Losing your admin password can lead to serious circumstances. But you don't always have to lose data or call a pro to fix it.
Locking yourself out of your own computer is a pretty common occurrence. Many a user has had to endure loss of data and other issues just so that they could get back into their machines. But, that doesn’t always need to happen. On the contrary, you can just hack into your Windows or Mac powered PC. It’s just like locking yourself out of your own house and then climbing through an open window. It’s not the easiest or most reliable of methods, but it is possible. Let’s see how.
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Windows 7, Vista and XP
Find a free utility known as Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK). This is a donation-ware that can recover the administrator password for your computer if you happen to forget it. Further, it can empty a dying disk, recover files, find root kit malware and many other things that can save you from complete ruin.
TRK can be put on an USB drive or CD/DVD and run when a computer is being booted. Basically, you boot from the device before Windows has loaded. For this you have to change the boot device in your BIOS Setup to CD/DVD or USB, depending on what you have installed TRK on.
Windows 8
1. First you have to boot from the Windows 8 boot DVD and open up the command prompt using Shift+F10.
2. Now type, copy d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe d:\ in the command prompt. You may get a ‘The system can not find the specified path’ error message. In that case, your file system is a bit different. You will solve this by replacing ‘d:’ with other drive names like ‘C:’ etc. until the message disappears.
3. Next type copy /y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe. What this does it replaces the sticky keys feature on Windows 8 with the command prompt. Pretty neat isn’t it?
4. Now restart Windows and wait for the Windows 8 lock screen to appear. Here press theShift key five times. It will bring up the command prompt.
5. Then type net user, which will give you a list of users on the PC.
6. Choose the one you want to out of these (say user_name) and write net user user_name new_password.
Here the new_password will be your new password and the user_name is your username. So the command will be: net user “EFY Times” thepassword. If the password and username have spaces in them then the quote marks are needed.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger
Insert your OS X DVD that came with your computer or use the disk you purchased to upgrade your original OS X and restart your Mac. Hold down the "option" key during the restart until you see the Startup Manager. Double-click the "Install Mac OS X" icon. Once the installer has loaded, choose utilities and then click restart.
Once the installer is done, choose ‘Utilities’ and then select Reset Password from there. Follow the instructions.
After the installer loads, choose "Utilities" and select "Reset Password". Follow the instructions provided in the utility to reset the admin password.
Mac OS X Lion
Restart the Mac and press Command+R keys when the restart starts. Hold the keys down till the Apple logo appears. You should find the Recovery HD utility. Now open a terminal windows and the put in resetpassword. Now press Enter.
Locking yourself out of your own computer is a pretty common occurrence. Many a user has had to endure loss of data and other issues just so that they could get back into their machines. But, that doesn’t always need to happen. On the contrary, you can just hack into your Windows or Mac powered PC. It’s just like locking yourself out of your own house and then climbing through an open window. It’s not the easiest or most reliable of methods, but it is possible. Let’s see how.
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Find a free utility known as Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK). This is a donation-ware that can recover the administrator password for your computer if you happen to forget it. Further, it can empty a dying disk, recover files, find root kit malware and many other things that can save you from complete ruin.
TRK can be put on an USB drive or CD/DVD and run when a computer is being booted. Basically, you boot from the device before Windows has loaded. For this you have to change the boot device in your BIOS Setup to CD/DVD or USB, depending on what you have installed TRK on.
Windows 8
1. First you have to boot from the Windows 8 boot DVD and open up the command prompt using Shift+F10.
2. Now type, copy d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe d:\ in the command prompt. You may get a ‘The system can not find the specified path’ error message. In that case, your file system is a bit different. You will solve this by replacing ‘d:’ with other drive names like ‘C:’ etc. until the message disappears.
3. Next type copy /y d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\sethc.exe. What this does it replaces the sticky keys feature on Windows 8 with the command prompt. Pretty neat isn’t it?
4. Now restart Windows and wait for the Windows 8 lock screen to appear. Here press theShift key five times. It will bring up the command prompt.
5. Then type net user, which will give you a list of users on the PC.
6. Choose the one you want to out of these (say user_name) and write net user user_name new_password.
Here the new_password will be your new password and the user_name is your username. So the command will be: net user “EFY Times” thepassword. If the password and username have spaces in them then the quote marks are needed.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger
Insert your OS X DVD that came with your computer or use the disk you purchased to upgrade your original OS X and restart your Mac. Hold down the "option" key during the restart until you see the Startup Manager. Double-click the "Install Mac OS X" icon. Once the installer has loaded, choose utilities and then click restart.
Once the installer is done, choose ‘Utilities’ and then select Reset Password from there. Follow the instructions.
After the installer loads, choose "Utilities" and select "Reset Password". Follow the instructions provided in the utility to reset the admin password.
Mac OS X Lion
Restart the Mac and press Command+R keys when the restart starts. Hold the keys down till the Apple logo appears. You should find the Recovery HD utility. Now open a terminal windows and the put in resetpassword. Now press Enter.
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