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Forgot the admin password of your Windows XP computer? How to hack Windows XP password without losing your files? There are plenty of password hacking tools available on the net - commercial as well as free. Here is another way to hack or break the lost administrator password in your Windows XP installation.

ERD Commander is part of the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), which can help you quickly troubleshoot and repair computer that will not boot. Locksmith is one of the useful utilities inside ERD Commander bootable CD, which allows you to hack Windows XP login password easily.

How to Hack Windows XP Password with ERD Commander

To begin to hack Windows XP password, you need to get a registered copy of the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). Install DaRT on an alternative computer, and then launch the ERD Commander Boot Media Wizard from your Start menu to create a ERD Commander boot CD.

1. Insert the ERD Commander boot CD into the drive of your Windows XP computer which you want to hack into.
2. Boot the computer using ERD Commander boot CD. You may have to set the boot order in the BIOS first.
3. Select your Windows XP installation from the list, and click OK.
4. After logging into the system inside the boot CD, click on Start menu, then select System Tools and click Locksmith.
5. It will bring up the Locksmith Wizard. Click on Next.
6. Select the user account from the drop-down list, type your new password and confirm it. Click on Next.
7. Locksmith will hack your Windows XP password and replace the current password with your new one.
8. Click on Finish.

Reboot the computer and you can then log on Windows XP using your new password. Unfortunately, DaRT is not free. What’s even worse is that not everyone can buy it. It is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which is only available for volume-licensed customers (and for Technet/MSDN subscribers).

Locksmith also doesn't work on domain controllers. If you forgot the password of local admin or domain user account, I recommend you to get the PCUnlocker utility for only $24.95!

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A bonus for having Software Assurance on all of our Windows Vista installations is the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP).
One of the kewlest tools in the MDOP pack is ERD Commander. It is a product that gives us low level access to the OS to bring about repairs or changes to get things working when things break.
It was also quite expensive prior to Microsoft's acquiring of Winternals.

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There is a small caveat when working with the new version of the product: The OS architecture installed on the machine we are using to create the ERD utilities disk is the architecture that goes onto the disk.
That is, when creating the rescue tools disk from a Windows Vista x86 based machine, the rescue disk created will be x86 based and only work on x86 OS based machines.
If the rescue tools disk is created on a Windows Vista x64 based machine, then the rescue disk will also carry the x64 architecture and only work on x64 OS based machines.
Check out ERD Commander ... it is an absolutely amazing product with some awesome tools. It has saved our client's bacon many a time!
Many of those tools are not known very well either ... since most people are looking for BartPE disks for certain tasks when the tools for those tasks are actually available right here on the ERD Rescue Disk and not requiring any build finagling to get working ... if they have SA on Vista that is! ;)
Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
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