Windows XP access help wanted.

[Goblinz]

This may seem to be a bit of a strange question but I can explain why I need this via PM if anybody can help.

I need to access a windows XP PC that is password protected which I have physical access to. Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this. I seem to remember some sort of bootdisk for windows NT where you could get in to the file system and decrypt the password file.

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[stryd_one]

There are like 50 squillion downloadable ISOs which you can boot to and simply overwrite the administrator password. Very quick and easy, you'll be done within 5 minutes.

The one I use is proprietary so I can't make a recommendation, but one linux based security boot CD is as good as another. ntpasswd / chntpw are a tool that'll do it, and the name has bootdisks at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

If you want to, you can also use the install CD, but it's more messing around than I usually can be bothered with.

[Goblinz]

Thanks mate, appreciated.