How to Hack Windows Password (10 working methods) 2020

There is quite a lot of websites claiming that claim that they know how to hack Windows password. So today, we have gathered the top 10 working methods or call them hacks to hack the windows passwords and also to reset windows passwords.

This method may or may not require any third-party applications to hack windows account passwords in some cases but all are working perfectly at the time I am writing this article.

Many will continue to work since hacking windows’ passwords core principles do not change. So without any further due, let us get on the list. Before that, I would like to mention that the third-party applications which are mentioned in the methods below are free of cost so it will not cost you a dime. So do try’em out.

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Hack 1:  The CMD STICKY KEY SWITCH to Hack Windows Password

This is an excellent method that works on all versions of Windows starting from Windows XP to Windows 10.  It’s tough to imagine why windows didn’t fix this bug. But you guys might find it a lot useful when hacking a windows system password.

Things you’ll need-

1) Any Linux Distro which you can live BOOT using pen drive (USB) or CD.

2) Basic knowledge of using CMD (command prompt)

So, let’s get started.

1)Insert your Bootable device and boot into the Linux distro  [You may need to turn off the safe boot and secure boot in UEFI BIOS settings]

2) Now locate the drive where Windows is installed, which is the C drive(by default). Go to Windows/system32 folder.

3)You have to find a file named ‘cmd.exe’ and rename it to ‘cmd0.exe.’

4)Next, you have to find another file by the name ‘sethc.exe’ [AKA “sticky keys”] Rename sethc.exe to cmd.exe.

5)And then finally, rename cmd0.exe to sethc.exe. [ Basically, what you are doing is swapping the sticky keys program with Command Prompt program (CMD). So whenever the Sticky Keys program is executed, it runs CMD and vice versa. Sticky keys are triggered when you press SHIFT key 5-6 times]

5) Great once that is done! Shutdown, the system, remove the bootable media and boot into Windows OS.

6) Now that you are on the login screen. Press shift key five or six times.

7) The command prompt will open up (Note: It’s a system32 command prompt if you don`t know what it means when it’s merely a command prompt with administrative access).

8)Type this without quotes and hit enter.

“net user.”

9) You can now see the list of active accounts [User Names] in the PC. Make a note of the Account Name you intend to hack. That is your victim account.

9) Now type the following command and hit enter.

"net user <space><Account Name><space> *"

*Account name= victims account name

*space= actual space by pressing spacebar

E.g., net user nightfury *

8)It will display a prompt you to ‘enter the new password.’ Enter any new password and confirm. To remove password, leave it blank.

And Viola. You’re Done! You can log in with the new password now. This is one of the most popular ways to hack windows account password.

Note: Don’t forget to Change back sethc.exe to cmd.exe afterward. 

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Hack 2:  Using the Onscreen keyboard as a switch to Hack Windows Password

To hack windows account using this method you need to make a windows bootable CD or Pen drive

Start your computer and enter into Bios Setup. Change your boot preferences to boot from DVD or USB PENDRIVE.  Then click on Next

Now select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner.

Then click on Troubleshoot option> advanced options >command prompt

Now you have to copy the command prompt executable (cmd.exe) and replace the On-Screen keyboard (osk.exe) executable.

Use the following command

copy c:\windows\system\32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\osk.exe

Once this is done, you can now reboot the PC.

Resetting the Password

Once you get to the login screen, click on On-Screen Keyboard, and you’ll see an administrator mode command prompt.

Type this without quotes and hit enter.

"net user."

You can now see the list of active accounts [User Names] in the PC. Make a note of the Account Name you intend to hack. That is your victim account.

Now type the following command and hit enter.
"net user <space><Account Name><space> *"

*Account name= victims account name

*space= actual space by pressing spacebar

E.g.: net user nightfury *

And voila, you have successfully learned hacking windows passwords.

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Also read: How to guess the password of any account using social engineering.

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Hack 3: Automated password reset Tools

The more user-friendly option is to reset the password using the password recovery tool for resetting the windows password.

Step 1: Download a password reset tool on a different Pc and make a bootable DVD or pen drive. It will be your password reset disk for windows

Step 2: Once the bootable device is ready, you have to change the boot order so that the system boots from your password reset disk instead of the Windows installation files that are on your hard drive.

Step 3: Once that is done, you need to select the right Windows version and the user account that you want to reset or hack. Click on ‘Reset Password’ to hack and blank the Windows 10 password. Now click on the restart and now when the system restarts the account will be unlocked as it has no password.

Different Tools for resetting passwords:

1. Passcape password recovery
2. Softappsbase windows password recovery tool
3. Androidphonesoft windows password recovery tool
4. Tunesbro win Geeker password recovery

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Hack 4: Lazagne Tool hack

The LaZagne project is an open-source application used to retrieve lots of passwords stored on a local computer. Each software stores its passwords using different techniques (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.). This tool has been developed to find these passwords for the most commonly-used software. This method has also proven to be effective for resetting the windows password.

