My wife has an old laptop that she doesn't remember the password to. What's the best linux distro to use to break that password? Windows 7 OS. I would build my own DaRT boot CD, but I don't have an open license agreement with Microsoft to do that. Suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Darm
You can download and burn an image for Hiren's Boot CD I believe it is. There is a item in the menu it gives you to reset passwords for XP, 7, and few others. That should do the trick just fine.
Any distro of linux will do for this. A work around is to change the Ease of Access to shortcut to cmd on bootup of windows and you can change the password through there with Net user
Have you tried this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzh3BgQPDyU
Takes 7 seconds with any linux distro and "chntpw"
Access the SAM file, and clear the password.
Just use konboot, nulls the password on boot and after login can be changed without the need for the old one.
use koonboot and the netuser commands in cmd to reset the password in less than 3 minutes. you only need to reboot afterwards
Thanks guys
I use Ophcrack XP with some Vista tables.
konboot is the best option
useful info. commenting to find later. didn't know that linux trick
could you send me a link to downloads please, i could do with this
Lol? Just kill the battery on the board.
That would only work for removing a BIOS password.
True.
:P Just boot into safe mode in XP and log into the admin account. Enabled by default.