window 2000 professional forgot password

If you are locked out of the local SAM database, then you are out of luck and will have to reinstall the OS completely. You may be able to find password cracking utilities out there, but I have found them seldom to work and they are usually good for the older NT4 systems that had flaky SAM security at best.

We are constantly getting requests for such assistance, many of them from dubious sources, and have no way to determine whether or not the supplicant is truly one authorized to have access to the machine in question.

Therefore, the best advice would be for you to contact the vendor from whom the machine was purchased for assistance.

The is some good third sofware party that you can uses but it cost a lot of money.

You can take a look @ http://blogs.codes-sources.com/fabienfs/archive/2007/04/12/erd-commander-2005-filerestore-crash-analyser-file-repaire-locksmith.aspx

I have been having a conversation about that offline with someone. I don't know if prefers to be anonymous but I will leave his name off in case. His email to me was very thoughtful, considerate, and appreciated. He wanted to express concern, without publicly berating me. He has given me much to think about, but I am still of two minds on the subject of offering assistance. Don't know if it will work, but I will try and post the dialoge below...
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Sorry if my reply seemed defensive. It was not meant to in any way. I recognized your VERY mature and reasonable efforts to express concern about my post, and I sincerely appreciated it. I did not feel at all that you were being confrontational, nor did I intend my response to be confrontational.

I simply wanted to express to you that I see your point, but I also see another side to it as well. My response was more me talking it out in my mind than anything. And I am still of two minds about it. Certainly I don?t want to help criminals. But I don?t want to assume criminal intent either. If the good guys don?t help, sooner or later they will find a bad guy who will, seems it would be better if they had good mentors?

Anyway, my comment that I would consider it carefully was sincere. It was not a dismissal. In fact I have thought about it quite a bit this week, and will likely continue to do so for some time yet.

Thanks,
Ed

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And to answer,
I was not trying to attack or insinuate a bad doing, just a better way to do it. I used to do the same thing in the past, but several other TR members got me to 'see the light'...
And yes, I too remember reading about the Linux Boot Disk a long time ago, and still use it to this day without violating ethics.

Unfortunately, there has been a rash of people creating new accounts, and asking in a first post, how to crack a PW, obtain admin access (for legitimate or not reasons), or how to change yahoo/MSN PWD's.

Now though, even if they sound legit, I do not want to be responsible for someone doing illegal acts. 1 of the members that got on my case was a retired police officer who informed me that I can be convicted as well, for giving out this information.

For now, however, I just wanted to inform you that it is not the best idea to point to cracking tools, even if it sounds like a legitimate reason. And, these are cracking tools. However, for paid ones like ERD commander, it is still OK, because legitimate businesses sell it and it is expensive.

I took it off line as to not be confrontational, but more as a friendly way to do it. My goal is not to humiliate or attack you online, merely to mention my concerns in this matter. Ultimately, it is up to you to decide how to handle these in the future.

I saw that you are a long time member, so I decided to peer you about this. If you were a short term member replying with direct cracks, more likely I would have marked as spam and put in a nasty post.

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First, I should point out, the link I suggested is NOT a password
cracker. It does not recover passwords. Nor can it be used for remote
attacks. It is a Linux based boot disk, which can edit the NT registry,
and - among other things - reset the admin password in the local SAM.

Second, I understand your concern. It is certainly a valid one.

On the other hand, I remember the first time I found myself as a young
tech tasked with regaining access to a system. I worked for a small
company in a small town, in which I - inexperienced as I was - was the
only IT resource. I called MS for help - they told me my only option was
to format the drive. I searched frantically, but only found expensive
commercial solutions for which there was no budget, or tools of the
truly black-hat persuasion. I was fortunate enough that someone took a
chance and pointed me to this particular tool.

In retrospect, perhaps the individual should be questioned first, to
determine the circumstances that caused the need for such a tool (though
they could be lying, so that may or may not be effective).

I do see you point though, and I will consider it carefully.

Thanks,

Ed

please sir , give easy and simple notes on the password cracking . please sir it is used for the good purpose only .