How to Reset Windows XP Administrator Password

Forgot your NT admin password? Reinstall? Oh no… Not any more…

Overview

• This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system.
• You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
• It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS and FAT/FAT32 partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together.
• Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
• It is also an almost fully functional registry editor!

Why
NT stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called ’sam’, usually found in \winnt\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible. But thanks to a German(?) named B.D, I’ve now made a program that understands the registry. As far as I know, Microsoft provides no way of changing the password if you cannot log in as someone with appropriate privileges, except restoring the registry files from the rescuefloppy.

• You don’t forget passwords?
• You never get boxes to admin when someone quits suddenly?
• Your vendor delivers a preconfigured system to you, but never have “freak” accidents and lose the password they’ve set on it?

If so, what are you doing reading this?? Go read propaganda from your favourite software vendor instead.

Download here: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html