Main release: Lazagne

Commands Used:

• Launch all modules

laZagne.exe all

• Launch only a specific module

laZagne.exe browsers

• Launch only a particular software script

laZagne.exe browsers -firefox

• Write all passwords found into a file (-oN for Normal txt, -oJ for Json, -oA for All).

laZagne.exe all -oN
laZagne.exe all -oA -output C:\Users\test\Desktop

laZagne.exe all -password ZapataVive

Using this tool, we can quickly recover the password for a windows system. We do need existing admin privileges to access other people`s account.

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Hack 5: John, the ripper

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS (the latter requires a contributed patch). Its primary purpose is to detect weak passwords.

It is available in Kali Linux by default.

To run John, you need to supply it with some password files and optionally specify a cracking mode, like this, using the default order of methods and assuming that “passwd” is a copy of your password file:

	john passwd

or, to restrict it to the wordlist mode only, but permitting the use of word mangling rules:

	john --wordlist=password.lst --rules passwd

Cracked passwords will be printed to the terminal and saved in the file called $HOME/john.pot, which directory it depends on how you installed John). The $HOME/john.pot file is also used not to load password hashes that you already cracked when you run John the next time.

To retrieve the cracked passwords, run:

	john --show passwd

This Hacking password cracking Tool is one of the most used tools for cracking Windows account passwords.

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Hack 6: Hacking Windows Sam files

Step 1) Live Boot from a bootable Kali Linux disk.

Step 2) Login to Kali Linux and open terminal.

Step3) First, we have to mount the hard drive partition that has the Windows installation:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/

Step 4) Change to the main directory that the SAM file is in so that we can prepare to modify its contents.
cd /mnt//Windows/System32/config

Step 5) List the users on the computer contained in the SAM file using the following command.
chntpw -l SAM

Step 6) Change a specific user account password.
chntpw -u USERNAME SAM

Step 7) Now, let’s unmount the drive and boot from Windows to use the updated or cleared password.
umount /dev/sda1

Step 8) Reboot to windows and enjoy the admin passwords and login.

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Hack 7:  Trinity rescue kit

Trinity Rescue Kit is also an automated windows password cracking tool. You have to make a bootable CD by going to their website and downloading the latest version to create a bootable CD.

Step 1: Download the tool on a different PC and make a bootable DVD or pen drive.

Step 2: Once the bootable device is ready, you have to change the boot order so that the system boots from your password reset disk instead of the Windows installation files that are on your hard drive.

Step 3: Once that is done, you need to select the right option for resetting windows password, as shown below.

Congrats, you have successfully hacked windows password.

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Hack 8: Kon boot

KON-BOOT is also an automated windows password cracking tool. You have to make a bootable CD by going to their website. It is an ancient tool now, but it used to be used quite a lot before.

Step 1: Download the tool on a different PC and make a bootable DVD or pen drive.

Step 2: Once the bootable device is ready, you have to change the boot order so that the system boots from your password reset disk instead of the Windows installation files that are on your hard drive.

Step 3: Once that is done, you need to select the right option for resetting windows password. Read the instructions on the screen carefully.

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Hack 9: Offline Nt registry editor (Now chntpwn)

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (ONTP&RE) works differently than most password recovery tools. The reason being that it erases your Windows password instead of recovering it. You can think of it as more of a Windows password clearing tool.

Steps are the same as most password recovery tools.

Step 1: Download the tool on a different PC and make a bootable DVD or pen drive.

Step 2: When the bootable device is ready, you have to change the boot order so that the system boots from your password reset disk instead of the Windows installation files that are on your hard drive.

Step 3: Once that is done, you need to select the right option for resetting windows password. Read the instructions on the screen carefully.

Note: This tool is entirely based on the command line be careful to read what you are doing. It has no GUI so you might get confused. Read the instructions on the screen carefully.

This is one of the most strong password cracking tools available on the internet.

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Hack (10) Ophcrack :

The Ophcrack Windows password cracker is by far the best freeware Windows password cracking tool available. It only needs basic knowledge, and most of it is automated. With Ophcrack, you don’t need any access to Windows to be able to recover your lost passwords.

Step 1: Download the tool on a different PC and make a bootable DVD or pen drive.

Step 2: When the bootable device is ready, you have to change the boot order so that the system boots from your password reset disk instead of the Windows installation files that are on your hard drive.

Step 3: Once that is done, you need to select the right option for resetting windows password. Read the instructions on the screen carefully.

The Ophcrack program starts by locating the Windows user accounts and proceeds to recover (crack) the passwords automatically.

In a self-test on a Windows 10 PC, Ophcrack recovered the 8-character password (mixed letters and numbers) to my administrator account in 3 minutes

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You have learned the top 10 ways of hacking windows passwords with ease. Thanks for reading the article. You can use the same hacks to hack Windows account passwords and even hack Windows 8 admin passwords.

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