Hi, I am wanting to know how to find out what the administrator password is for my computer.
It is running Win7 home premium, 32bit, and i don't have any administrative rights whatsoever.
The reason why I am wanting the Administrator account, is because at school, I am in a laptop program. In the program, we are given our own laptop to use for our school work (we all pay 100% for the PC's). I had an Administrator account on my PC, with ALL my school work, and a couple of other important files, But I unknowingly got that account disabled by the school technicians (When trying to log on, it says Log on failure: user is currently disabled)
I have spoken to the school technicians, and they say I am not old enough for administrative rights, despite being 16...
Please help me out, I really need to find out the administrator password WITHOUT changing it.
What if you boot from a Linux CD/DVD and get the files off that way? Then you can just use the Limited account (or whatever Windows 7 calls non-administrator accounts).
There are supposably ways to reset administrative passwords, but linking to those isn't allowed here, and I highly doubt any of them will work for your particular usage case.
Why not take the advice you've been given and try booting with a linux disk? All you really need are a few files, I believe a Ubuntu LiveCD would be the perfect solution. Burn a CD (or set up a LiveUSB), boot from it, find your files with the Ubuntu desktop GUI, upload them to dropbox (or move them to the correct position on your hard drive, or even onto a USB or network drive), log out, eject the LiveCD/LiveUSB, boot back into Windows, and either use or download your files (depending on how you recovered them). It's a non-intrusive and perfectly safe way to access your files, it won't alert or **** off your network admins, you won't need to bug them for access, and you can do it quickly and easily.
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This certainly isn't practical, but you could boot up from Linux CD, mount the Windows partition, obtain the SAM file (where Windows password hashes are stored), and spend a very long time brute-forcing the password out of it.
This is the best solution..........
Although it might take upwards of 3-4 years or more.
Give that a whirl... oh, and if you cant access the cmd prompt, just use MSpaint to gain access.
Adding users requires administrator permissions, which in this case requires an elevated command prompt. Giving another user admin permission requires admin permission as well.
Additionally, Preventing cmd.exe from running is a group policy, which is checked by command prompt itself. Running cmd.exe using another program does not disable that logic.
Just boot one of those password reset discs and reset the local admin password. If they ask later why they cannot get in say "hey, don't ask me. you didn't give me the password, so how could I have logged in and changed it?"
Bah, he's 16.. now's the time to raise hell, while being a minor and able get away with it
Schools are more lawsuit (yes really, this doesn't seem to be a US thing any more either) and punish happy now than they were only just a few years ago.
totally off-topic. But when did you retire from being a mod?
Couple days ago, see profile.
on another note, cracking an administrators password on a school computer isn't go to help a whole lot if its actually in a properly setup AD Forest/Domain.
This is actually what I was kind of getting at, depending on their setup, getting rid of what is on there in terms of users/passwords might make the computer unusable to some degree.
Honestly I don't even know why people help with these threads, it's like someone asking how to pick a lock and saying it's to get in their house.
A. How do you know it is?
B. Even if its legit, he's just going to get himself in major trouble.
A. Don't care
B. Don't care
That's pretty much it. I don't mind sharing knowledge; if someone shoots themselves in the foot with it that's on them heh. I got caught doing essentially the same thing at my school with their SysV server. Computer lab teacher walked away from the console logged in as root so I reset his password. It took three days before they had it back, not very swift lol. All I got was suspended. Which doesn't make sense to me anyway; they told me that for a week I'm not to come to school. Spend a week playing games and riding my bike instead of being in school... that is punishment?? lol
Of course, fm's point is valid. Times may have changed, as this happened twenty-two years ago
That's pretty much it. I don't mind sharing knowledge; if someone shoots themselves in the foot with it that's on them heh. I got caught doing essentially the same thing at my school with their SysV server. Computer lab teacher walked away from the console logged in as root so I reset his password. It took three days before they had it back, not very swift lol. All I got was suspended. Which doesn't make sense to me anyway; they told me that for a week I'm not to come to school. Spend a week playing games and riding my bike instead of being in school... that is punishment?? lol
Of course, fm's point is valid. Times may have changed, as this happened twenty-two years ago
Okay so you're willingly ignorant, that's nice.
You know my post was under the assumption that someone had moral fiber(like we hope to assume most people do), if you don't then obviously who cares. Doesn't apply to you.
If it's really just a kid screwing with the school computer I doubt they would do much but they are perfectly allowed to bring legal trouble about from it, if not towards the kid then towards his family due to them being the guardians.
