How to Crack a Windows 7 Password

Sometimes you forget your password, but luckily it's not the end of the world. With a few tricks, you can change the password for any Windows 7 user account on any computer. All you'll need is a Windows 7 installation disc, which you can make yourself for free.

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Find or create a Windows 7 installation disc. In order to crack user passwords, you'll need to boot from a Windows 7 installation disc. There are a couple of ways that you can go about getting one:^{[1]XResearch source}
- Any Windows 7 installation disc will work, so you may be able to borrow or find one.
- You can download a Windows 7 ISO and burn it to a disc to create your own installation disc. You can download the ISO legally from Microsoft here, if you have a product key. You can also download the ISO from various torrent sites. Burn the ISO to a blank DVD by right-clicking on it and selecting "Burn to Disc" (Windows 7 later). See How to Create a Recovery Disc in Windows 7 for more details.
You'll be booting from the installation disc instead of loading Windows 7 as usual.
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Press the key to enter the computer's BIOS or BOOT menu. This key varies depending on your computer's manufacturer. The key will be displayed on the screen that appears as the computer first boots up. You'll need to press this key before Windows loads. Loading the BOOT menu directly instead of the BIOS menu will be quicker, but not all computers support this.
- Common keys include F2, F10, F11, or Del.
If you loaded directly to the boot menu, select the drive that contains the Windows 7 installation disc. If you loaded to the BIOS menu, navigate to the BOOT section using the keyboard and then change the boot order so that the drive containing the Windows 7 installation disc is listed first.
If you were in the BIOS, save your changes and exit to reboot the computer and boot from the installation disc. Press any key when prompted to start Windows Setup.
In the first screen that appears, you'll be asked to set your language and input options. You can usually leave everything at the default settings.
Instead of clicking "Install now" to start the Windows 7 installation, click the "Repair your computer" button in the bottom-left corner of the window.
These are all of the operating systems installed on the computer. Most computers will only have one operating system listed here.
This will launch the Command Prompt.
The following four commands will allow you to access the Command Prompt from the Windows Login screen. This will let you reset the passwords once Windows has loaded. Enter each of these commands, in order, pressing ↵ Enter after each one:
C:\
cd windows\system32
ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.bak
copy cmd.exe utilman.exe
Allow Windows 7 to load as it normally would.
⊞ Win+U on the Windows Login screen to open the Command Prompt. This would normally load the Accessibility Manager, but the commands you entered earlier renamed the programs so that the Command Prompt loads instead.
net user and press ↵ Enter to display the list of user names. All of the users on the computer will be displayed.
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Change the password for the account you want to access. You can use the net user command to change any user's password to whatever you'd like. Type the following command and press ↵ Enter, replacing username with the user you want to crack. If the username has a space in it, surround it in quotes. Enter the new password twice when prompted.
- net user username *
- For example, to change the user John Everyman's password, you would type net user "John Everyman" * and press ↵ Enter.
After changing the password in the Command Prompt, you can immediately use the new password to log in on the Windows Login screen. Just select the user that you changed the password for and then enter the new password.
Now that you've changed the password and successfully logged in, you'll want to revert utilman.exe to its original state in case someone needs the Accessibility Center. Open the Command Prompt from the Start menu and perform the following commands in order:^{[2]XResearch source}
C:\
cd windows\system32
del utilman.exe
ren utilman.exe.bak utilman.exe

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What if I don't have a Windows 7 repair disk?
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There are instructions included to make your own Windows 7 install disk.
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How can I reset the password if there are multiple users?
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You'll want to reset the Admin password. From the Admin account, you can then add and remove users at will.
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Use Metasploit or Kali Linux.
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