Help with bein sneaky.....

Houdini · Post by **Houdini** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:23 am

Any suggestions of how i can get my dad's (administrator) password to log in to xp so that I can load Wow? Thanks a lot

-Houdini

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:50 am

there isnt an easy way.....but you could try guessing his password. most likely its something he likes or something...or maybe its his birthday...who knows. And on MY computer, i'm the admin and he's the typical user that cant install stuff....mwahahahahahahahaha

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:01 am

If it's XP and you get the "Welcome Screen" (the icons with the names you click on), just press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice to get the classic (NT/2000) login box. Type "Administrator" as the username and hit ENTER. This works on roughly 95% of computers out there.

This should work if it's an OEM installation.

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:19 am

Look up "John the Ripper"

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:21 am

yeah theres entire articles written on the poorness of winows security. you can also get in with like the recovery console boot discs or whatever. and i once owned a cd that could boot the computer and erase passwords, but it only seems to work with sp1

Post by **Gamelver** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:35 am

um...well, on my brother's computer, I needed to use it once, but all the user names had passwords. I started the computer in safe mode, logged in as Administrator and was able to delete the password on the Admin account.

whenever it goes into safe mode, a new Administrator account is, er, kind of created, by the way

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Post by **bicostp** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:41 am

That's what I told you how to log into. It's "hidden" from the Welcome screen so repair centers can get into the machines. You'll then have full admin access to the machine, and you can change your account to an admin I guess.

Why not just ask your dad to install it?

Houdini · Post by **Houdini** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:51 am

He is against Video games, the less he know the better. Btw he was doin bills today and I asked him if i could look somethin up and changed it!!

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:55 am

So what your gonna only play WoW when hes not home are alseep?

Just don't get addicted, when I was playing FFXI I would stay up to 5:00 AM on school nights to play. The key thing you have to remember is, for the love of god take it slow

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:15 pm

Maybe i'll try this at school.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:15 pm

Isn't there a Linux boot disk that finds the password?