables, and essentially be infeasible.

This site is a good measurement of password strength against brute force.

http://www.hammerofgod.com/passwordcheck.aspx

But in the case where you have physical box access like this, you can just remove the password.

 

[slipd]

Hi guys,

I was intending to use ophcrack on a (virtual) xp machine, just to have a bit of a play but I left the disc tray during booting my 2003 server. The boot froze and when I restarted I just get a 'LI' displayed and now I can't boot... with or without the CD

Any ideas?