Thursday 13 March 2014

Hack Windows 7 login

At times, you find yourself locked out of your system or a friend of yours has changed your password and has left you in trouble. No matter what the case may be, you can still get you account back. Pulling this off in Windows XP was simpler but anyway here is the how-to:
  • Fire up your system.
  • When the screen states "Starting Windows", press the power button.
  •  Now restart the system, when it boots, you have a choice whether to start normally or Launch Startup Repair. Choose Launch Startup Repair.

  • Now, a pop may ask you if you want to use System Restore. Press Cancel.
  • After waiting quite some time, you will be told that Startup Repair failed. Click on the down arrow to see the problem details
  • Scroll down to the very bottom of the report and click on the link for the offline Privacy Statement

  • Notepad opens up, go to File and click on Open

  • In the Open Dialog, go to Computer -> Local Disk (This could be C: or D: or the place where you installed Windows)  -> Windows -> System32
  • Change the File Type from Text Documents to All Files
  • Find the application sethc or a file named sethc.exe
  • Right Click and rename it to sethc-bak
  • Find the application cmd  or a file named cmd.exe
  • Right Click and copy it
  • Now Paste it
  • You will get something on the lines of cmd - Copy,  right click and rename it to sethc
  • Close Notepad and Press Finish (Basically System Shutdown)
  • At the login, press Shift Key 5 times
  • Voila! You have DOS

  • Type net user. This gives you a list of all users.
  • Now, type net user username * to reset the password of account username or net user username password to change password of username account.
See this is a bit complex but still you get what you want.

As Always thanks for reading and please comment.

3 comments:

  1. It worked, you have to wait after cancelling system restore. Dont forget to put it back whatever you change. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  2. im tempted to try this trick out..but on my office laptop :P should i? dont want it to get spoilt :s

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  3. Thank you, you probably should not do such kind of things in your office. It does not spoil the system.

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