xp password recovery

[fireman22]

i forgot my login password, downloaded on my other pc a program burned it to a disk popped that into pc turned on and it found password. now my daughter has forgotten her password but cant for the life of me find the cd i burned and cant now find where i downloaded it from. i remember it had a picture in the background of a graveyard or on start up any idea of the name of the program guys? or is there a way of checking my disk burning history to find it, cheers
Paul

 

[Stivino]

http://tinyurl.com/6yzeds

 

[Estrella]

Why not reboot the machine into safe mode (press F8 on start up) . log on as Administrator and remove the password from Control Panel >User Accounts ?

 

[PingCrosby]

Orphcrack as pointed out earlier will most probably do the trick

 

[Agile]

I have never used an Admin function and have never had any Admin password with any new machine or loaded Windows.

Is there a usual default password?

If not then how does anyone manage?

Tony

 

[Mickymoody]

I have never used an Admin function and have never had any Admin password with any new machine or loaded Windows.

Is there a usual default password?

If not then how does anyone manage?

Tony

Get out more.

 

[opps]

Why not reboot the machine into safe mode (press F8 on start up) . log on as Administrator and remove the password from Control Panel >User Accounts ?

It is often the case that the admin acc has no password unless it has been specifically set

 

[Mickymoody]

Why did I get a thumbs down for that?! Simply log in as admin, as you can clearly do, access control panel, as admin, as there is no password set, as I suggested, and you indicated, reset passwords for your kids, as normal. Straightforward. Did I upset you with my description of what to do?

You ask for info, and when given the info, you are upset by it? What do you want? If I came over and typed the keys for you? You would be happy? How hard is it to please anybody nowadays? I gave the correct info, but got a minus rating. Cheers. Can you explain your negative response in the thread?

 

[opps]

hi micky- how do you know that you got a thumbs down??

tnx

 

[Mickymoody]

hi micky- how do you know that you got a thumbs down??

tnx

Because it appears next to your post time. - or +, why are you asking me?

Would you like me to give you a plus or minus, as it seems that there are clusters of people with similar IP addresses on here that seem to reward themselves +'es and thanks, on every post they make.

I give you a plus.

 

[Monkeh]

it seems that there are clusters of people with similar IP addresses on here

And how would you know that, and what significance does similarity have?

 

[opps]

thanks micky- i dont deserve it but I when i look at the thumbs up/down they are the same shade of white (w7 64 bit ie8). can you see something diferent?

I have just seen your post in general regarding multiple accounts. If one were using a proxy how could you tell? I do have a openvpn which i use to access HULU.com but have never used here. that said I have probably used numerous ip addresses, my home ip, t-mobile and which ever pub I am in. I do only have one user account though.

Thanks again

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i see what you mean now- I do run a smf forum but it is quite different

 

[opps]

it seems that there are clusters of people with similar IP addresses on here

And how would you know that, and what significance does similarity have?

I dont know how he knows it but I have first hand experience running a small forum where I see spammers using proxies that share the first couple of octets

 

[Monkeh]

it seems that there are clusters of people with similar IP addresses on here

And how would you know that, and what significance does similarity have?

I dont know how he knows it but I have first hand experience running a small forum where I see spammers using proxies that share the first couple of octets

Wow, so similar. There are only 65,536 addresses in a /16.

 

[opps]

agreed i meant to say the first 3 rather than two.

if i see 20 accounts that opened on the same day sharing the same 3 that all resolve to the same provider in, for eg china then I summarily delete all 20 accounts- they have the option to question it but never do.

Having just spent the last hour or so in the general section i admit that it seems odd that a particular member has been thanking the same posters yet has not made any posts themselves.

I don't have access to the ip addresses here though