i suppose thats true

hey what happened? Did it worked ?

http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm

tho it prolly won't help much since its demo..

well i dont know if it worked yet or not because the computer is at my dads house and unfornutly havnt been able to go over there for awhile.

that passware kit and many others i have seen on the internet are ALL outrageously priced for no damn reason.

i think re-installation is the only option and anyway, the QR CD from Compaq will also wipe out your HD, it is a fresh installation.

get this demo, it'll crack your password http://www.atstake.com/research/lc3/index.html
check out https://sourceforge.net/projects/bo2k (this is a popular Black Oriffice extended for use in NT/Win2000, you were warned) , just turn off your anti-virus.

well... although i am totally against Microsoft products aand Microsofts evil marketing tactics, i feel i am still obligated to heelp show some more exploits in Windows.

This exploit deals with the password...
There is a special boot disk which you can boot off of to change the admin password in winNT, win2k and WinXP. The boot disk is actually Linux based.
here is the forum from which i found the disk:
http://forum.fsckmicro$oft.com/cgi-b...c&f=2&t=000050
change the above to actually say f-u-c-k and m-i-c-r-o-s-o-f-t as this forum blocks out swears and the microsoft name.

and here is the actual link to the disk:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

All you need to to is remove the sam file where the password is located. A floppy with ntfs-dos should be sufficient. At least this works for NT4/2K

where can i get 1 of those disks?

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

whoa......those how to directions are confusing

where is this sam file located?

%systemroot%\system32\config\sam.
If you try to access the file while running the OS you won't be able to, you should do it from DOS or another operating system, I'd suggest boot into linux if you have a dual boot system of course, copy the file and run Crack or John The Ripper against it, you can find some brute force cracking soft on the net, try search sourceforge.net for brute force password guessing tools.

will I be able to do it in the dos when boot from the floppy drive?