What's the process of bypassing Windows XP passwords?

308 Asked by Aalapprabhakaran in Cyber Security , Asked on Mar 28, 2022

I have an old ThinkPad R40 family laptop running Windows XP lying around and there's an account on it that has a password and it gave me a hint and I put everything I could possibly think in there and no luck. Is there any way to bypass the password?

Answered by Amit raj

The answer to bypassing Windows XP passwords is -



You can boot in safe mode and then try to reset the password.

Once you enter in safe mode you can go to Control Panel > User Account > Change Account.

Or in a command line window and type the

net user [account name] [new password]

e.g:

net user administrator password If that's not possible, you can use a Linux live CD and boot with it. Mount the windows drive and use the chntpw to change the password.

  sudo chntpw -u "USER NAME" SAM

What's the process of bypassing Windows XP passwords?

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