Hack Vista Administrator Password

30 08 2007

Hack Vista..
Locked out of Windows Vista? XP? NT? Overwrite the administrator password or any user password with a boot disk called Trinity Rescue Kit. All you gotta do is download this .iso with your computer, and copy it to a cd or dvd with ImgBurn.

Once done put cd back in, and restart the computer or put this disk in any computer and boot up with it, wait for the linux os to finish booting from cd, you will get a prompt, type “winpass” press enter
it is mounting the drives for windows, you can choose which os if you multiboot..
In most cases all you do is press enter if you only have one os.
Enter “*” for blank administrator password or enter whatever you need, confirm with y then enter.
Password changed :)
This shouldnt take anyone more than 5 minutes to do…

You can also change any username with winpass -u “username”
easy as that.

Enjoy :)
Download ISO to reset administrator password Here

Winpass
By default it will reset the builtin administrator account of a locally installed Windows, but you can specify other accounts as well at the commandline. In fact, you can add any parameter from chntpw which will be parsed to the commandline. So winpass –l will list you all usernames found in the SAM. Should you have troubles that metacharacters are present in the username (like the Ø or something), you can still use the HEX reference to the username listed next to it. Be sure to prepend that with a ‘0x’. More info on that can be found in the manual of chntpw. Watch out with disabling syskey! Most of the time you don ‘t need to disable syskey. It removes strong password encryption, so all local passwords become invalid, since the hashes don ‘t correspond to the encryption algorythm anymore.





Fix USB problems..

30 08 2007

Vista Driver problems

 

i just got a 2GB USB hard drive. I plugged it in to Vista and i get a message saying that Windows needs to install a driver to get it to work, i wasn’t expecting this as i thought these drives did not need any drivers.  I let it check Windows Update but it found nothing.  I tried the firewire option but it was no different.  I contacted PNY tech support and got the following reply, which was actually very helpful:

“If a driver is required, then it is required for your USB, or FireWire interface inside your PC. External harddrives didn´t require special drivers, because they are ATAPI compatible.”

I grabbed an old USB card reader which i know does not require any additional drivers, and i plugged it in.  I got 12 prompts to install drivers and each time it searched Windows Update and found nothing.  I took a guess at searching in c:\windows and it found them one by one.  I couldn’t figure out why Windows would not search its own driver store automatically.  Apparently there is some bug with Vista where you can get a corrupt driver cache file and if you delete it then it will solve all these problems.
The culprit file is called INFCACHE.1 and it’s located in c:\windows\inf.  I discovered this on a newsgroup post.  This is the relevant part:

The solution to this annoying problem (I had it on one PC), seems to be to locate and delete the file INFCACHE.1, which may be corrupted and causing the problem. To delete this file, you will first have to modify its permissions so the users group can access it (right-click on the
file->Properties->Security). INFCACHE.1 file.  It’s located at C:\Windows\inf (scroll down to the file). (Note: to see INFCACHE.1, you must set Windows Explorer to display hidden and system files)

When modify these system files, i usually find i have to take ownership first for my own user account, then add myself to the permissions with full control.  then you can delete it, or rename it to X_INFCACHE.1, etc.

I’m glad to say Vista is loading all my USB devices nicely now and the Formac drive works beautifully with USB and Firewire.