How to Hack Your Way into Your Own Computer. Jupiterimages/Stockbyte/Getty Images. January 2. 4, 2. 01. When I was a kid, I used to always forget my house key and would have to resort to climbing a ladder and crawling through our kitchen window to let myself back into our house after school. I'm sure my mom got very tired of me knocking all her stuff off the window sill and killing the plants in the window box, but it sure beat sitting on the front porch for several hours waiting for them to get home from work. Now that I'm an adult, I rarely forget or lose my keys, but I have managed to lock myself out of a few computers and servers more than a few times.
So the big question is: How do you let yourself back into your computer without breaking something? Well, I can't promise you that you won't break something, but I can give you some tips on how to hack your way back in: Please note that these tips are for good guy purposes only, I make no guarantees that these will or won't work. It's entirely possible that you could lose all your files by trying these techniques, so use at your own risk. I'm going to guess that if you are reading this page that you are at your wits end and this is a last resort. If you can't get into your computer because your PC contracted a computer virus, has become part of a bot net or has been hacked, then you should skip over to my I've Been Hacked! Now What? article before going any further.
The instructions in the article you are reading now are meant for restoring administrator account lockouts only. For Windows 1. 0 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP: One of the best utilities is the Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK).
If you can't get into your computer because your PC contracted a computer virus, has become part of a bot net or has been hacked, then you should skip over. How to Hack. Two Parts: Before You. Remember it's not a game to hack into a network. Be careful what you hack. You never know if it has any thing to do with. We have previously talked about how to Recover the Windows Login password within minutes which allows you to recover your Windows password online.
This free (donation- ware) utility can help you recover the administrator password for your computer, recover files, evacuate a dying disk, scan for nasty root kit malware, and perform many other disaster recovery tasks. The Trinity Rescue Kit can be loaded onto a CD/DVD or USB drive and should run when you boot the computer prior to Windows loading. You must go into your computers setup (bios utility) and choose "Boot from USB/CD/DVD" before you attempt to use this utility.
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If you don't set the Boot from USB/CD/DVD, Windows will launch as normal and TRK will not load. Be sure to check your PC's user manual for details on how to access the BIOS setup / configuration before attempting to use this software.
If this method fails check out this article from 4. SYSOPS for several other methods of admin account recovery. For Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger: Insert your OS X DVD that came with your computer or use the disk you purchased to upgrade your original OS X and restart your Mac. Hold down the "option" key during the restart until you see the Startup Manager. Double- click the "Install Mac OS X" icon.
Once the installer has loaded, choose utilities and then click restart. After the installer loads, choose "Utilities" and select "Reset Password". Follow the instructions provided in the utility to reset the admin password. For Mac OS X Lion: Restart your Mac and hold down the Command- R keys as soon as the restart begins. Keep holding the keys until the Apple Logo appears.
The reset password utility is hidden in OS X Lion but is still accessible. After the startup sequence completed your should see the Recovery HD utility. Once in the utility, open a terminal window and type resetpassword and press the return key. Follow the instructions provided in the reset password utility to reset the administrator password.
How to Hack Into a Windows XP Computer Without Changing the Password. We have previously talked about how to Recover the Windows Login password within minutes which allows you to recover your Windows password online. Another method to login to a password protected Windows even if you do not have the password is by making Windows accept any password, and this is a far better way to get into Windows XP. It is easy and it does not reset the password which will definitely alert the administrator of the computer. Kon- Boot is another fantastic tool for doing this and there are free and paid versions available that will allow access to Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and even Linux without knowing the password. Kon- Boot is also present on the great Hiren’s Boot CD rescue disc. There are also other useful methods getting into a password protected Windows such as cracking the password so you can find out what the real password is.
Hacking into a computer running Windows XP without changing or resetting the password will allow you to find out all and any passwords on the machine (including admin accounts). You do not need access to any accounts to do this, but of course, do not perform this method on anyone else’s computer without proper authorization. The hacking method described below works only on Windows XP. Steps to Hack into a Windows XP Computer without changing password: 1. Get physical access to the machine. Remember that it must have a CD or DVD drive. Download Dream. Pack.
PL. 3. Unzip the downloaded dpl. ISO image. 4. Burn the ISO using a burning program that is capable of burning ISO images. After you have the disc, boot it from the CD or DVD drive. You will see Windows 2. Setup and it will load some files.
Press “R” to install Dream. Pack. PL. If you get a “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer” error, refer to this post on the subject. Press “C” to install Dream. Pack. PL by using the recovery console.
Select the Windows installation that is currently on the computer (Normally is “1” if you only have one Windows installed). Backup your original sfcfiles. C: \Windows\System.
Copy the hacked file from CD to System. Type the following (assuming your CD drive is D: ): copy D: \i. C: \Windows\System. Type “exit“, take out disk and reboot to Windows normally.
In the user password field, type “dreamon” (without quotes) and the Dream. Pack menu will appear. Click the top gray graphic in the Dream.
Pack window and you will get a menu popup. Go to Commands - > Commands Settings. In the Commands Settings window, enable the God- Password by putting a tick in its box. Click OK. 1. 5. Now type “god” into the user password field to get in Windows. You can also go to the Dream. Pack. PL Passwords menu and select “Logon with wrong password and hash”. This option allows you to login with ANY password instead of using god everytime.
Note: We were unable to bring up the Dream. Pack. PL for the first time because Kaspersky Anti- Virus was already running in background. Most antivirus software today has already labeled this tool as a Hack- Tool. A Hack- Tool is NOT a virus.
Dream. Pack. PL merely helps you bypass the Windows Login screen and it is not destructive. For your information, files that are not detected aren’t necessarily 1. Power Tip: If you are on Windows 7, we discovered that there is a working backdoor method where you can run an elevated command prompt with system privileges.
This will allow you to reset any user account password or even creating a new administrator account without even logging in.