Well recently one of my good girl that is a friend got a laptop from her dad. Her dad does websites so the laptop was new and worked fine, but needed to be defraged. The one problem, her nor her dad knew the admin password. I told her to post her question on Trap 17 and it got answered with in minutes. All you have to do is these few steps:

1. Reboot
2. Before the windows logo comes up press F11 (Just start clicking it over and over again until the windows logo comes up.)
3. Just sit and let it do it's thing and when the login screen comes up click on the Admin icon (It was a picture of a pink flower on her account)
4. After it logs in go to control panel
5. Then go to User Accounts
6. either make an old, non, admin account an admin account or create a new one
6a. If you wanna make a new account just click Create a New Account > Pick a username > Set setting as an admin
6b. If you wanna change an account to an admin: Click the account > Change the Account Type > the Select Admin

7. Then thats it reboot and it's all done. Make sure not to reboot in safe mode though!

the point of this post was how easy XP is hacked. Why is it this easy? Is there software to prevent this? I'm not worried about my PC, but what about others?

This post has been edited by BooZker: Aug 7 2006, 02:14 AM

Well I think all F11 does is boot up in safemode right? If not you can always just put a password on the main Administrator account, when you nomraly boot up admin account is hidden if you have created other accounts for windows. Once you put up a password it would be a pain to get in. But if you really want to get into the system you could always just make a floppy disk or cd with the program which resets passwords but then again you need physical access to the computer, so it really isn't THAT easy.

Both of you BoozKer and DemonHawk...all I can tell guys politely is that YOU PEOPLE HAVE GONE MAD! Firstly, to demonhawk...you dont boot into the safe mode by using the [f11] key but it is done by using the [f8] key. So make a note of it. Rest whatever you have written is cetainy true.

As far as BoozKer is concerned...from where did you get that amazing idea that [f11] would do anything at all? I knew it was false...But I though that mikght be some BUG or an easter egg would have been left into windows...I rebooted 4-5 times totaling altogethjer 15 Mins just to cjeck that if what you told was OKAY!?? But sadly, I must tell you...nothing happened...[F11] doesnt work and the windows loads noramally!

Vaibhav,


This is the EXACT tutorial i got and it worked like a charm the first time. It was given to me by Plenoptic from Trap. Here is the link to the topic on Trap also if you do not believe me. http://www.trap17.com/forums/computer-admi...ord-t39850.html




If someone elses computer is different tell me so i can update it, but it worked for my computer and also hers.



What version of windows are you running? And also F8 doesn't put it into Safe Mode. Maybe you have an older version or a different Version of windows... you do have windows right?

This post has been edited by BooZker: Aug 7 2006, 02:18 AM

f11 goes to safe mode unless you have a moded windows.. dont get your windows on crack sites.. some functions are NOPed [no operation]. a moded windows install can also blocked this function..

there are also computer brands that uses f11.. take one is a version of compaq that brings the boot sequence when pressing the f11..

f8 wont bring you to safemode.. it will prompt you to select a boot up sequence or to skip some configurations..

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in win98.. f8 is a step by step confirmation of all sysconfig and autoexec.bat commands..

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and some windows versions.. mostly those that came up from out of the box have this bad habit of turning all new accounts as admin.. so literally.. if you can login with a non existent account.. windows will create a new admin one..

great stuff for windows.. i love them for that since i can logged in anycomputer without knowing the admin logins...

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if a computer uses DNS or active directory.. then this may not work.. depending on how good the system admin is.. but this does not mean that it is impossible to create new admins if a password is forgotten on a DNS controlled computer station... it is windows anyway.. 1001 loop holes..

Most interesting.. frankly, it seems dangerous for systems to be accessable so easily. What is very likely though is that such an access method is meant to be solely for the more technically capable and must have been instituted so that specialists etc can retrieve information from systems that have locked out their owners - wo may have forgotten their passwords.

All in all, general knowledge of this method (and it has not been tried by myself as yet so I really can't verify it's mechanism), is a dangerous thing since everyone in corporate environments may go about entering other people's systems without authorization.

Must give this a shot to veify. Then I guess I'll have to figure out how to circumvent this method.

I completely agree with vortex. and BoozKer... I can't understand a reason your Windows behaves that way. And yeah. As far as my windows version and SP is concerned, I am running Windows XP - SP-2 updating my computer moment to moment and I tried it yet again dude, but nothing happened! Strange it works for you!

As vhortex explained it is F11 and make sure you press it before the windows screen and just keep pressing it until you see something different then you normally see. Everything he just explained is 100% true and this should work for your guy's computers unless a virus, or some other software prevents it.

Has anyone else had trouble with this? Make sure to read everything!

Indeed, but this depends on how good the admin is. If the admin is really careful, employees probably won't be able to gain restricted access. If the admin is an idiot...well, then no guarantees.

I would try this, as I want to download IE6 and be able to read/write Chinese on my computer. But I have Windows 2000, so I don't know if this will actually work. I suppose I could always just ask the admin (my dad), since it's not like I'm doing anything illegal. But he's not anywhere within reach. XD

You talking about OS Security ? Try Windows softwares instead .. D'load the Windows Defender .. now if u try the update site its a no no from windows update IF you have a dupe copy of OS, but incase u get hold of a free d'load off the net .. when u try to install .. it will tell u that ur windows is dupe .. To get this working .. all you have to do is d'load a dis-assembler .. change a value .. and woot .. ur ready to install defender on ur PC .. and its not just for Defender .. every single software of windows that has a Copyright check is crackable ..

Now tell me .. Does windows really want us to use its softwares or does it just need more users ? Monopoly is one thing, but purposely letting loopholes stay there even after 5 months of a sotware update is just plain crazy and desperate. Wish the Linux bots overtook the world

Regards
Dhanesh.