Recover or find lost Window password

Most of us have surely have bad experience when we forgot our precious Microsoft Window password, so here the solution - This tutorial provide for educational or individual purpose only. Use at your own risk

The easiest way is to use Ophcrack live cd. you can get it here : http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

1 - Download Ophcrack LiveCD, depend on the operating system of computer that you want to recover (refer as 'target' after this) . The size of LiveCD image you're downloading is quite large. The Windows XP version is 452MB and the Windows Vista version is 532MB.

2 - Finish download? next step is to burn the download Ophcrack iso file to a cd. (you can use power iso or nero but make sure it is burn as bootable cd or your livecd wont run later.)

3 - Done burn the iso to cd,   put it in target pc cdrom drive then restart the target pc. boot from cdrom or simply set cdrom as primary boot device

4 - After liveCD done loading, you will see 3 Ophcrack menu - graphic mode, graphic VESA mode, and text mode, select 1st option that is graphic mode or simply do nothing.just wait for a few second then ophcrack will continue to load

5 - Wait till screen like this load -

6 - The ophcrack software will automatically try to find any password available on the target system.its done fully automatically, wait for a few minutes and voila! you got the password.

under user column you can see available user or 'window user account name'. Under NT pwd column are recovered password for the specified user. empty NT pwd column mean no password available.

Thats all. Credit to http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ for the  LiveCD and http://pcsupport.about.com for the picture