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So I have a friends Vista (Basic!!!WTF?) laptop. She gave it to me because she forgot her password. It's a perfectly fine, working condition machine, and even has a working guest account. I want to crack her admin level account password, rather than resetting it, mostly because i've not done it before. Ophcrack live gives blinking _, even after using several different iso writers. It's possible that the op drive doesn't work. I haven't tried a bootable USB for ophcrack.

Should I try a bootable USB (something which I will have to learn to do)? Should I use something else to crack the password? Should I forget it and just reset the damn thing? Congrats for coming this far, considering all of the other threads and google results already in existence. Ten dollars to the paypal account of the first person to give me exact specific instructions that result in me knowing the password without spending any more than the ten dollars ill give you, or more than about an hour. By the way, I am a grown man with self respect, and so I have no desire to steal anything, much less a Vista password that I would just as soon smash with my TIBAR (if only it physically existed!). When I said that I have a friends computer to crack her password, it's because she gave it to me and asked me to crack her password.

I think this is gonna be fun! Update: Optical drive does not work. Another update: Just realized I should have titled this thread 'Ophcrack LIVE no go'. My suggestion is to just reset that password. While you could crack it it will probably take a long time. You could burn i to a live usb () but i would suggest stealing the password hash and then running it on a more powerful machine maybe amazon cloud?

The password is very likely to be a very short, all under case, common word. Besides, I don't mind if it takes a week to crack, as long as I can get it going soon. I considered copying the hash file to a better computer, but I don't know how to retrieve the password hash from a Vista machine, and without administrator privileges. If I did know how, I would not know (though I'm pretty sure I could learn pretty easily) how to apply the has file to a password cracker. Explain the technique/procedure and, if I decide to use it and it works, I will give you ten dollars.

I don't want your money, I just would like you to do your own research. Ubiquiti Sr71 E Driver more. If you want to boot USB drives I would recommend unetbootin for windows. Download the program, run it, set the operating system to download ophcrack, it will then download and install the ISO onto the USB drive and set up a syslinux file.

Once it's done it will ask for a reboot and then you will go into ophcrack and recover the passwd. Shimmering Isles Unofficial Patch on this page. Next time go on google, if your a grown man you should be able to do this for yourself. I sense an 'I'm better than you' attitude. When is the last time you offered to pay someone on a forum for helping you? You have only stated obvious instructions that I have been familiarized with thousands of times. If you assume that I haven't been on google, you must be an idiot. As far as your comment on me being a grown man; if you were standing in front of me I would smack the shit out of you.