Getting Administrator Access To Any Windows Above 98 With Physical Access

Getting Administrator Access To Any Windows Above 98 With Physical Access Introduction: This is my first guide I’ve done and hope that I can do more if I get around to it. This document can be printed, sent, copied, etc… as long as it remains complete and unaltered. Now on to the fun… Windows 98 This one is pretty easy, go to your start menu, search, and then files and folders. Search for “*.pwl” Without the “s of course. And delete all the files that come up after the search has completed. Restart and login under Administrator with no password. You’re in… Windows NT, 2000, XP I don’t know whether this works under NT or not, haven’t tried it but I figure it will work due to it being so close to Windows 2000. Anyways, start by creating a boot disk. Preferably a Windows 98 boot disk. You can get your hands on this from www.bootdisk.com. Pop that in and restart the computer off of the boot disk you have just created. Once your loaded into DOS you will have to issue “Del X:\winnt\system32\config\SAM” command. The ‘X’ in the command has to be replaced by the drive letter that the OS you‘re trying to get access to resides on. This command will delete the SAM file. This file contains all account information for the Operating System. Now restart and login under Administrator with no password. You’re in… This step right here is for anyone using the NTFS file system. You will have to do the above steps also. But before you can you will have to get a program that lets you read your file partition in DOS. My favorite program to use is NTFSpro. You can download this program from http://ramattack.mailru.com/files/NTFSPRO.ZIP. Follow the directions that come with it to figure out how to create the boot disk correctly. After creating a boot disk with NTFSpro, pop that in if it isn’t already and restart the computer into DOS. Once in DOS, run the NTFSpro program to be able to read your file partition. After this complete the steps listed in the section above. And if all works right, login as Administrator. You’re in… Well, that concludes my tutorial on how to get Administrator access in windows. I will be coming out with a tutorial on some more interesting things later this month. Keep a look out for anything written from me, Sadistic_Psycho… Any comments or questions, feel free to email me at Sadistic_Psycho@phreaker.net.