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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Reset Windows 7 Administrator Password

There are many ways on how to reset windows 7. Assuming you have administrative rights to the windows pc in the control panel. But, what if you don't  have administrative rights? In this section we will discuss on how to reset windows seven administrator password using the open source utility called chntpw. This tutorial is purely of academic purpose only.
Here are the steps.

  1. Linux desktop in USB drive or you can use backtrack 
  2. After creating the bootable linux of debian flavor we need to install chntpw sudo apt-get install chntpw. 
  3. Open terminal 
  4.  Navigate to Windows/System32/config
  5. type chntpw -u "Administrator" SAM
  6.  At the next screen choose 1. 

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