You know my post was under the assumption that someone had moral fiber(like we hope to assume most people do), if you don't then obviously who cares. Doesn't apply to you.
If it's really just a kid screwing with the school computer I doubt they would do much but they are perfectly allowed to bring legal trouble about from it, if not towards the kid then towards his family due to them being the guardians.
lol, such a drama queen. I just think you're blowing it out of proportion. It's not like the kid is considering murdering someone. Also, I don't know how it works in Australia, but over here parental vicarious liability is pretty limited.
I am wanting to know how to find out what the administrator password is for my computer.
It is running Win7 home premium, 32bit, and i don't have any administrative rights whatsoever.
The reason why I am wanting the Administrator account, is because at school, I am in a laptop program. In the program, we are given our own laptop to use for our school work (we all pay 100% for the PC's). I had an Administrator account on my PC, with ALL my school work, and a couple of other important files, But I unknowingly got that account disabled by the school technicians (When trying to log on, it says Log on failure: user is currently disabled)
I have spoken to the school technicians, and they say I am not old enough for administrative rights, despite being 16...
Please help me out, I really need to find out the administrator password WITHOUT changing it.
Thanks
Is there a way by using some sort of boot CD, that it just displays the Admin password?
I cannot do any full resets - nor do I want to, because I'm listed on the computer as a User... Nothing special...
And I do want to recover the work and files, But I want Administrative rights just as much.
I know how to change what group I'm in, but when I click it, it asks for me to input an Administrator password.
Thanks again
This is why it is a password. To protect the contents of the computer. It can't just be bypassed like that.
Just boot from a live CD and get the files off, you should be able to take ownership of them once they are on your computer.
You cannot make yourself an administrator.
Why not take the advice you've been given and try booting with a linux disk? All you really need are a few files, I believe a Ubuntu LiveCD would be the perfect solution. Burn a CD (or set up a LiveUSB), boot from it, find your files with the Ubuntu desktop GUI, upload them to dropbox (or move them to the correct position on your hard drive, or even onto a USB or network drive), log out, eject the LiveCD/LiveUSB, boot back into Windows, and either use or download your files (depending on how you recovered them). It's a non-intrusive and perfectly safe way to access your files, it won't alert or **** off your network admins, you won't need to bug them for access, and you can do it quickly and easily.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." — Robert Heinlein
Although it might take upwards of 3-4 years or more.
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread16618.html
Give that a whirl... oh, and if you cant access the cmd prompt, just use MSpaint to gain access.
Adding users requires administrator permissions, which in this case requires an elevated command prompt. Giving another user admin permission requires admin permission as well.
Additionally, Preventing cmd.exe from running is a group policy, which is checked by command prompt itself. Running cmd.exe using another program does not disable that logic.
If you paid for the PC though, you deserve 100% to have administrative rights, demand that they either give them to you or ask for a refund.
OP, you will get in pretty deep trouble if you screw any of this up. Just leave it alone.
This. I use it when my friends forget their passwords on the computers.
Bah, he's 16.. now's the time to raise hell, while being a minor and able get away with it
Not a good idea.
This is actually what I was kind of getting at, depending on their setup, getting rid of what is on there in terms of users/passwords might make the computer unusable to some degree.
Not worth it.
A. How do you know it is?
B. Even if its legit, he's just going to get himself in major trouble.
But even after his explaining, it isn't his computer.
A. Don't care
B. Don't care
That's pretty much it. I don't mind sharing knowledge; if someone shoots themselves in the foot with it that's on them heh. I got caught doing essentially the same thing at my school with their SysV server. Computer lab teacher walked away from the console logged in as root so I reset his password. It took three days before they had it back, not very swift lol. All I got was suspended. Which doesn't make sense to me anyway; they told me that for a week I'm not to come to school. Spend a week playing games and riding my bike instead of being in school... that is punishment?? lol
Of course, fm's point is valid. Times may have changed, as this happened twenty-two years ago
Okay so you're willingly ignorant, that's nice.
You know my post was under the assumption that someone had moral fiber(like we hope to assume most people do), if you don't then obviously who cares. Doesn't apply to you.
If it's really just a kid screwing with the school computer I doubt they would do much but they are perfectly allowed to bring legal trouble about from it, if not towards the kid then towards his family due to them being the guardians.
lol, such a drama queen. I just think you're blowing it out of proportion. It's not like the kid is considering murdering someone. Also, I don't know how it works in Australia, but over here parental vicarious liability is pretty limited.